Pet Transport Services to Move a Pet

Looking for a pet transport service to move a dog, cat, or other pet from one location to another? There are both paid services and volunteer-based ones.

Many volunteer pet transport services use multi-leg transports, which means there are several volunteers per transport and each volunteer drives one or more legs. While multi-leg transports can be a good option in many cases, the pets need to be comfortable interacting with strangers (and sometimes other pets) as they are transferred from vehicle to vehicle.

The following list of pet transport services is not comprehensive. For more options, try searching online using criteria such as "animal transport," and include the name of your state or destination state in your search.

Please note: The inclusion of a service, organization, or program in this listing is not an endorsement or recommendation. We have not checked them all out, and management and policies can change suddenly. We strongly suggest that you vet services yourself before using one.

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General pet transport services

Area-specific transport

Hope for Paws Colorado: Transports pets for animal shelters and rescue groups throughout the Rocky Mountain, Midwest, and Southern regions
Start Rescue: Works in California with shelters and rescue groups and transports to the Pacific Northwest
The Rescue Express: Works in Pennsylvania, taking in homeless pets from Southern states

Breed-specific transport

Local pet transport services

Many cities have "pet taxi" businesses and pet-friendly ride-share services that transport pets locally. Try searching for services in your area.

Paid moving companies

Paid air transport

The International Pet and Animal Transportation Association (IPATA) has a list of companies that assist with air transport on its website.

International transport

World Pet Travel and PetRelocation can assist with transports to and from other countries. PetRelocation is rescue friendly and assisted with a major air transport for animals displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

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About Best Friends Animal Society

Best Friends is working to end the killing of dogs and cats in U.S. shelters in part by getting more pets out of shelters and into loving homes.

We’ve come a long way since the first known city reached no-kill in 1994, and now we’re closer than ever to making the entire country no-kill. Of the roughly 3,900 shelters operating in America today, 1,300 of them are not yet no-kill, but nearly half are close with 100 or fewer additional pets to be saved, and we know what to do to get them there.

Best Friends is committed to working with passionate people like you to save homeless pets through adoption, volunteering, fostering, and advocacy. In addition to our lifesaving centers around the U.S, we also founded and run the nation's largest no-kill sanctuary for companion animals.

Working together, we can save homeless pets in our communities and secure a better future for our best friends. Together, we will bring the whole country to no-kill.