No, unfortunately I have to say I agree with that assessment. I feel sort of the same way about some of the exotic animal legislation that has been proposed, particularly the Shamabala stuff. If the Shambala bill had gone through as proposed then hundreds of exotic animals /in sanctuaries already/ would have ended up being put down because they didn't do things exactly as the Shambala people thought it should be done.
Would be nice if people would stop and think about the animals they are supposed to be helping. Hell, there's a cat rescue here in Austin where I swear the lady is in it for profit. She's the one who we got Sam from and was all upset because we insisted she pay for the combo test we were told Sam had already had, went on this tirade about how she's going broke on all these animals and how everyone else charges more than she does and how she has 30 cats in her hous, it just went one, but the upshot was that she wasn't making a profit and she damn well thought she should because 'everyone else was'. I'm just staring at her thinking 'wow, rescue? really?'. Especially since they had on Sam's cage that she didn't get along well with other pets and the lady told us that she ran from everyone else and was food aggressive, etc. She's been fine here and after hearing about 30 cats in her house, I was thinking 'wow, 30 cats, and Sam is smaller than most of the cats I've ever seen, I wonder if she was just intimidated and overwhelmed? ya think?'.
Anyway, I could rant forever about that one, especially since I'm biased because of poor Sam. It's just one of those places that I'd never want to adopt from again.
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Date: 2004-07-23 08:02 pm (UTC)Would be nice if people would stop and think about the animals they are supposed to be helping. Hell, there's a cat rescue here in Austin where I swear the lady is in it for profit. She's the one who we got Sam from and was all upset because we insisted she pay for the combo test we were told Sam had already had, went on this tirade about how she's going broke on all these animals and how everyone else charges more than she does and how she has 30 cats in her hous, it just went one, but the upshot was that she wasn't making a profit and she damn well thought she should because 'everyone else was'. I'm just staring at her thinking 'wow, rescue? really?'. Especially since they had on Sam's cage that she didn't get along well with other pets and the lady told us that she ran from everyone else and was food aggressive, etc. She's been fine here and after hearing about 30 cats in her house, I was thinking 'wow, 30 cats, and Sam is smaller than most of the cats I've ever seen, I wonder if she was just intimidated and overwhelmed? ya think?'.
Anyway, I could rant forever about that one, especially since I'm biased because of poor Sam. It's just one of those places that I'd never want to adopt from again.