gentle giants
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Jenk wrote:
Thankfully, there are people like yourself that, even if they don't know much to begin with, are wiling to learn and turn out to be great pet owners. There are probably more than I think, really, it's just that I only see the bad ones when I am doing rescues. I have not really talked to the owners of this petstore to sort of feel them out about the issue of selling rabbits, but I do know that they buy the ferrets they sell, and some of their pet supplies, from Marshall's. I have considered trying to start a petition asking them to stop selling rabbits, at least, but I'm not sure how much good it would do, since I know they are making plenty of money off the rabbits and all the supplies they sell along with the rabbits.gentle giants wrote:I'd like to add two things:I am also really ticked about the whole petstore thing, this is the fourth or fifth rabbit I have gotten either called about or taken in from that one d*** petstore, it's thankfully the only one in the area that sells small animals.... I was just so mad about her total casual attitude, and that she obviously really couldn't care less about the rabbit, I jsut wasn't thinking straight. So now I am worried about the poor little rabbit as well as being mad. I could just KILL some people!!
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1) I'm one of those people who made the foolish pet-store mistake. And, yet, I wouldn't trade my girls for the world and don't think that they could have a much better home. (Call me biased. ) Plus, I learned a valuable lesson about adopting rabbits, which I will do for remainder of my life (for as long as I can properly care for them).
2) Your feelings of frustration with and anger toward humanity isn't abnormal (IMO) for anyone who deals with animal rescue. I've a former co-worker who once volunteered at a local shelter. As a result, she lost a lot of faith in the human race, after seeing the various abuse cases come through the door. She had one case of a woman calling to ask if she could drop off her year-old Irish Wolfhound because she didn't know when she bought the dog that it would get so big. Ummm...It's an Irish Wolfhound!