I have some questions concerning your love & compassion for ferts.
 
Would you *bill* someone who helped a shelter like to move cages?Clean
cages?If you did a rescue,would you bill the people helping?
 
Let me explain.I recently gave another shelter some of my ferrets to
adopt out as I'd been told they had a waiting list to be fulfilled.I
had them come to my place.I gave cages,water bottles,50# of food,food
bowls,hammies,everything needed.I even helped to transport them.
 
When arriving,I found out that another shelter had just closed & brought
all those ferrets to this shelter.So,it was chaois.
 
The next day,I cleaned like 17 cages to be used for the incoming.Then
when done with that,I helped to pick up left over yard sales that had
been donated to this shelter.And I cut thier front yard.Cleaned a ferts
room.Did I bill them?No way.
 
And then on Monday,there was a pet expo at the fairgrounds.I helped to
put up tents,carry water.One of the shelter Mom's ( this shelter has 2
homes of which house ferts)drew up a poster with an angle fert on it
saying that I was there from my state to assist them/NO WAY!!!  It'snot
done on a computer!!  This shelter Mom is an artist & it hurt both our
feelings to have it yanked down & toold that only this shelter would be
advertised as it was their doings.Ok,I'd been told.
 
I have a man who is the original owner of Casey,Keema & Lexus.He would
love to have them back.Well,the one younger lady running the one house
of the shelter says he has to pay for their time & money spent on
transporting them to thaty shelter.Yes,it was along trip.From Dothan,Al
to Pensacola,Fl.A 3-4 hour drive.
 
And yes,this man has offered to pay adoption fees & whatever they asked.
 
Today,I drove up there to get these 3 ferts.They were going to meet me in
Ft Walton on Sunday.Well,the younger lady with all the young adoptables
calls me yesterday,saying that she thinks Casey is depressed & missing
Gabe of whom I have here.That she is having to force feed.Ok,now I'm very
concerned.Thus the trip today.
 
Excuse me for not calling & making an appointment!!And then I get there &
it's a no way situation.They then claim that they only adopt within a 80
mile radius!!!It's on their site.
 
My only concern was for the sick fert!!  And to get these kids to their
original owner.I was going to keep them here until I leave for OctFest in
MD & take them to thier forever home on the way.
 
Now in all my years of rescueing,& helping other shelters,I've never been
billed for any expenses incurred.Is this a normal practice or just
someone thinking they will make money being a shelter?
 
I will never have any dealings with this shelter again.Not the younger
one.  The older couple I believe does indeed have the ferrets best
interest at heart.They so wanted these kids to be reunited with thier
Dad.But because they are a corperation?  they must vote.You have one
married couple in one house & another in the other.And a sinlge lady.
Out voted for a dollar.Sad but true.
[Posted in FML issue 3911]