Dr. Brian Rambarran, a urologist based in Buffalo, who helps dogs from being killed by airlifting them from animal shelters to foster homes.

Urologist and pilot Brian Rambarran volunteers his time flying across the U.S. to give dogs a second leash on life.

Dr. Brian Rambarran, a urologist based in Buffalo, who helps dogs from being killed by airlifting them from animal shelters to foster homes.

Dr. Brian Rambarran, a urologist based in Buffalo, who helps dogs from being killed by airlifting them from animal shelters to foster homes.

Plus, he’d been volunteering since he was 14, serving as a candy striper at a hospital. So, saving dogs and other animals was a perfect volunteer role. In 2012, Rambarran completed his first rescue ...

Lucchese is not the world’s cutest dog. Picked up as a stray somewhere in Texas, he is scruffy and, as one person aptly observed online, looks a little like Steve Buscemi. (It’s the eyes.) ...