Don't Bother
The good part about having to euthanize Spice is that we're now free to short-term foster Bessie, the sweetest 10 year old basset you ever did see. The Nice Lady taking in bassets in the central valley has room for her next week, all we have to do is hang on to her, then give her a ride at least part way there. I'll be picking up Bessie when I take in Spice, sort of like a deposit/withdrawl, which feels weird as hell and sad, but here we are.

Around this time last year, I scrambled to save a 12 year old basset and get him a series of rides to this same Nice Lady. One leg of the trip backed out *after* the last minute, saying some bullshit about how she was getting married soon and her fiance thought that it would 'make her crazy' to do this run. Which would be fine, except that left the dog with no place to go. He ended up getting stuck in a foster home, which miraculously fell in love and adopted him so it worked out okay, but I'm not too inclined to rely on this woman.

Today I heard from her, offering to take Bessie but now she's 6 months pregnant so long car rides are no picnic for her and she'd have to take time off work to do it so only ask her if nobody else can do it.

Not to be all up in her business, but if that's your track record/availalability, there are about 1,000 different things you could do to make the world a better place besides transport dogs.