Ohio People: Is This Sanctuary Reputable?

[Cinder & Smoke]

I need to know if anyone is familiar with this rescue
http://saintfrancisanimalsanctuary.org/

The woman that runs it has offered to fly Bear there to "live out his days"
http://www.petoftheday.com/talk/show...wpost&t=143548

This Shelter is west of Cleveland, Ohio - up by Lake Erie.

Seems strange that the St. Francis Shelter would be able to afford a plane ride
for Bear ... that will cost a LOT of money which could be saved with proper
coordination with one of the national Transport Groups.

St. Francis Animal Sanctuary *IS* shown on the IRS web site as a 501(C)3 charity.

[moosmom]

Phred,

Actually, it's not that expensive to fly them. Delta Dash offers animal shipping for about $150. That's cheap considering the cost of fuel.

The Bear situation is perfect reason why I don't believe in adopting out to college kids. It's a cat nightmare waiting to happen.

[pitc9]

OMG...Val, I've actually MET Scooter, the dog in the wheelchair on their home page.
The rescue was at a function I went to with my parent's last summer.

They had a few dogs there up for adoption!

[Spiritwind]

Phred,

Actually, it's not that expensive to fly them. Delta Dash offers animal shipping for about $150. That's cheap considering the cost of fuel.

The last time I was going to use Delta to ship a dog, the estimate I got it was going to be about $400-$450 to ship a 70 lb adult collie from NC to Buffalo, NY... this was several months ago, back in Jan/Feb I believe, I ended up not doing it beacuse of the cost...

I picked up a female adult sheltie from Delta dash for friends of mine just a couple months ago, the dog was shipped from Ohio to NC... it was roughly $230-250.... which was more than I was expecting actually!...

[moosmom]

When I shipped Lexie Joon to Dr. Kym, it was about $150. Of course I'm SURE it's alot more for dogs.

[Spiritwind]

Oh yeah... the shipping cost is based on the total weight of the animal and the weight/size of the kennel its shipped in..