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  • 1.  Pet Supply and Demand/Transport: What does a perfect national pet transport program look like?

    Posted 03-05-2021 12:53 PM
    We asked this question on our March 5th leadership call and want to keep that conversation going! Please share your thoughts and ideas about what a perfect national pet transport program might look like. If you missed the call, you can watch the recording here.

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    Sharon Fletcher
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  • 2.  RE: Pet Supply and Demand/Transport: What does a perfect national pet transport program look like?

    Posted 03-15-2021 06:53 AM
    The national pet transport program of the future  should work like supply chains in other industries do today. 
    • Working together as a consortium of professional organizations, we would establish regular transport routes and fill the transports accordingly instead of waiting for demand and quickly trying to fill the transport.
    • We would recognize that there are costs and also inherent value in the animals, and that value must be moved between sending and receiving organizations to ensure we all have the monetary resources to serve our mission.
    • We would leverage established, proven and peer reviewed standards for transport like the ones the ASPCA has put together, instead of creating individual transport protocols and best practice perspectives.
    • We would utilize all modes of transport to move animals safely including volunteer, commercial and high-volume options to move 1 or 100 animals instead of waiting for our preferred mode to be available to us.
    • We would recognize that while we are moving living, sentient beings, that more generic inventory and supply chain best practices from other industries can apply to our industry to help us balance the supply and demand as a movement, instead of as individual organizations.
    • We would embrace technology to enable our coordination workflows, instead of resisting the change to the way we have always done it.
    • We would use data to proactively suggest movement of animal inventory, based upon demand.
    • We would act with the mindset that change to our prison based model is required and that transforming the purpose of a physical brick and mortar shelter within a community is inherent to establish the type of future for animals that we all seek.


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    chris roy
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  • 3.  RE: Pet Supply and Demand/Transport: What does a perfect national pet transport program look like?

    Posted 03-15-2021 07:49 AM
    Chris-

    These are all amazing, well thought out points. Sharing transport resources and routes would be perfect. How can we establish a network of who can take what from where to visualize how this would work?

    Barb Frazier, SPCA Serving Erie County, NY


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    Barbara Frazier
    SPCA Serving Erie County
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  • 4.  RE: Pet Supply and Demand/Transport: What does a perfect national pet transport program look like?

    Posted 03-16-2021 02:31 PM
    For clients on PetPoint, there is the PetPoint Transfer Network which allows organizations to display some basic information on whether they are a sending or destination partner, animal type, and basic contact information all on an easy to navigate map. Shelters can also choose to display their animals available for transport including pictures and medical information for destination shelters to search. Destination shelters can submit requests through the module to arrange the transfer or reach out using the contact information provided. Once the transfer is arranged, a little setup allows the animal record to transfer from one PetPoint organization to another which will include a transfer history report providing basic history and medical on the new animal record in the destination shelter's PetPoint database. It might be something that could be useful on a broader stage, as well. We also just added a Transfer Manifest report, designed with the HSUS, to help provide the necessary information to make any transfer a little easier to manage. If you have PetPoint, take a look at the PPTN menu, check out Support > Community, or reach out to your client services rep for more information.

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    diann meiller
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  • 5.  RE: Pet Supply and Demand/Transport: What does a perfect national pet transport program look like?

    Posted 03-19-2021 08:23 AM
    Chris, 
    I agree on all points, the only thing I would add is that animals should be moved the shortest distance possible, and destinations should accept the animals that sources need to place, not just the most easily adopted.

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    brad shear
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  • 6.  RE: Pet Supply and Demand/Transport: What does a perfect national pet transport program look like?

    Posted 03-15-2021 07:55 AM
    In terms of source shelters finding destinations only wanting small breeds/puppies/kittens, how about an incentive...take large breed/bully breed/adult cats and prioritize those shelters to receive some puppies or kittens to help balance LOS and other resources. We can place any healthy, behaviorally appropriate dog or cat in our shelter. We can't keep these dogs on the adoption floor and size is not an issue. I can't even find cats at the moment locally, regionally or even from our established national partners. Any kittens/cats out there? Contact me at barbf@yourspca.org

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    Barbara Frazier
    SPCA Serving Erie County
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