volenteers - dog rescue transport

[BFH44]

Hello to all - anyone who really really like dogs and is willing to spend an hour or two on a weekend saving some dogs from being put to sleep and help them get to a new home or at least a safe place - and lives in a drivable distance to the I-95 corridor.

also we need drivers through eastern Tennessee and western side of Virgina along I-81 corridor heading to New Jersey to a no-kill shelter - the Last Resort

The Last Resort is a no kill rescue who pulls their dogs from high kill shelters

http://www.thelastresortrescue.com/ouravailablepets.htm

Post transports start in Georgia or South Carolina and go as far as Connecticut - it is somewhat like the underground railroad except not secret

Emails go out to anyone and everyone on the list the drives are divided into approximately one hour legs, usually one or two cars sometime three vehicles per leg. Drivers pick the leg or legs of the journey they want to drive and email back with driver and vehical info and the list gioes out
example =
LEG 2 Thanks Cynthia!!

Driver Two Thanks Lisa!! (Bonnie, Bindi,)

Driver Three Thanks Becki!!

Spartanburg, SC to Charlotte, NC 75 miles 1 hr 20 min

8:25am - 9:45am

Allie, Kendall, Sadie and Bleu to hop on in Charlotte

LEG 3 Thanks Trish and Steve!!
Driver Two Thanks Marsha and Bo!!

Charlotte,NC to Greensboro, NC 93 miles 1 hr/30 mins

10:00 am to 11:30 am

PASSENGERS TO BE FED IN GREENSBORO

LEG 4 Thanks Trish and Steve!!
Driver Two Thanks Marsha and Bo!!

Greensboro,NC to Durham,NC 83 miles 1 hr 10 minutes

11:50am-1:00pm

Meeting at predetermined drop off spots the dogs get a chance to walk; potty and drink some water, switch cars and handover paperwork (all dogs have health cert. etc etc ; then load up and go to next spot.

Volunteers may have one to three dogs depending on your vehicle type. Usually crates are needed; sometimes they are provided but most drivers keep a few on hand.

I personally don’t use crates unless I have to (but I always keep two in the van just in case) some are quarantined or have aggression issues with the other dogs - also there is always a flight risk.

All the dogs have been on death row in a shelter and are on their way to permanent adopted homes foster homes or no kill shelters. Many of them are skittish or downright scared; but usually very grateful. Even the ones that have been abused or whatever type of trauma no matter how skittish some may be It always seems like they know you are trying to help them.

Puppies have to be kept in crates due to health risks so they are removed only to replace newspapers and poop in the crates.

Anyone interested please email me at ericthered@inbox.com or ericvangeletti@gmail.com and i can get you all the info you need and explain further.

or you can check out http://www.freedomtraintransports.com/

There are several other transport groups not so well known. I can get you email dresses and areas of operation if you are interested.

there are other organizations of the same type all across the US but i only work mainly in the east, if you want info for other parts of the country i can help with that as well.

I hope this is not inappropriate to post here - I just noticed that there seem to be a lot of people here that love dogs

Its one of the most rewarding things i have ever been involved in.

so if your bored on the weekends and love dogs and well you get the idea

Thank you for tolerating the long winded post- Eric

 

[MacHete]

Love what you're doin' Eric! :thumbup:

Thank you!

 

[BFH44]

Thanks - I know there are a lot of Dog lovers here so I thought some people might like it.

It is very rewarding work but it can also be sad - just this week my friend was trying to get a boxer girl to a new home; but wasn't able to get the information together fast enough and she was put to sleep. There are just so many.

A lot of the problem is because there are just that so many people don't spay or neuter and the population is out of control - it is estimated that even if every household in America took in at least one shelter dog there would still have to put a million or so to sleep. I think the current estimate is that 4 million dogs a year nationwide are put to sleep– that just staggers my mind.

There are a lot of volunteers and we do what we can, a friend if mine has a saying – “save one at a time till there are none that need saving” I try to keep my mind on that so I don’t get depressed about it all.

