UPDATE: We've got it covered... thanks to all the wonderful folks in the local Scottish Deerhound community, and to the national club, for their help and support!
A Scottish Deerhound -- and yes, she really is one -- was pulled from a shelter in Stockton, California by the good people at South Bay Purebred Rescue. She's been spayed and had a benign tumor removed, and now she needs a ride to her forever home in Oregon.
We have all legs of this journey covered for this coming Wednesday, except for one. The deerhound is in Prunedale, California, just off US-101 about an hour and 45 minutes south of San Francisco, about 20 minutes south of Gilroy.
We have two options:
1. I can drive down from San Francisco and pick her up in Prunedale and transport her to somewhere en route to a hand-off in Dunningan, CA (which is about 30 miles north of Davis on Highway 5). There are a couple of different routes that would work to get there, so the hand-off could be anywhere convenient -- San Francisco? East Bay? Fremont?
2. OR someone else can get her in Prunedale that morning and hand her off to me somewhere along the route, and I'll take her to Dunnigan to meet someone who is driving down from southern Oregon and then turning around and taking her back up to the next hand-off.
Please feel free to pass this request along to anyone you think might help, promote it on your own blog or social media, anything you think will get this girl a ride - obviously it has to be someone with a vehicle that can carry a dog of this size, and has some kind of connection to or references in the rescue or dog world so we'll know she'll be in good hands!
It's just a very small piece of a very long ride for this girl, who has been through a lot! Please comment here or email me at christiekeith at gmail dot com if you can help.
Christie, I've just posted it on the Bullmastiff Fanciers' List. There are several people there in California.
Fingers crossed for her safe passage.
Nairn
in Ontario
Posted by: Nairn Galvin | 31 May 2009 at 09:38 PM
Christie, great to hear this all worked out! Puts my morning commute in perspective. Love the site btw, Justin.
Posted by: Oneilljk | 01 June 2009 at 06:30 PM