Have you contacted airlines as well? Originally thinking I was going to need to have Venus shipped back to AK from LA for a while, and I looked into it a little. Obviously, my 6 pound cat is a lot smaller than Cordy, but I know the service exists and throwing a couple wildly guessed-at numbers into the calculator on the American Airlines site returned a significantly lower figure than that (you'd need to get a kennel and vet stuff for sure). Anyway, just didn't know if you'd looked into it that way or if any other airlines offer pet shipment services? If other folks weren't able to get her to CR to the airport, I could do it, if that ended up being feasible.