I took part in a pet transport Saturday. It was the first one I have participated in, not because I haven’t wanted to before, but because either the legs near my location were filled, or I was already booked on the day of the transport.
For those of you who don’t know what a pet transport is, there is a whole network of rescue folks across the country who arrange for transportation to get animals from one place to another — many times across multiple states. That was the case on Saturday.
You get all kinds of phone calls when you’re in animal rescue. When I first started out, I naively thought that most calls would be from people looking for a pet to adopt. Unfortunately, that’s not the case.
The most calls start something like “There’s this stray dog…” and end with a plea for help. Sometimes I can help, sometimes my kennels and cages are full and I can’t take in any more.
Sometimes there are calls asking if I’ve seen someone’s lost pet. Unfortunately, I rarely have. Now, if I could somehow get those callers together…