Traveling Tails
In addition to partnering with shelters and rescues across our region to transfer animals to our Knoxville shelter, Humane Society, Tennessee Valley is working with organizations across the country to provide transport for animals from areas in East Tennessee where shelters are overwhelmed and often lacking critical resources and funding, transport programs help create space so these shelters can help even more animals.
The goal of the new transport program, Traveling Tails, is not just to move animals, but to create a network of source and destination shelters to save more lives. All of the destination shelters go through a detailed process to ensure they have the same value for the life of the animals we transport to them. Prior to transport all animals are up to date on vaccines and they receive a health certificate from a Veterinarian to cross state lines. We are fortunate to be able to provide this service to some of our source shelters because obtaining the requirements to transport an animal can be cost prohibitive.
Your donation, to our Traveling Tails program, can provide vaccines, health certificates and much needed funds for gas for our transport vehicles. Some of our trips to destination shelters are over 1400 miles roundtrip from Knoxville!
Last year alone, more than 3000 additional lives were saved by various transport groups from East Tennessee. Please consider helping Traveling Tails save even more in 2021 by supporting our new transport program. If you are interested in more details or want to be a volunteer transport driver please email [email protected].
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