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sharky60

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Headed home to Florida,Toronto, Boston or Hartford CT or any airport close to Rhode Island, from Coz?

Be a pet escort for the Humane Society & help bring a deserving pet to its new forever home! It's free! It's fun! It's rewarding!

Contact the Humane Society of Cozumel for details ... Humane Society of Cozumel

...a CozumelRadio.net "pet project"! :D
 
Please help out if you can. We have escorted 3 dogs back and the humane society takes care of everything. It is very easy to do and you will be greeted by very happy people when you get to your home airport.
 
Very nice
 
Some friends of mine volunteered for this service and the ensuing events would have made a great comedy. The people who were supposed to deliver the dog to them with all the appropriate papers didn't show up until the very last second before the plane departed, and simply handed off the dog in its pet carrier and left. My friends boarded the plane with the dog and it wasn't long before they smelled something awful; the pooch had diarrhea. The stewardess told them they needed to take the dog and the cage to the bathroom and clean it, because the other passengers were starting to gag. Obliging the stewardess, one of them took the pooch and container back to the lavatory where he cleaned it in the sink as best he could. As he was trying to get the wet, squirming pooch back into the pet carrier, it crapped all over him and the restroom. More cleanup ensued, and while he was washing the dog's belly, he saw it had a large incision with brand-new stiches. When he told my other friend of this new finding, she freaked, figuring they were now acting as mules carrying a drug-stuffed pup for someone they had never met before and began to panic about the interrogation they were about to receive in US customs on arrival. To make matters worse, the diarrhea came back with a vengeance and soon their nearby seatmates began to hurl.

Once they landed, they went to the customs agent with trembling knees, expecting the worst and wondering if they could convince the agent they were just dupes. But they lucked out; the dog was so covered in filth that the inspector didn't want to touch it, so he never saw the incision. Relieved, they passed off the pooch to the person waiting for it and then went home for a shower.
 
The incision is probably where she had been fixed, female since males don't get incisions. Humane Society, like other rescue groups, will not allow an animal to be adopted prior to being fixed, which means many are fixed last minute. Rescued animals also often have diarrhea since they are often not cared well for prior to rescue and often get lots of meds. I think it's the deworming gives that gives them the diarrhea. There's often live worms in the poop, so you got off easy... :confused:
 
What was that rule? Don't take packages from people you don't know well. What the heck were you thinking? It could have been where they stashed the drugs. It's cheaper than mules. I won't even get into the "bomb" thing.
 
We're going to be in Coz for New Years for a surprise (it was the thought that counted) Birthday trip from my hubby so I looked into this after reading your post. We're in DC, but believe we're stopping in Florida on the way, so I went to volunteer to escort and learn more about what we needed to do.

Please help out if you can. We have escorted 3 dogs back and the humane society takes care of everything. It is very easy to do and you will be greeted by very happy people when you get to your home airport.

Well, the process sounds easy - website does say they do everything, so checked out the rest of the site to get more info and saw Nana nana.jpg...and then saw JC JC-300x210.jpg -- THIS IS NOT EASY!

JC looks just like my 13 year old that we lost 4 years ago, and 18 months ago, when we lost our 16 year old Chow/Shephard mix, decided we were going to be 'dogless' so we can retire (next year) and just travel without leaving a dog behind....or two?

ARGH!!!! ....since my birthday surprise is no longer a surprise....????

It is so sad that there are so many dogs at the shelter...REALLY glad there's hope for some of the animals....at some point we'll have dogs again, but in the meantime, will provide the cause some level of support of some sort....THANK YOU for sharing this!
 
What was that rule? Don't take packages from people you don't know well. What the heck were you thinking? It could have been where they stashed the drugs. It's cheaper than mules. I won't even get into the "bomb" thing.

Somebody has been watching too much Locked Up Abroad. The escort volunteers are one of the many lifelines of the Cozumel Humane Society. I am not even sure how to respond to this it is so far out of left field. Maybe I am a sucker, but doubt it. I guess the moral is if you want to help do it, if you don't, don't. If you are uncomfortable don't take the dog. In my 3 experiences everything has been great, every I dotted every t crossed and done with the utmost of professionalism. I for one choose to help and hope to again later this month.
 

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