The pet transportation company has a trailer. They meet up in the surrounding states and breeders come to drop off purchased puppies who are scheduled to fly. They fill up that trailer and continue to make their way to their destination, in a different state over 100 miles away.

They get to their destination and wait for loading night. Now you may be wondering, what about the puppies? Are they cleaned? Fed? Watered? Can they stretch? The answer is, most of the time, no… especially the large breed puppies. There’s another problem with the crates that breeders provide. They are filled with shredded paper. Sometimes this shredded paper gets tangled in small breed puppies’ feet and causes them to swell.

The night of loading, they split the East and the West Coast puppies. The job of the Puppy Chaperone is to clean and check puppies before loading, and it remains their job until drop off. Drop off takes a whole day. Now the puppies have been sitting in their crates for 2-3 days plus adding the stress of an airplane and turbulence. You tell me if that’s fair to their fragile bodies. Plus having to deal with the different weather changes, for example if they have any drop offs in Phoenix, that’s a whole hour sitting in a plane with 97-degree weather outside. Because it’s not just “Here’s the puppies that are getting off, let’s go!” Nope! Pilots must wait for fuel, which can take an hour. There are also situations where the plane and drop off have been 30 degrees, way too cold in the wintertime.