Pet Travel Services
Dogmovers Pet Transport are a small family business based in South East QLD and NSW. We have several different levels of Interstate Pet Transport services running regularly throughout the Eastern States of Australia from Adelaide to Cairns. Dogmovers, operating since 1993 and under the current family management for the past 21 years, proudly operate the largest independant network of Pet Transport Routes by road in Australia. Plus we can assist with Air based services to destinations further afield or to help link our regional clients with the main city airports. Our most common routes are covered weekly as part of our Express services with trips between the major cities generally being same day or overnight services. More specialised or individually customised services run less regularly on demand. See below for details regarding each service.
Express Services
These are our regular Weekly or Fortnightly scheduled runs with set timetables similar to a bus service. These are Regular, Reliable and economical services which cover all the main towns and cities on the primary East Coast routes between Cairns and Adelaide. Pricing is based on having our clients meet us at central points in most towns and the cost of each trip is spread between many customers to keep the cost down. We use a set regional pricing structure with discounts available to regular clients, breeders and Rescue Organisations. Your pets will be personally looked after by our friendly, professional drivers who will be with your pets the whole way, including overnight. Schedules allow for regular comfort stops, good quality food is provided and your pets will have water available at all times. Our vehicles and Floats include a range of Vans and Buses plus professionally designed Pet Transport floats to ensure your pets comfort. These services cater for all pets including small puppies and kittens, cats, poultry and other small animals right through to large dogs with a limited number of spaces for Extra Large dogs. You can view upcoming service dates on our Interstate run calendar.
When enquiring regarding transport for extra large dogs, Brachycephalic breed pets, senior animals (10 years plus) or pets with specific health conditions we will seek further information and may recommend the Premium or Priority services outlined below.
Door to Door services are not standard on our express services but are available at an additional cost in the Major cities and may be available in other towns on demand. Where we are unable to provide this service ourselves we may have local Pet Taxi services that we work with which we can recommend.
Premium Services
These are more Specialty Door to Door services designed to cater for Senior Pets, Extra Large Breed Dogs, BOAS Affected Brachycephalic animals, Pets with special needs or simply for clients who would prefer a greater degree of attention or feedback during the trip. These services are more loosely scheduled but have greater flexibility. We use dual Air Conditioned Vehicles only with much smaller numbers of animals on board, typically 3 or 4 with a usual Maximum of 6-8 pets. This ensures our drivers can spend additional social or care time with each pet and provide a greater level of feedback including Pictures or videos to our clients. The cost of each trip is spread between several customers and the prices are calculated using a per km charge which increases for pets travelling to more remote areas. there is no set schedule for our Premium services. Common regions are likely to be serviced Fortnightly with more remote regions being roughly Monthly. Because these trips are scheduled based on demand plus the availability of appropriate drivers and vehicles, typically you will require at least two weeks notice to secure a spot. Due to the more varied nature of these trips slight variations may also be made as additional bookings and the final route are confirmed.
Priority Services
Our Priority Service is a fully Individualized trip typically catering specifically to just your own Pet Families needs whether you have 1 animal or 30. We can fully customise a trip to suit your own needs and time frame. This service can cater to extreme or special needs, specific times and dates and can travel anyywhere utilising any combination from our fleet of SUV’s, Vans, Floats and Pet Transport Buses. This is our most flexible option and can work out very economically if you have a large number or variety of pets to relocate. The cost of each trip is calculated using a daily rate for the complete round trip.
Because these trips are scheduled based on the availability of appropriate drivers and vehicles, typically you may require at least two weeks notice to secure your preferred date.
Flight Services
Whilst Dogmovers primary services are by road we can not cover all destinations for logistical and safety reasons. For transport to or from destinations further afield such as Darwin, Perth and Tasmania we can assist you with flights via Virgin Airlines.
For clients living in regional areas many hours from the main city airports we can arrange combined road/air based services to cut down your own travel time or to eliminate the need for animals to undertake multiple leg airline journeys with uncertain stopovers.
In these instances we can collect your pets from you in regional centres and deliver your Pets to the main city airports for single leg flights to their destination. Where overnight care is required prior to airport lodgement this is provided by us at our own facilities in QLD & NSW.
South East Queensland
Pet Taxi
On top of the above interstate services, we also operate our own Pet Taxi service throughout the greater South East Queensland and the Hunter Valley / newcastle regions.
Our Weekly Interstate Pet Transport Services
We have regular weekly Express trips each week between Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane & Cairns by most main routes including through Central Victoria, the NSW Riverina, Canberra and the northern NSW New England Highway Regions.
Our Fortnightly Interstate Services
Additionally to the above weekly services the Queensland run is expanded every fortnight to include Central Queensland and we head further out into Northern NSW via Dubbo, the Central West and the Northern Newell Highway region. In the South we service the primary routes between both South Australia – Vic. and South Australia – NSW Fortnightly.
