I should have seen it coming. Really, it was only a matter of time.
As you all know, we operate a reptile rescue out of our home. We give up living space, food & gas money, vacation time, and lots of sleep in order to help the beasties that need homes. Yes, we do have ads both on this website and on Chaos & Critters site asking for donations. In the entire time we have been in operation the total amount of money and materials donated to our rescue adds up to less than $100. I would ask anyone out there to show me how $100 can house, feed, and give vet care, and find homes for over 50 animals.
Fact is, the money comes out of our pockets. Out of our household budget. Why then do we do it? Because there is a need. Exotics are the last creatures thought of when things go bad. Worse, many folks buy them without any idea of how to care for them. Those animals come to us sick and often starved. We do what we can. To date we have not had one single beastie die in our care. We have saved many that were certain to die, and in a couple of cases have found vets to take the creatures that were beyond our abilities to cure.
Yes, we love animals. We are practical people too. I make no apologies for be reared back in the days when people understood that hunting isn’t just a sport and that it is the American hunter that pays for land and wildlife conservation. Not the idiots throwing red paint of fur coats and feather briefcases. Those fools scream a lot but don’t do a damned thing for real wildlife. Most couldn’t tell the difference between the track of a Whitetail Deer and a Black Bear. They have no idea of the needs of the beast nor any idea of how important the balance is between population and territory. They seem to think that all we need to do is stop hunting and everything will be heavenly. The natural preditors will come back and all ill be as it was before mankind. How wrong they are! Simple fact is that big preditors will not live near man and when they try they become problems when they find our pets and livestock easier pickings than wild creatures.
Still, I post clearly on our website that we are not of the PETA breed and that I am, in fact, a life-long hunter. We work hard on a very limited income (three kids under 5, another one at university, and I’m disabled – not to mention our personal pets) to do our very best for all animals that need good safe homes. The vets that have come by are very impressed with what we have accomplished and seldom a day goes by when I don’t hear from some famiy that is so very happy with their new – healthy – pet.
You casn then imasgine how we feel when we get letters like this one in our mailbox…
I was just looking for groups affected by the hurricane who may need help–what a joke you are–you adopt animals one one hand and murder them in their forest homes with the other?? You actually BOAST about having hunters in your organization?
I am stunned. I will have to be very careful as I look for TRUE animal care organizations to donate to.
-Name withheld to protect the Leftist-
Boast? No, I mention it. Murder? No, the creatures were hunted carefully, humanely taken, and then every bit of them was used for food, crafts, and tools. True animal care? I suppose all those animals that came through this home were actually false animals then. They damned sure did eat a lot for fake animals…
I did send a very polite reply. But the more I sat her the more it grates at my nerves. That’s why I’m posting it here. These people bug the crap out of me. They sit at home and think they have all answers to all problems when they really would never consider the possibility of jumping in and getting their lilly-white hands dirty with actual rescue work themselves.
Lady, keep your money. We will continue to save these beasties without it. We will continue to make sacrifices in our family willingly and happily for what we feel is right. We will also continue to hunt as we see fit, support our local game laws, pay our taxes, and own & shoot our guns. You know, all those things that the far Leftist like to bitch and whine about. Why? Because we are Americans. Proud and Free. While you have the right to not donate to our cause and the right to not like hunting, we have the right to tell you we could not care less about your statements and the right to tell you plainly to simply go to hell.
Omar, out!
I thought you were a Card carrying member of P.E.T.A.?
What happened? I can’t believe you don’t suport People for the Eating of Tasty Animals?!?!? For shame .
Teehee, Loves the nummy deer sausages…hmmm nummy.
Prim
A pox on all of the idiots.
If, for example, you have three guns, you can use the first gun to shoot the other two. But now that gun two and three are shot and broken, what do you use to shoot your first gun?
You sound strangely like a sarcastic ol’ Goat I know…