07/18/2025
WARNING! GRAPHIC PICS!
This is disgusting and criminal.
4 of 16 dogs on this transport are dead. Not only is the transport at fault…but the rescues that put the dogs on this transport are guilty too. You put your dogs on this transport in this filth? No air conditioning? In hard crates that are TOO SMALL FOR THE DOGS THEY CONTAINED. These people didn’t stop to check dogs are take them out. These crates are filled with urine, puke, feces….and the dogs died a horrible death confined in this s**t. What is wrong with you? Dogs survived horrible shelters or the streets to be supposedly rescued and die like this?
Not the first time. A cargo van…box truck…trailer? And don’t forget all the reports of dead dogs in TRAILERS whose air conditioning units failed while their temperature gauges in the truck registered 72 degrees. Equipment fails. And the dogs die horrible deaths. And they bought those trailers to save money….don’t forget that.
You know what doesn’t fail? People….drivers and handlers on buses that walk up and down the aisles checking on their dogs. Living dogs…that remain alive because they are checked on 24 hours a day. They are NEVER left unattended while they are on that bus..PERIOD. Even the humans take turns for restroom breaks cause we are not going to let anyone steal that bus with those dogs on it. They sleep on the floor of that bus. We have NEVER lost one of our dogs on transport. We have never had one get loose and left behind. If the a/c fails…we know it right then! That’s why we bought a freightliner with 3 separate units on it. And an inverter so we can run fans if we need to.
We post pics & videos of our bus before starting out which shows it clean and disinfected. We post pics and videos of potty stops so you can see your dogs. We post videos of the bus traveling down the highway and the handler going up and down cleaning the kennels in case of accidental poops/pees.
We don’t haul outside dogs anymore…just our own. But when we did…people turned us down. We charged $350 from Texas to Canada. They wouldn’t pay it…they want $125 to $175 “rescue” rates. Well look at these photos of your “rescue rates”. Rescues are complicit in this crap to save a buck. Even before my bus and my own transport, I refused to put several dogs on transports that I felt uncomfortable with…felt they were unsafe. Adoption fees do not cover safe transport. Donations are needed to cover it. Anyone trying to cover these costs with adoption fees is not doing it for rescue.
BMAR is often taken to task for asking for donations to do repairs to our bus. And they are a lot…bus is heavy equipment and commercial vehicles are expensive to repair and maintain. Still owe $1200 on the last $5200 we paid for repairs and we have a $1300 service coming up next week to get ready for the August transport. Yet we are always told…why don’t you find a cheaper way? This is why…take a good look. We value the lives of our rescues above financial game. Yes, we beggar ourselves to keep that bus running and safe. We embarrass ourselves with begging for funds. If it’s just us, we roll the windows down in “old truck” and drive off. But not our dogs…. never our dogs.
Every month there is one more of these horror stories… A van got stolen…and found with dead dogs or the dogs dumped out somewhere. Equipment failures in trailers and dogs suffocating because they “were fine at the last check an hour ago”. Box trucks, cargo vans…no air conditioning…no air flow. Drivers laid up in a motel doing drugs while the dogs are out in the van dying/dead. This will never STOP until people and rescues QUIT putting their dogs on these shady transports. It’s up to us…it’s up to YOU to stop this. Now do it! Tell everyone to stop. Donors need to stop supporting anyone who does this, stop supporting the horrendous deaths of these dogs.
