Help putting together a transport

I am new here....I'm BindiCat1, and I have some cats that need to come to Missouri from SPALDING GA area. They are TERRIBLY overwhelmed right now , as many places are, with mommas and kittens. I have several that are ready for transport...BUT this is new to me, and I'm not quite sure how to go about setting up a transport.

ANYTHING, and EVERYTHING anyone can suggest, WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!

Thanks so much, and god bless all you lovely animal loving people out there!!!

Bindi

I have participated in cross country transports before, but have never initiated one, so I'm not real sure how they set them up. But, I think what you want to do is plan a route from Spalding to St. Charles and then come up with stops about every 120 to 200 miles. Then, contact rescue groups and humane societies along that route to ask for volunteers to take a leg or two of the drive.

One of the transports I helped with I learned about here on The Cat Site. The others have been through e-mail notifications I received from my local Humane Society.

I hope this helped!

Keep us posted on how it is going.

I found this list of rescue transport groups on the Best Friends web page:

Volunteer transport services:
Acme Pet Transport: http://www.acmepettransport.com
Arizona Animal Rescue Coalition: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/azarc
Basenji Rescue & Transport: http://www.basenjirescue.org/
Basset Hounds: http://www.dailydrool.com/raa/home.html
California Rescue Railroad: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CaRescueRR
Canine Underground Railroad:
http://members.aol.com/paladin003/sanctuary/cur.html
Dog Rescue Railroad: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Dog_Rescue_RailRoad
DOTS (Dalmatian Overland Transport Service):
http://www.dalrescue.com/dots-signup.html
Heart Bandits - Eskie Railroad:
http://www.heartbandits.com/pages/railroad.html
IMOM Express: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IMOM-xpress
Lab-Links: http://www.lab-links.com/transport.htm
Meezer Express: http://www.siameserescue.org/express.html
Operation Roger: http://truckers4truckers.com/phpBB/index.php
Rescue Angels on Wheels: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RescueAngelsonWheels
Rescue Transport: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RescueTransport
Rolling Rescue: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rollingrescue
Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TX-NM-...l-transporters
TRAIN (Transporting & Rescuing Animals In Need): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/train_transport_rescue/
Truck-n-Paws: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TRUCK-N-PAWS

Volunteer air transport:
FlyDogs: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flydogs

Volunteer Assistance for transports of adopted pets from war-torn countries:

Military Mascots helps arrange transport for animals adopted by soldiers on duty in foreign countries:

E-mail: [email protected]

Website: www.militarymascots.org


Local pet transport services:

Many cities have “pet taxi†businesses that transport pets locally. Try searching on Yahoo.com or another search engine for services in your area.


Paid moving companies:
Pro-Pet Transports: http://www.pro-pet-transports.com
PetTransporter.com: http://www.pettransporter.com

Paid air transport:
The Independent Pet and Animal Transportation Association International, Inc. (IPATA) has a list of companies that assist with air transport on their website, at this link: http://www.ipata.com/page.php?rp=2


Informational sites:
Links: http://www.wonderpuppy.net/rescue.htm#boards
Rescue Assistance: http://www.caryn.com/francis/discussion/rescue.html
Shipping Cats Domestically:
http://www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/4114/shipping.html
IPATA International: http://www.ipata.com/page.php?rp=9

Also you can try http://groups.yahoo.com/group/billyboard. This group specializes in transports for the Spalding County Animal Shelter. They should be able to help. I have no experience with them, but just found the group listed on Spalding's petfinder bio here. Also there are several yahoo groups dedicated to transports you may want to look into.