Show HN: Dog Rescue Transport Coordination Website

7 josdijkstra 3 9/6/2025, 11:43:18 PM puptransfur.org ↗
Recently, I was part of a dog rescue transport from Denver to Frisco, CO, and it opened my eyes to a major problem: coordinating volunteers shouldn't be this complicated. Between fragmented communication (Facebook, phone calls, emails, texts...), missing handoff details, and manual route planning, I wanted to work on a better solution.

Meet puptransfur.org - purpose-built to make rescue transports seamless and paw-fect. Easily plan routes, coordinate handoffs, manage timezones automatically, and document the journey with photos. Use the demo option to create your own route, or look at an example route: puptransfur.org/route/4041

If you are part of a dog rescue and need to organize dog transports frequently, would you want to use this website? Let me know and I can guide you through the first steps and show how everything works.

Some features: - address completion when setting up the route - suggested handoff locations to easily break up the route into multiple segments - handles timezones by adjusting the times to local times - volunteer information available to other drivers (car model and color, license plate, if available) - integrated email communication when drivers sign up, and when drivers are confirmed

And the best feature I think is this one: this site can bring all volunteer drivers of all rescue organizations together in one place!

This website is free to use for administrators of dog rescues as well as for volunteer drivers. I'd love to get some feedback on this. Thanks for looking!

Comments (3)

crusty · 6h ago
If you don't want to put some people off, you might consider not using restaurants as destinations - grills specifically - or an Asian ef'ing buffet.

Maybe Java coffee cafe instead. No one is going to wonder if you're making a joke about taking surplus dogs to the Asian buffet if it's a coffee shop.

Just sayin'

westurner · 8h ago
- Freight load boards like Uber Freight might work with you and/or run ads for a nonprofit?

- Are there medical records to transfur too?

Notes re: "Veterinary Animal EHR FHIR" and SPDA: Shelter Pet Data Alliance: https://shelterpetdata.org/ and Petco Love Lost, and a list of shelter and sanctuary softwares that don't yet support FHIR: https://github.com/jupyterhealth/jupyter-health-software

westurner · 5h ago