NS Needs an Underdog Railroad

Late last night, I had a very interesting and promising email. Anyone who has followed the progress of the new provincial board for the society knows that they've done a lot more than just blow smoke. Practical measures have been implemented to the structure of the society that have enabled them to move forward in a better way for the animals.
In particular, the newly created Metro Shelter Management Team has made a big difference for the animals in its care. Policy changes and sweat equity have created a more user friendly Metro that in turn has boosted their adoption rates.
So back to the email .... now Metro is looking for a way to bring a few (6) dogs at a time, on a regular basis, from the Cape Breton SPCA to Metro. Because of the distance involved, they are looking for volunteers to help rather than tying up shelter staff every couple of weeks.
Over in Nfld, they have a great group called Pet Transfer, that don't actually do rescue, but work to get the animals at risk to the groups, like the Clarenville SPCA that I blogged about the other day, who can rescue and rehome them.
Here's today's 'what if" - a volunteer network of drivers here in NS who could help relocate pets ... not just between Metro and the CB branch, but between any groups or even to adopters.
For instance .... this middle aged granny wear trifocals and has very little peripheral vision ... which would make me as much of a hazard on the highway as Mr McGoo. I would not have been able to adopt Miss Ruby had my brother not been able to bring her here from her foster home in the city. (Yes that's the same brother whose band is playing tomorrow night at the SPCA fundraiser : ))))
Now someone like me would be more likely to apply to adopt from Cape Breton / Yarmouth/ the LA Shelter/ Pet Projects and everywhere in between if they didn't have to hop in the car themselves and wreak heaven knows what havoc en route !
There's an old saying in the mess halls .... its just as much work to cook a meal for two dozen as it is for two hundred.
Like Pet Transfer, a volunteer network wouldn't do any of the actual rescue - it wouldn't take applications/ check references/ etc. It would provide logistical support for the groups and shelters ... and perhaps in the process enable them to adopt more pets.
Not everyone can, or should, be a foster parent. Nor can everyone have their own rescue .... that's how people wind up on the eleven o'clock news with the SPCA vans in their dooryard. Being a volunteer driver now and then might just be the perfect fit for the people who want to make a difference but are only free to do so now and then.
Who knows what wonderful things could come of an 'underdog (and cat) railroad' for all animals in the province, eh?
"The line between disorder and order lies in logistics…" -- Sun Tzu