Pictured above is a Bernadoodle: a cross between a female Bernese Mountain Dog and a male Miniature Poodle. Sue Murphy recently delivered one from Colorado to a happy family in Boston. She's a professional pet deliverer. Murphy has been very busy during the pandemic at the behest people who want puppies, but don't want to risk traveling for them. For a price, Murphy takes the COVID-19 risks for them. The Wall Street Journal (sorry, it's a paywalled article) describes the work of these pet deliverers, including one named Lori Sheder:
"People were like contacting me almost every day," says Ms. Sheder. "I felt bad because I couldn't accommodate them."
She restarted service again this month, delivering a tea-cup Yorkshire terrier to LaGuardia. She works for the school board during the week and escorts puppies on the weekends.
Some flight nannies are former airline employees, who still get discounted airfares that help make the margins work out, according to Shane Hallman of Samantha, Ala.
Mr. Hallman, 44, got into the business after a battle with cancer, a truck accident that left him with 23 fractures and a divorce. Now he owns an 11-person operation delivering puppies–some by air, most by ground–for Crockett Doodles, a large breeder based in Greenville, S.C.
Although some pet deliveries come by air, others operate by ground. They often travel continuously from dog site to dog site:
Troy Nichols, co-owner of pet-delivery company in Micanopy, Fla., set out on a Saturday this month with an Italian greyhound in the back of his Dodge Grand Caravan, drove to Norman, Okla., and picked up an English bulldog puppy.
Then Mr. Nichols, 53, and his back-up driver shot south to Orange Grove, Texas, where he collected four Great Dane puppies before dropping the bulldog off with an excited family in Corpus Christi. A couple of Rottweiler pups were ready for him in Houston, as was a customer in Winnsboro, Texas, waiting on one of the Great Danes.
From there it was north to Kenefic, Okla., to get five mini Australian shepherds–four of them puppies–and to Elmore City, Okla., where a man surprised his kids with the Rottweiler babies.
-via Marginal Revolution | Photo: Pixabay
IF HUMANS TRULY LOVED ANIMALS THEY SURE AS HELL WOULD NOT BE SUPPORTING BREEDERS AND INSISTING ON BUYING PUREBRED PUPPIES!
JOHN FARRIER - YOU AND FRANZIFIED ARE EITHER INSENSITIVE OR UNAWARE OF THE PLIGHT OF HOMELESS PETS AND THE CURSE OF BREEDERS. .
How many homeless dogs could have been saved with the money used to buy this dog from a BREEDER?Hypocritical Humans buying purebreds from a Breeder rather than adopting a great dog, cat from a shelter or rescue group?THE HYPOCRISY OF HUMANS NEVER FAILS TO AMAZE ME