no and msg for Christy too -a little clarification

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Posted by Ig Chick on December 12, 2001 at 20:26:11:

In Reply to: IgChick I want to hear moreabout this mission-is the story on your site?n/p posted by S+S Mom on December 12, 2001 at 15:35:06:

No, we haven't had the chance to post the whole episode because there is still one more animal (not a reptile) in the person's posession that I am trying to liberate. We never mentioned our website to them but on the off chance they see it, it would ruin my chances of getting that last animal out. Once the final chapter has been written and I actually have time to update things, it will be on there along with pictures. I've never seen such horrible thermal burns in all my life.

Christy -I truely believe that in your specific instance you did rescue Double D from death, regardless of the fact you paid for her. There are other folks who acted in a similar manner and they too rescued their igs from certain death, even though they paid the pet store for the animal. I shoud have been clearer in thought as I was being rather broad in my thoughts and referring to hatchlings in pet shops for the most part. We are starting to see an alarming trend in our area of pet stores selling second hand iguanas and they are in horrible condition for the most part. Please forgive me if my thought was not well communicated.

I still believe that purchase is not rescue. If people got it into their heads that this was the case, many of the iguanas we have personally helped would never have come here. In the past 12 months the three of us (as in Mr D, myself and our more silent partner Derek) have hands on helped 17 iguanas, a skink, an american alligator, a caiman, 2 bearded dragons, 2 savannah monitors and atleast 2 dozen snakes. It has cost thousands of dollars to care for them, pay increased utility bills, build enclosures, purchase lights and heaters, purchase food and provide vet care -there is no way we could have done this if we had to pay for the animals as well.

IMHO the word "rescue" gets thrown around so much any more that I don't know if people really understand what it means. I've been trying to think of a way to define what I am talking about but it;s hard to. Maybe something along the lines of this -Geo was rescued by BRRE from horrible conditions. Once he was in better medical condition and someone adopts him, while technically he was a "rescued iguana" -the person who adopts him will not be rescuing him, they will be adopting him. They would be "rescuing" him if they were the ones that had to go wade through all the iguana poop and chicken feces covered wood he had been living in and pay to rehabilitate them.

It is another of my opinions that people who do rescue get the short end of the stick many times. It takes a huge emotional,, not to mention financial toll to do rescue work. It makes me smile when I see Jiff or someone else post about a success, the reality is though, most of us only post the happy things that happen -you rarely hear the sad stories from any of us. When you are in rescue you must take the good with the bad and deal with each the best you can. This includes knowing when it is time to make decisions in the best interest of an animal vs. the human. When we did the NH show, a supposed breader surrendered a king snake to us that was in such bad condition and so full of infection and scar tissue that the kindest thing we could do was pay to have him humanely euthanised.

My hat goes off to anyone who rescues any kind of animal from any bad situation. But purchasing an animal, regardless of what kind, from a pet store that sells and mistreats them on a regular basis is not doing anything but lining the pet store's pockets with money and giving them the green light to go on mistreating the animals there.

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: No, we haven't had the chance to post the whole episode because there is still one more animal (not a reptile) in the person's posession that I am trying to liberate. We never mentioned our website to them but on the off chance they see it, it would ruin my chances of getting that last animal out. Once the final chapter has been written and I actually have time to update things, it will be on there along with pictures. I've never seen such horrible thermal burns in all my life. : Christy -I truely believe that in your specific instance you did rescue Double D from death, regardless of the fact you paid for her. There are other folks who acted in a similar manner and they too rescued their igs from certain death, even though they paid the pet store for the animal. I shoud have been clearer in thought as I was being rather broad in my thoughts and referring to hatchlings in pet shops for the most part. We are starting to see an alarming trend in our area of pet stores selling second hand iguanas and they are in horrible condition for the most part. Please forgive me if my thought was not well communicated. : I still believe that purchase is not rescue. If people got it into their heads that this was the case, many of the iguanas we have personally helped would never have come here. In the past 12 months the three of us (as in Mr D, myself and our more silent partner Derek) have hands on helped 17 iguanas, a skink, an american alligator, a caiman, 2 bearded dragons, 2 savannah monitors and atleast 2 dozen snakes. It has cost thousands of dollars to care for them, pay increased utility bills, build enclosures, purchase lights and heaters, purchase food and provide vet care -there is no way we could have done this if we had to pay for the animals as well. : IMHO the word "rescue" gets thrown around so much any more that I don't know if people really understand what it means. I've been trying to think of a way to define what I am talking about but it;s hard to. Maybe something along the lines of this -Geo was rescued by BRRE from horrible conditions. Once he was in better medical condition and someone adopts him, while technically he was a "rescued iguana" -the person who adopts him will not be rescuing him, they will be adopting him. They would be "rescuing" him if they were the ones that had to go wade through all the iguana poop and chicken feces covered wood he had been living in and pay to rehabilitate them. : It is another of my opinions that people who do rescue get the short end of the stick many times. It takes a huge emotional,, not to mention financial toll to do rescue work. It makes me smile when I see Jiff or someone else post about a success, the reality is though, most of us only post the happy things that happen -you rarely hear the sad stories from any of us. When you are in rescue you must take the good with the bad and deal with each the best you can. This includes knowing when it is time to make decisions in the best interest of an animal vs. the human. When we did the NH show, a supposed breader surrendered a king snake to us that was in such bad condition and so full of infection and scar tissue that the kindest thing we could do was pay to have him humanely euthanised. : My hat goes off to anyone who rescues any kind of animal from any bad situation. But purchasing an animal, regardless of what kind, from a pet store that sells and mistreats them on a regular basis is not doing anything but lining the pet store's pockets with money and giving them the green light to go on mistreating the animals there.

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