Animal Transport

This really was a very short trip for this gal as I picked her up and dropped her off all within 30 minutes, which is, for me, a short time to have her with me. Did I mention she was pregnant? Well she very much is and I would expect that she will have her litter within the week. She was very sweet, but also very frightened. People seem to forget the trauma these dogs go through when being moved around with all the new strange people going in and out of their lives in a very short time. We all need to keep in mind how we would feel in these circumstances and under their stress of being in all these strange places. When you stop and think it through, I wonder how well many of us would handle it. For some, not well. I hope all will be well for her on her new journey and she only meets the best of our kind.

Today I picked up these two very sweet, and very pregnant, little ladies at the Santa Paula shelter and we proceeded out to a boarding facility that the transports use to load. These two will be on a truck heading north by this evening and hopefully will be at a fosters by Sunday. I know one is very close to having her pups and the other is still a ways out yet. I have had pups born not 10 minutes after delivering them to their destination so transporting can bring it on, so to speak. I wish all well and hope things don’t happen till later in the week, for all concerned.