I recently had a bad experience with an animal rescue and wanted to warn people to be careful falling for a sob story and agreeing to take in someone else's animal that is no longer wanted.
A local animal breeder contacted me and told me that she had been contacted repeatedly by a woman who wanted someone to take over her pet rabbit. I agreed to talk to her and look at the rabbit. When she brought it over she talked in a rambling disjointed fashion for about an hour about all the things she does with the rabbit to make it feel happy and all of its requirements. I finally got out of her at the end that she was getting rid of it because her children lost interest and she was allergic.
She asked me if it was alright if she brought the children over from time to time to visit the rabbit and wanted me to notify her if it died so they wouldn't come over and find out that way.
The rabbit did nicely for about two weeks and then became listless and died in 24 hours. I called the woman as a courtesy to tell her and she went ballistic on me, even calling back a few hours later and ranting at my secretarty because I had buried it in the compost pile instead of next to Michael Jackson or something and wanted to come over and retrieve the body so she could erect a memorial to to it someplace. I also found out that the rabbit may have been much older than she told me.
I have not called her back on that because if she comes over now she will just cause an unpleasant scene and I don't need to deal with that.
I no sooner finished that saga than someone came over who wanted me to take two male fainting goats, since I have those. Having learned from that experience I refused, plus that would give me too many males running around and I don't relish have to fix them and have no place really to isolate them right away to make sure they don't have any diseases.
Be careful out there!
A local animal breeder contacted me and told me that she had been contacted repeatedly by a woman who wanted someone to take over her pet rabbit. I agreed to talk to her and look at the rabbit. When she brought it over she talked in a rambling disjointed fashion for about an hour about all the things she does with the rabbit to make it feel happy and all of its requirements. I finally got out of her at the end that she was getting rid of it because her children lost interest and she was allergic.
She asked me if it was alright if she brought the children over from time to time to visit the rabbit and wanted me to notify her if it died so they wouldn't come over and find out that way.
The rabbit did nicely for about two weeks and then became listless and died in 24 hours. I called the woman as a courtesy to tell her and she went ballistic on me, even calling back a few hours later and ranting at my secretarty because I had buried it in the compost pile instead of next to Michael Jackson or something and wanted to come over and retrieve the body so she could erect a memorial to to it someplace. I also found out that the rabbit may have been much older than she told me.
I have not called her back on that because if she comes over now she will just cause an unpleasant scene and I don't need to deal with that.
I no sooner finished that saga than someone came over who wanted me to take two male fainting goats, since I have those. Having learned from that experience I refused, plus that would give me too many males running around and I don't relish have to fix them and have no place really to isolate them right away to make sure they don't have any diseases.
Be careful out there!
