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    Membership Application for the

    For All Paws Sake

    Animal Rescue/Transport Network

  • ABOUT US: We are a shelter/rescue/transport network that moves dogs and cats from shelters in WV and KY to rescues throughout the northeastern states. We also assist our member shelters by screening rescue applications for them (which avoids the redundancy of you having to submit applications to both the shelter and transport coordinator). If your application is approved, we can give you access to this network, which will also give you the ability to pull from more shelters within the network or transfer animals to other rescues in the network (if you are a southern rescue wanting to send animals north).

    We will only transport from and to rescues and shelters that have completed this screening process.

    • If you are a southern rescue wanting to send dogs north and you already work with some rescues that you would like us to help transport to, they must also submit this application if they are not already a member of our network.
    • If you are a northern rescue currently pulling from southern rescues or shelters that we have not screened, then they must submit the application and be screened before we will transport from them.
    • Non-member shelters located in the USA can also use this application for the purpose of having our screening team process it and provide the results to your shelter so you can make an informed decision about rescues you want to work with. To become a member of our transport network so we can help you move dogs & cats to rescues, you must be able to meet us in Hagerstown MD on Saturdays by 12:30 or hitch with a shelter that can do so. We transport between MD and New England weekly most of the year with stops in the states along the way.

    We use a group site to communicate between the shelters and rescues. Approved organizations who have the ability to check email regularly are welcome to join this group. It is not a Facebook group, so you must use email to join. The shelters post their dogs/cats in need to the rescues via this group site.

    We can also offer assistance with home visits throughout the northeast via the rescues and drivers in our network.

    An independent volunteer screening team reviews/processes the application and checks the references and then sends it back to the transport coordinator and shelter you are applying to pull from. They do work full-time day jobs so this process can take several days to (rarely) a week to complete depending on how quickly your references respond to them. We appreciate your patience and understanding. Notifying your references in advance helps to speed up the process.


    IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR SENDING ORGANIZATIONS (shelters and foster-based rescues): All sending organizations must ensure all animals they are sending on our transports are healthy prior to boarding the transport. If a dog coughs, has funky looking stool, or is vomiting even on the morning of the transport, you must hold them back, get treatment, and assign them to another transport once they are healthy. We do not knowingly transport anything communicable to other animals. We will transport dogs with Demodex as long as the vet has certed they are healthy enough for transport and the receiving organization is aware of the condition and agreed to continue treatment and assume the cost for that. Sending organizations must treat all passengers for internal and external parasites (including worms, coccidia, giardia, fleas, lice and ticks) prior to assigning them to a transport date. Fecal test must be negative before boarding our transports. Any dog aged 6 months or older must have a 4DX test to check for heartworms and tick-related diseases. 

    In order to send dogs to Pennsylvania-based rescues, your organization must have the Pennsylvania Out of State Dealer License and renew it annually. You can join our network without it, but will not be able to transfer any dogs to rescues, shelters, or adopters residing in the state of Pennsylvania until you get this license. Legally, PA-based rescues cannot pull from unlicensed sending orgs.

    If you are a SENDING organization looking to transfer animals out to other rescues in our network, you MUST have a pet portal site (RescueGroups, Petfinder, AdoptAPet) where our rescues can view your pets. Many of our rescues do not use Facebook regularly, so only posting on Facebook will not allow you entrance into our network. RescueGroups is highly recommended as it allows you to track all of your animals, adopters, fosters, volunteers, and supporters plus it will also export to about 40 other sites (including AdoptAPet and Petfinder but you need to register for those sites to export to them) while you only have to maintain one listing inside RescueGroups. All three sites are free but you will have to submit information from your vet and/or proof of your 501(c)(3) to get these sites. If your primary focus is to transfer out to other rescues, in RescueGroups you can specify in the header or footer that the animal is available to rescue only to deter adopter inquiries. RescueGroups rocks! Definitely get it. You maintain one pet list in there and it exports them all over the place. If your application is approved, our network's founder can help you get set up with RescueGroups and show you how to use it effectively.

    To use our transport network, you must be able to get your animals to Hagerstown MD by 12:50 pm on Saturdays (either driving them yourself or hitching with one of our other southern orgs somewhere along I-64, I-79, I-81 or I-68). From Hagerstown, we can move them to any of our rescues between MD and New England at no charge to you. There are some hitching options available depending on what sending orgs are transporting, but some weeks you may have to make that trip yourself.

    Via this application, you will be giving us your vetting price list for rescues. Rescues are expected to reimburse you for basic vetting according to that price list (spay/neuter, rabies, distemper combo, 4DX, fecal, wormer, flea/tick, health certificate) unless you notify them that the animal is sponsored. Price must be confirmed with the rescue via email prior to the animal being loaded onto our transports. If you encounter any issues with a rescue not reimbursing you in a timely manner, contact our network's founder and they will intervene to help resolve the situation.

