Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ayyukan Meares sun haɗa da zaɓar da siyan karnuka 34 da dawakai 20 don binciken sannan kuma jigilar su daga Siberia zuwa New Zealand ta hanyar Japan inda za su shiga cikin binciken. Meares bai san komai game da ponies ba, amma duk da haka ya bi umarnin Scott kuma ya tafi Nikolayevsk, Siberia don zaɓar karnuka. A can ya sadu da Dimitri Gerov, ƙwararren mai jan kare, wanda ya taimaka masa ya zaɓi karnukan da ake buƙata don ayyukan tsere kuma wanda daga baya aka ɗauke shi a matsayin mai jan kare don binciken. Meares kuma ya ɗauki dan wasan Rasha Anton Omelchenko a matsayin ango a kan tafiyar. Daga nan suka yi tafiya zuwa Vladivostok inda aka sayi dawakai na Siberia. Scott musamman yana son fararen doki don tafiyar saboda a lokacin 1907 Nimrod Expedition
, Ernest Shackleton ya lura cewa fararen fararen fararen fararen fararen fararen fata sun tsira da fararen fararen fata. Oates, Kyaftin din Sojan Burtaniya a kan tafiyar wanda aikinsa shi ne ya kula da dawakai, ya yi baƙin ciki a zaɓin Meares kamar yadda suke da "irin waɗannan rashi kamar: kunkuntar kirji, buga gwiwoyi,... tsufa" kuma sun kasance "mafi yawan manyan da na taɓa gani". Da zarar "Terra Nova" Tafiya ta fara, Meares da Gerov sun kula da karnuka. Bayan ya tashi a matsayin wani ɓangare na ƙungiyar tallafi a kan tafiya zuwa Kudancin Kudancin a farkon Nuwamba 1911, Meares da Rasha Gerov sun koma arewa tare da karnuka masu tsere a ranar 14 ga Disamba a gindin dutsen kankara na Beardmore.