They haven't offered? YOU ARE DOING THEM a favor!!! Can't you tell them to find someone to do the 1st leg and tell them that a lot of shelters do the transport work themselves because it is worth the adoption? (Holey moley)..... You'd think that they would look at what you need and reach out to their friends and connections across the states... Have you asked them to? Or are they wierd about all this somehow?!