  • SECTION 1 - Everyone start here

  • Sending organizations: Membership in this network requires that you keep in regular email communication with us. If you are not able to do this, please do not submit this application.

  • If your application is approved, do you want to join our email group and become part of our online community? You will receive shelter pleas for help as well as group discussions on various rescue-related topics, plus have access to our resource library. If you choose not to join the group, you will not receive any notifications of dogs in need or available transports as that group is the main way our network communicates all information. If you join you must keep your group setting on either All Mail or Daily Digest.*

  • We realize this is a lengthy application, but it covers all of the questions our various shelters and transport coordinators have asked of rescues over the years. Once approved, the app can be provided to any shelter in our network upon request should you decide you want to pull from them. This saves you a lot of redundancy in submitting rescue applications to work with our shelters. Most will accept our application as is, but some will want to do a bit of additional screening. It is our attempt to streamline the application/screening process for both our rescues and shelters. At this time we have over 20 shelters in the network.  Thanks for taking the time to complete the application.

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  • SECTION 2 - For southern sending rescues/shelters only. Northern receiving groups, skip down to Section 3.

  • The key to getting interest from our northern rescues is for you to develop relationships with them, and that means talking to our online discussion group frequently via email. A sending organization that posts something every day is far more likely to get assistance than one that posts something once every two weeks. Please do not submit this application if you do not plan to be chatty on a regular basis. If you can't talk to us regularly, then filling out this lengthy application is just a waste of your time.

  • THIS SECTION IS ABOUT VETTING AND FEES YOU WILL BILL TO THE RECEIVING RESCUES. This section is basically for rescues in WV, KY & OH that pull from their local shelter or take in owner surrenders and then look to transfer them to rescues in northeastern states.

     

  • Sending Organizations - Vetting Fees & Information

  • Which dog vaccines do you have available?

  • What can your available vaccinations cover? Check all that apply.

  • Heartworm/Combo testing we have available

  • Allwormer Source
  • Drontal Source
  • Available wormers/parasite/intestinal treatments, (Prices for these can be provided to the rescues as needed upon request.)

  • Is the health certificate fee per dog or per certificate?

  • What flea/tick treatments do you have available?

  • Can you quarantine dogs in foster or boarding for 14 days prior to sending on our transports?

  • Before you join us, you must have accounts with both RescueGroups and AdoptAPet and all of your available animals must be posted to RescueGroups (which then will export them to AdoptAPet and dozens of other sites for you). The link to your AdoptAPet pet list will be stored in our directory for our rescues to peruse available animals.

  • If you are not technologically oriented and will need assistance getting RescueGroups and AdoptAPet set up, let us know via your answer below and one of our volunteers will assist you if your application is approved.

  • FYI: Due to the overwhelming numbers of these animals in northeastern shelters and rescues, it's unlikely you will get much interest in bully breeds or cats from our northern rescues. It's not impossible to place bully breeds, but you will have to network them quite a bit more than other dog breeds and they pretty much have to have a great temperament around everyone as well as excellent video showcasing them interacting with other dogs. Sadly, the cat overpopulation issue is just as much a problem up north as it is down south. Kittens or cats with unusual coloring or personalities may get interest. Videos of dogs interacting with humans and other animals (via a YouTube link) are very helpful...and that goes for any breed of dog or cat. If you show them in motion they are more likely to get interest.

     

  • FOR SENDING ORGANIZATIONS: Before you click submit on this application, please make a note of this information: We require excellent marketing of dogs to our network, so as part of the review process for membership, we need to see how you market your dogs. Please send photos, video, and a bio about one or more of your current dogs via email to us at plrapply@gmail.com. Your application will be processed after this information is received.*

  • SECTION 3 - For Receiving Rescues or No-Kill Shelters

  • Receiving Organizations: THIS NEXT SECTION IS NOT ABOUT YOU. IT'S ABOUT WHAT SHELTER OR SOUTHERN RESCUE YOU ARE APPLYING TO PULL DOGS OR CATS FROM.

    WE TRANSPORT FOR MULTIPLE ORGANIZATIONS IN SEVERAL STATES. PLEASE IDENTIFY WHAT SHELTER OR RESCUE ARE YOU APPLYING TO PULL FROM SO WE KNOW WHERE TO SEND YOUR COMPLETED APPLICATION.

    Sending rescues, just fill in We are a sending rescue in the Organization Name field below.

  • What organization(s) are you applying to pull from?