Well I said more than I planned to say.
I hope all is well for you and yours!
Eric

 

[BFH44]

pictures from Saturday - these guys are on their way to new homes they were scared but they were sweet hearts

 

[Shann]

You are doing great work. Thank you. If you ever need help in Vermont, let me know.

 

[BFH44]

That’s great at sometimes we do have transports going that far north, some even to Canada. I will send you a note if and when ones heading that way – thanks to all for the encouragement.

 

[b.c.molin]

I have never wished that I did not live where I do so much upon seeing those photo's ... I'd be helping come hell or high water if I was closer.

Will be looking at trying to help more in my local area.

Congrat's BFH44 to you and all those helping our canine companions.

 

[BFH44]

Shann --i do not know what part of vermont you are in but this came n this morning

PHOTO:

This page was last updated @ 9:10am on Tuesday, January 24, 2011



A "live" up-to-date version of this runsheet can be accessed online @ http://tinyurl.com/4f3mgmu

Please sign up as soon as possible. Still lots of legs that need to be filled.... /

Thank you!!!!


Katie Wehner
.....transport coordinator ~ Paws To The Rescue (PTTR)
katie_wehner @hotmail.com
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LEG #15C Hartford CT to Brattleboro, VT / -- miles / 45 minutes
4:00pm - 4:45pm

MCAS --- Three Cutiecockers-4ea*

***Driver #1 -- NEEDED***

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LEG #16C Brattleboro, VT to Deerfield, MA / 61 miles / 1 hour 5min
5:00 pm - 6:05 pm

MCAS --- Three Cutiecockers-4ea*

***Driver #1 -- NEEDED***
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LEG #17C Deerfield, MA to Plainfield, NH / 77 miles / 1 hour 24 min
6:20 pm - 7:45 pm

MCAS --- Three Cutiecockers-4ea*

***Driver #1 -- NEEDED***

Three Cutiecockers leave transport in Plainfield NH w/ White Mountain Rescue


Please sign up as soon as possible. Still lots of legs that need to be filled.... /

Thank you!!!!


Katie Wehner
.....transport coordinator ~ Paws To The Rescue (PTTR)
katie_wehner @hotmail.com

 

[Shann]

Shann --i do not know what part of vermont you are in but this came n this morning

PHOTO:

This page was last updated @ 9:10am on Tuesday, January 24, 2011



A "live" up-to-date version of this runsheet can be accessed online @ http://tinyurl.com/4f3mgmu

Please sign up as soon as possible. Still lots of legs that need to be filled.... /

Thank you!!!!


Katie Wehner
.....transport coordinator ~ Paws To The Rescue (PTTR)
katie_wehner @hotmail.com
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LEG #15C Hartford CT to Brattleboro, VT / -- miles / 45 minutes
4:00pm - 4:45pm

MCAS --- Three Cutiecockers-4ea*

***Driver #1 -- NEEDED***

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LEG #16C Brattleboro, VT to Deerfield, MA / 61 miles / 1 hour 5min
5:00 pm - 6:05 pm

MCAS --- Three Cutiecockers-4ea*

***Driver #1 -- NEEDED***
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LEG #17C Deerfield, MA to Plainfield, NH / 77 miles / 1 hour 24 min
6:20 pm - 7:45 pm

MCAS --- Three Cutiecockers-4ea*

***Driver #1 -- NEEDED***

Three Cutiecockers leave transport in Plainfield NH w/ White Mountain Rescue


Please sign up as soon as possible. Still lots of legs that need to be filled.... /

Thank you!!!!


Katie Wehner
.....transport coordinator ~ Paws To The Rescue (PTTR)
katie_wehner @hotmail.com

Hi: Can you help me interpret? Do they need a driver for Sunday? Bratt is over 2 hours from me but I might be able to help. I can't really interpret the chart; probably easy once you do it a few times.

