'NE Transport' Question

[LauraH]

Can someone please explain to me how these often discussed 'NorthEast Transports' work. I ask because San Antonio ACSD has a dog listed on PF. I called the shelter to check status and was told that the dog was not available for adoption or rescue because it was already slated for a NE transport to New Hampshire. I was slightly stunned that that they did such a thing all the way from San Antonio but 'ok'. However, they said the dog wasn't going to be transported until sometime in mid-July.

So now it's not making any sense to me. WHy would you have that dog (and the others) taking up space in a kill shelter for over a month to be transferred to New Hampshire and not only that but make it not locally available in the interim?

Is there a specific number of dogs they have to have but even if there is...couldn't that one dog be locally adopted and replaced with someone else who comes in later? What am I missing?

Someone please educate me.

[MollyATL]

The piece you are missing is the mandatory 2-week out-of-shelter that regular transports almost always require. So, the dogs slated for transport should not be taking up shelter space...they should be held elsewhere (likely with temp fosters) until they are ready to head out. That also means you can't last-minute substitute a dog. Depending on the program, the receiving shelter likely also had some input into which dogs they wanted, and may have contributed financially to get them vetted and ready.

It is interesting that they are sending them NE instead of NW. But the big programs right now are to the NE. I guess there must not be as much demand in the NW?