IgChick I want to hear moreabout this mission-is the story on your site?n/p

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Posted by S+S Mom on December 12, 2001 at 15:35:06:

In Reply to: Re: Looking for opinions posted by Ig chick on December 12, 2001 at 11:58:15:

: No, I for one do not consider purchasing an animal from a pet store "rescuing". Even if you pay a reduced price the answer is still no. When doing rescue work on the level that myself and several others here do it, money goes for food, supplies and medical care, not animals.

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: When you buy an animal at a pet store, no matter what reason you give yourself, you are supporting that pet store. Let me put it another way. You walk into Kill A Pet at your local mall and see a half dead emaciated iguana in a 10 gallon tank with a price tag of $20.00 and a sale sign that says reduced 50%. You are horrified at the condition of the ig and feel horrible that it looks that way sitting in its own feces. You decide to "rescue" the iguana and hand the clerk $10.00 which he cheerfully puts in the cash register. That money gets deposited into Kill A Pet's bank account and next time they call their distributor, they take your $10.00 and purchase 5 more iguanas. Three weeks later you are back in the shop and this time there are 3, not 1, iguanas that look like the little guys you purchased for $10.00. Are you going to purchase those too? Are you going to hand over your hard earned money to the pet store for some sick animals, let everyone in the store see you buy animals from that store and then go home and wait for the process to start all over again?

: I've grown to hate the word rescue over the past few months and how people toss it around so lightly. To me, rescue means to take a living creature out of a near death situation. Example -Just recently we took a sub-adult iguana out of a house about an hour away from here. He was coverd in thermal burns that were so bad there were no scales on his belly, only the soft white tissue the seperates the organs from the scales. He was never fed anything other than lettuce and pellets. Not only was he never given any UV, his owner actually said to me "You know you're not supposed to take your reptiles out into natural sunlight don't you? It makes them aggressive." A total of 8 animals left their single wide moble home that day, 7 of which, both desert and tropical species, had been kept free roaming in the same tiny room. While originally the person was surrendering some of the animals willingly, we would not leave until all the animals were surrendered.

: Additionally, I've had more than one encounter with people who paid large sums of money to "rescue" adult iguanas out of pet stores, only to treat them as badly as the pet store did. So, no, no matter what the circumstances, I for one do not ever consider purchase to be rescue.

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: : No, I for one do not consider purchasing an animal from a pet store "rescuing". Even if you pay a reduced price the answer is still no. When doing rescue work on the level that myself and several others here do it, money goes for food, supplies and medical care, not animals. : : : : When you buy an animal at a pet store, no matter what reason you give yourself, you are supporting that pet store. Let me put it another way. You walk into Kill A Pet at your local mall and see a half dead emaciated iguana in a 10 gallon tank with a price tag of $20.00 and a sale sign that says reduced 50%. You are horrified at the condition of the ig and feel horrible that it looks that way sitting in its own feces. You decide to "rescue" the iguana and hand the clerk $10.00 which he cheerfully puts in the cash register. That money gets deposited into Kill A Pet's bank account and next time they call their distributor, they take your $10.00 and purchase 5 more iguanas. Three weeks later you are back in the shop and this time there are 3, not 1, iguanas that look like the little guys you purchased for $10.00. Are you going to purchase those too? Are you going to hand over your hard earned money to the pet store for some sick animals, let everyone in the store see you buy animals from that store and then go home and wait for the process to start all over again? : : I've grown to hate the word rescue over the past few months and how people toss it around so lightly. To me, rescue means to take a living creature out of a near death situation. Example -Just recently we took a sub-adult iguana out of a house about an hour away from here. He was coverd in thermal burns that were so bad there were no scales on his belly, only the soft white tissue the seperates the organs from the scales. He was never fed anything other than lettuce and pellets. Not only was he never given any UV, his owner actually said to me "You know you're not supposed to take your reptiles out into natural sunlight don't you? It makes them aggressive." A total of 8 animals left their single wide moble home that day, 7 of which, both desert and tropical species, had been kept free roaming in the same tiny room. While originally the person was surrendering some of the animals willingly, we would not leave until all the animals were surrendered. : : Additionally, I've had more than one encounter with people who paid large sums of money to "rescue" adult iguanas out of pet stores, only to treat them as badly as the pet store did. So, no, no matter what the circumstances, I for one do not ever consider purchase to be rescue.

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