  • SECTION 4 - For Northern Receiving Rescues or No-Kill Shelters

  • THE FOLLOWING SECTION IS FOR INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR RESCUE OR NO-KILL SHELTER. Every rescue must complete this section, regardless of whether you will be sending or receiving animals. Every receiving shelter must complete this section.

  • We understand that unless an animal offered is marked sponsored, our rescue must reimburse the sending org for vetting fees and that we will discuss/confirm these fees with the sending org in advance of transport.*

  • We rescue*

  • In what states do you have foster homes? Check all that apply.*

  • We are a (check all that apply)

  • Do you rescue heartworm-positive dogs?

  • If yes, do you keep them in foster care until they test negative?

  • Do you consider yourself to be a team player?*
  • What other sites do you have? (Check all that apply)*

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  • We request authorized puller information to prevent third-party individuals from falsely pulling animals under your rescue's name. Should your authorized puller contacts change, please notify us and we will update our files.

  • Authorized Pullers*

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  • Is your rescue a 501(c)(3) non-profit?*

  • If your rescue does not have a federal EIN # and it's registered under an individual's social security number instead, please do not list that SS # in the EIN box below. Instead, just put this: SS#/private. We are not interested in receiving anyone's social security number. Please keep that information private.

  • Does your organization breed?*

  • Do you board dogs in a kennel in lieu of fostering?*

  • Do you board dogs in a kennel in addition to using foster homes?*

  • Does your rescue always do a home visit on a new foster home before giving them an animal to foster?*

  • Do your rescue always do home visits on adopters prior to adoption?*

  • If you do not currently do home visits 100% of the time, but we allow you to join this network, would you revise your policy to do 100% with the assistance of other members of this network if the adopter is not local to your area?*

  • How long does each dog or cat stay in foster after transport prior to adoption?*

  • REFERENCES: Please include your vet and local ACO as well as any shelters you regularly pull animals from.

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  • Reference 1 Type*

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  • Reference 2 Type*

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  • Reference 3 Type

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  • YOUR RESCUE'S PROCESSES AND POLICIES

  • Are you familiar with parvovirus, how long it can incubate, and how this disease is transmitted?*

  • Do you require animals to be spayed or neutered before adoption? *

  • If no, do you require spaying/neutering after adoption?

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  • Does your rescue do home visits for every potential adoption situation?*

  • Has you rescue ever euthanized an animal?*

  • Do you always take back the animal if for some reason the adopter can't keep it?*

  • What type of accommodations does your rescue provide for the rescue animals? Check all that apply.*

  • Do you do cosmetic surgery such as ear cropping, tail docking, or declawing?*

  • Do you agree to keep fosters current on vaccinations while in your care & to find a home that will agree?*

  • Do you agree to keep fosters on flea & tick control while in your care & to find a home that will agree?*

  • Do you agree not to euthanize any animal that our shelter has sent you without checking with us first?

  • With the exception of pregnant animals, do you understand that it may be mandatory that the animals you rescue from us be spayed/neutered before going to your rescue? And that you will be required to pay for this surgery?*

  • What is your standard vetting protocol for dogs prior to adoption? (check all that apply)*

  • What is your standard vetting protocol for cats prior to adoption? (check all that apply)*

  • Do you always test cats for FiV?*

  • Do you always test cats for FeL?*

  • Do you ever adopt an animal out on a spay/neuter contract/deposit?*

  • If the shelter requests a site visit, do you agree to allow a volunteer access to your facility/foster home?*

  • Post-Transport Health Quarantine Protocol - Do you agree to keep all dogs and cats in foster for a minimum of 1 week for adults and 2 weeks for pups/kits prior to placing them in adoptive homes? This is to ensure that anything they may be incubating from a shelter environment is discovered and treated while they are in your foster program.

  • TRANSPORT INFORMATION

  • During winter months, Saturday transports are sometimes switched to Sundays as we work our travel times around snowstorms. The decision to switch is typically made by 8 pm on Friday, late enough that we know how the storm is impacting the route but early enough for everyone to get the notice of the change.

  • NORTHEASTERN RESCUES: Which of these stops are suitable for you to meet transports to load up animals (if a sending org) or pick up animals (if a receiving org) on weekends (usually Saturdays but northern New England may be on Sunday occasionally)?*

  • As part of the application review process, we may require a site visit before we can approve you for our network. Do you agree to let one of our members visit you in person?*
  • MIDWEST RESCUES: Which of these stops are suitable for you to meet transports to load up animals (if a sending org) or pick up animals (if a receiving org) on Saturdays?

  • Do you understand that if any of the information on this application is found to be false, or if we find the animal you are rescuing from us is not being given the proper care (personal or veterinarian), we will reclaim the animal?*

  • THE FOLLOWING SECTION IS FOR ALL APPLICANTS.

  • How did you find out about our network?*

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