mal rescue. You can not
consider an adoption fee profit. By the time you take out your feed and
supply expenses, vet care expenses not to mention your time involved, there
is NO profit. People will tell you that you should not make a profit anyway.
Those people think small. If you can make some money such as fund raisers...
it can be used towards medical care for future rescues. It's funny, many of
the people telling us how we should not get paid even though we work hard
and put in long hours, would never do what
we do unless THEY got paid.
People who know nothing about you, the animals you have rescued, how you
care for them, the environment in which you keep and house them, will throw
personal attacks at you. They will accuse you of being selfish, just wanting
attention, making money (although they never tell you how you are making
money), or being an animal collector. You will be called all kinds of names
and have every detail and aspect of your rescue efforts picked apart and
criticized.
Who are doing these attacks and why? People just wanting to cause trouble
for lack of anything better to do. Fellow rescuers who have turned bitter or
become jealous because you are doing rescues better or more efficiently than
they are. What are you as an animal rescuer expected to do? Take the abuse
and walk away. If you defend yourself you will be accused of being too
defensive therefore, you must be hiding something. Each time you make a
statement defending yourself the accuser will tell you how you are wrong. Do
these attackers ever give advice on how you might do things better? NEVER.
They get too much pleasure from attacking without cause, reason or morals.
You will soon come to realize that these type of people
attack for nothing more than the pure pleasure of upsetting you. Do you ever
get offers from people wanting to help you or giving you advice on how you
might improve your rescue efforts? Do you get comments from people
commending you for a job well done? Very rarely and I mean very rarely.
Summary
Lets review again for a minute what is involved with animal rescue and why
we want to do it. It is expensive, not to mention hard work and long hours
without pay. You put up with ungrateful people expecting the world from you,
attack your every effort and accusing you of who knows what. So why do we
rescue animals and where are the rewards involved? The animals. What do I
mean by that statement? Just look into the eyes of an abused, scared or
neglected animal finally starting to trust you and you will know what I
mean. That is all the reward we need. I have seen many abused & neglected
Ferrets who have been beaten and almost starved to death by their previous
owners only to readily love and trust people again asking no more of us than
to just love them. If only more people could be this trusting and forgiving.
If you are not scared out of wanting to rescue animals after reading this
then you have what it takes to rescue animals.
Thank a rescue. We can never hear it to much!!
Erin Bennett
PA Ferret Club & Shelter
www.ferretclub.com
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