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Post by connie on Aug 13, 2007 12:00:04 GMT -5
When I took over the shelter back in Oct. 2005, there were two other people the former shelter director asked to take over as well. One lasted just a few months, then moved out of the area. The other, well, I don't want to say anything bad, but I know he wasn't taking the ferrets to the vet, has moved around quite a bit, and I've even had people take surrenders to him, go back and get them, then bring them to me. He also combines the shelter ferrets with his personals. I haven't heard from him in months and months. He's had one ferret listed on petfinder for several months, none listed on his 'happy tails' page, so I assume he's hasn't had any adoptions and thus quit sheltering.
He's on my IM friends list, even though he's never on line. Now, next to his name, he has "only 1 shelter in the Austin area - what am I chopped liver?"
So I assume he saw the article on my shelter. I didn't write the article, and the writer indicated to me she couldn't find any other shelters in the area. I'm not sure if I should email him and apologize to him, or just let it go.
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Post by ninjaj on Aug 13, 2007 12:32:08 GMT -5
I'd say let it go.
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Post by Crystal on Aug 13, 2007 12:39:46 GMT -5
You have nothing to apologize about. Let him be a baby
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Post by melinda on Aug 13, 2007 14:10:05 GMT -5
I agree with Crystal - you have no reason to apologize.
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Post by Krissy on Aug 13, 2007 15:30:46 GMT -5
you didn't do anything so why feel bad? from the sounds of it he's not doing much to be known as a shelter.
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Post by Saibellemay on Aug 13, 2007 17:34:34 GMT -5
you didn't do anything so why feel bad? from the sounds of it he's not doing much to be known as a shelter. Yeah, I agree. You'd think he would be trying to further his cause. |
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Post by johncodetester on Aug 13, 2007 17:36:49 GMT -5
That wouldn't the the "place" I got Wash Machine, was it  |
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Post by mlove on Aug 13, 2007 18:07:26 GMT -5
You did nothing wrong that you have to apologize for. If he has "issues" it is his own problem. No matter how hard you try you can't make everyone happy.
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Post by connie on Aug 13, 2007 19:25:16 GMT -5
That wouldn't the the "place" I got Wash Machine, was it yes, I believe it is. |
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Post by shelleys on Aug 13, 2007 23:10:04 GMT -5
If you were truly running a ferret shelter wouldn't you make yourself easy to find? I did extensive research before I came to you, Connie, and there was not anyone else in our area that I could find. What is kind of funny is that I kept running into the Ferret Waystation. (once w/ google, then on Petfinder and finally I saw a post you had on CL about ferrets up for adoption) You were also listed on ferret.org. I figured I just couldn't get away from you Anyway, I say you are doing your job helping these little fuzzies! Don't worry about what other people think. You are doing a great job! Shelley |
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Post by shadypinesferret on Aug 14, 2007 7:31:17 GMT -5
I've been dealing with someone more or less in my area who is trying to start a shelter - I guess she started around the same time I did. Every time I do some sort of advertisement on craigslist (usually trying to get people to my website or to email me so I can regale them with ferret stories and catch newbies before they go buy a petstore ferret), she has to come up with one of her own.
Problem is, she "adopted" out two ferrets to me around last March. She told me they had just been vetted and that they were healthy. The female was just thin but healthy, and the hair loss on the male was "definitely not adrenal." The female died in less than a month, in my vet's waiting room, and the male died of his adrenal, despite melatonin treatment, a few months later.
Now she's all angry with me because I won't help her rescue with publicity and hand-outs. I told her I wanted proof that her ferrets are going to a real vet, getting real vaccines (at least rabies, but distemper makes sense in a shelter situation) and that she's doing ADV testing. She's mad that "I don't trust her."
What all this gets down to is that if someone isn't helping rescue work, they're hurting it. You don't owe this guy anything if he wasn't doing things right.
(Though I have to add that I AM helping this other rescue as much as I can - explaining ADV testing, trying to help her get on the right track. Considering I can find 5-10 ferrets on craigslist in my area at any one time, we need as much GOOD rescue as we can get)
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