OT Fostering animals

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I wish my rescue efforts extended to farm animals.  Right now it is confined to

dogs (5) and cats (around 30?).  I live in a very poor, rural area of Arkansas,

and several people have moved away and left cats and/or dumped them here.  I am

very poor myself, living on a disability check, but with the help of a local

rescue agency I am having them spayed and neutered.  I have gotten all the

females done, and now I am starting on the males.  The agency pays most of the

cost, but I still have to pay $12/cat, so I can only do a few at a time.  I pay

for all the food myself, and it is not easy!!

 

My friends and family cannot understand why I have undertaken this task, but how

could I NOT do it?  It is very rewarding to me to know that I am making a

difference in their lives, and preventing them from producing even more unwanted

animals.  I have the utmost respect for anyone involved in animal rescue, as it

is hard work, and expensive as well!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

--- On Tue, 10/28/08, Audrey Snyder <AudeeBird wrote:

 

Audrey Snyder <AudeeBird

OT Fostering animals

 

Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 8:42 AM

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sounds like your home is never boring, either!

My aunt has been in dog and cat rescue for 15 years, and just in the last

couple of years started with horses. She grew up in town, like me, never had

the opportunity to be around horses much. She's really enjoying them,

learning how different they are than cats and dogs. They're pretty similar

to parrots, from what I hear from her -- both prey animals, so we have to

interact with them very differently than the little furry predators that

sleep in our beds. I've only been around goats from petting zoos when I was

little -- my parents had to drag me out of petting zoos! I liked the goats,

they seemed very gentle. Yes, it's expensive, but it's rewarding, isn't it?

 

Audrey S.

 

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Michelle Dixon <

Petagoatjunction@ hotmail.com> wrote:

 

> I don't foster animals, but we do rescue. We have 4 horses, one was

> extremely thin when we got him, we have 2 others that came because no

> one else wanted them. We do goat rescue and have 18. All but a couple

> were rescued from either a future in the freezer or bbq. Some were from

> a breeding program and were no longer able to be bred so they were no

> longer useful. One angora goat is crippled, one pygmy is partially

> blind. We also have 4 dogs, 3 cats, a ferret, tarantula and cockatiel.

> We have had to say no more animals because of the feed bills, cost of

> hay, etc. But I know that we will break down and take more if we hear

> of a real need.

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> Michelle

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