 

[BFH44]

Saturday, January 29 & Sunday, January 30, 2011

these legs would be on Sunday


LEG #15C Hartford CT to Brattleboro, VT / -- miles / 45 minutes
4:00pm - 4:45pm

MCAS --- Three Cutiecockers-4ea*

***Driver #1 -- NEEDED***

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LEG #16C Brattleboro, VT to Deerfield, MA / 61 miles / 1 hour 5min
5:00 pm - 6:05 pm

MCAS --- Three Cutiecockers-4ea*

***Driver #1 -- NEEDED***
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LEG #17C Deerfield, MA to Plainfield, NH / 77 miles / 1 hour 24 min
6:20 pm - 7:45 pm

MCAS --- Three Cutiecockers-4ea*

***Driver #1 -- NEEDED***

contact -- Katie Wehner
.....transport coordinator ~ Paws To The Rescue (PTTR)
katie_wehner @hotmail.com

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contact

Katie Wehner
.....transport coordinator ~ Paws To The Rescue (PTTR)
katie_wehner @hotmail.com

If you email her she will get back to you with conformation (either yes or no depending on whether or not it has already been filled)

When you email saying you want to do it – she will need ; the leg you want to drive your name; your vehicle description and phone number –

If you are the first or most available volunteer she has in that area she will send you back conformation along with a “run sheet” then usually by Friday there will be a “final run sheet” – the same listing but were it says driver needed it will have names, contact information and vehicle descriptions for each driver –

I usually copy and paste the legs before me and ahead of me onto a word sheet and have a copy with me for the road

Once we get the final run sheet we call or email the other drivers before and ahead to pick out a meeting spot. (Usually and easy to find area just off the main road with a spot to walk the dogs) – if the other drivers are regular volunteers they usually have some place already picked out that are easy to locate and the other drivers can help you with it

Usually we try to be there a little bit early exchange paper work walk dogs let them have a little bit to drink and then on to the next stop.
The main thing is not letting the dogs get loose - always having a good hold on leashes during transfer and tie off leashes to a seat or something while going to get the next dog.

I am easiest to get by cell phone day or night -- Eric -- 703 786 6840

or email ericthered@inbox.com -- best way is to call --

something to consider if you are driving 2 hours to get there and and hour drive time - then depending how far back home you can be on the road a long time - there might be someone closer - when i have a situation like that i tell them to put me down as back up and if no one else volunteers then i jump in and do it

give me a call if you are interested it is easier to explain over the phone -- Thanks - Eric

 

[BFH44]

from last weekends rescue transport

 

[HairahSitna]

I can think of a few "selfless", "awesome", "godsend", "brother", "angel", "saint", "hero", "guardian"

Karda nailed it right there. All of you volunteers are #1 in my book.

I work Fri, Sat, Sun, all 11 hour shifts, so weekends are out for me, and Wednesday is the same.

I'm on the west coast of Florida, but do usually have Mon, Tues, and Thursdays off. If I could help occasionally it would be a blessing to me.

Those dogs in the pictures were going to be killed and you saved them, kudos to you !!

 

[BFH44]

there is a place in yahoo groups that has dog transports nation wide listed and even though most are on weekends sometimes they get emergency runs during the week - you might be abklde to find something there at that group.

Eric

 

[Gorog]

Man, it's times like these that I WISH I had the stamina, courage, and other intrinsic skills necessary to drive for real. That is sweet stuff, Eric, I wish I had my driver's license now just so I could help some poor pooches out. But I don't, and trust me dude, you do not want someone like me behind the wheel, I am CA-RAZY quick to anger, and very inept at handling it, and I would sooner end up taking out myself and several others than helping any poor distressed animal. So, therefore, I will cheer you on from the sidelines, where everyone will be safe from me, and I will hope the day will come that I can overcome my limitations and do some quantifiable good for the animal population as well as humanity itself. Though, I hate to be callous, but if I had to choose based on my morals between helping humans and helping dogs, I would unfortunately be compelled to help people, not because I like it more, not because it would be easier, but because, as far as science knows, we are unique in our intelligence and emotional capacity, and I simply will not stand idly by while I have the motivation, to let little girls and boys, the future of our countries and civilizations, suffer, nor will I let the older generations wither in age unheard. I actually am more comfortable with dogs than people, but it is healthy to challenge yourself, to juggernaut right through your brain's comfort levels and put yourself in the shoes of the poverty stricken, the homeless, the hungry and thirsty masses. I like dogs more than people sometimes, especially when the person in question is yelling, screaming insults, and attacking me in some way, shape or form. But I abide by the harshest and most stringent of self regulations, and they state, if I had to choose between saving a little girl from a fire, or a dog from that same fire, the little girl would come first, though if I had the strength of body, I would go for the dog second. Not to say that I would be brave enough to barrel through a burning building rescuing people, though it would be awesome if I could, I'm just stating my rigid state of mind when it comes to importance. I would love someday to be able to help both humans and animals at the same time, but I am as iron in my resolve to help my fellow man first and foremost. Sorry if that offends anyone here, because I cannot take back something so fundamental as my feelings about my life's very meaning. And yes, I am dead serious, I believe you are what you make of yourself, and many of you have done incredible things in your lives, and it is time I follow that. I believe my life must revolve around caretaking the human race in any way I can. Maybe that is why I am appear so loathesome to myself when I look in the mirror and see an oversleeping, lazy young man with all these revolutionary ideas just WAITING in line to be released when, or if, I pull myself together. But this is getting out of hand for me. I have problems, and I must confront them. Thank you all for reading this verbose post of mine, I just wanted to voice my opinion, for we all have a voice worth hearing. Thank you all, once again, and peace.
Oh, and Eric, have you seen the commercials for the movie Thor? You bear a considerable resemblance to the guy who plays Thor, right down to the hair, face, and musculature. I think it's kind of cool, I indirectly know someone who looks kind of-sort of like Thor! Anyway, I hope you don't mind being compared to a resident of Valhalla. Anyway, yeah, I thought that was cool. Peace.

 

[cro91]

In Colorado If you ever need help.

 

[Howard Wallace]

... I am CA-RAZY quick to anger, and very inept at handling it, ...

I will hope the day will come that I can overcome my limitations and do some quantifiable good for the animal population as well as humanity itself...

It looks like you have an idea of the first steps on your path. Anger is not easy to overcome. Maybe it is one of those things we never really overcome, because it is part of our hormonal and biological heritage. If so, and we can't actually overcome it, we can at least hope to learn how to deal with it.

Do you have any ideas on how to approach this puzzle? The puzzle is different for each of us, although there are enough similarities between people that we can often learn from each other.

 

[Gorog]

I like how you approach life, Howard Wallace, its rather innovative. I kind of gave off the wrong impression, I think. I am very quick to anger, but I am, in fact, incredibly skilled at controlling it. Virtually no one can tell the difference between when I am ready to punch someone, and when I am ready to give them flowers. I pride myself on my self control, it has kept me out of trouble often, but it is not good enough to save me from the real world, for it is has never been given a true test by the truly unpleasant people on Earth. I have lived my life sheltered from all that, and it is probably time to come out of my shell, and start pushing my limits. I believe that is the solution to my puzzle, learning from mistakes I and others make. But I completely deviated from the purpose of this thread, sorry Eric. If I want to wax eloquent about my life's issues, I should start my own thread, at the least. Well, peace everyone, I'm out.

 

[Howard Wallace]

... But I completely deviated from the purpose of this thread, sorry Eric...

I'm not so sure. Eric may have his own story about why he works with the dogs, what effect it has on him, and how those efforts play in to solving his own puzzles. They may have some similarities with yours.

What does this have to do with khukuris?


Everything.

 

[Bobby Branton]

I m involved with Akita rescue in The southeast. I pull all Akitas that are suitable for adoption in South Carolina. Every once in a while we need a transport.
I burn a lot of gas and wear and tear on my old truck rescuing this noble breed. http://brantonknives.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=33
Thanks to all the people who donate their time to help these helpless animals.

This is my favorite pic of these guys getting a plane ride. How cool is that!!!

 

[Gorog]

Hm, I never thought of it that way...very interesting. Is that a quote from Bill Martino himself, that last bit about khukuris?