candiceboggs
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Ferrets are nature's anti-depressant.
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Post by candiceboggs on Jan 23, 2011 0:55:12 GMT -5
So on facebook through a rescue and RatsPacNW I found out about THIS: www.king5.com/video/featured-videos/Rats-abandoned-at-Everett-pet-store-113521829.htmlFrankly I was horrified, as Everett is a high-kill shelter. The huge Oregon Humane Society usually has 15-20 full-grown rats consistently that rarely seem to get adopted, so FORTY-ONE babies at a rinky-dink high-kill shelter worried me greatly. I'm really happy because RatsPacNW still needed help with this and they're allowing me and Peter to foster some of the babies, holding them in quarantine for three weeks until they can be transported up to British Columbia for the Ratstravaganza show in BC for adoption there, which is open to the public - www.sithrattery.com/Ratstravaganza_2011.htmSo - if anyone is in in the area (Idaho, Oregon, Washington, BC) please join the yahoo list RatsPacNW if you're interested in adopting some baby ratties that really need good homes, and I'm sure they'll be able to work something out to get some to you.
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Post by sherrylynne on Jan 23, 2011 0:58:19 GMT -5
Wish we could, but Alberta is a well know "rat free" zone.
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candiceboggs
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Post by candiceboggs on Jan 23, 2011 1:02:46 GMT -5
Wish we could, but Alberta is a well know "rat free" zone. That's a real shame, I hear Anchorage, AK is the same way. So much misinformation about them, it's just as bad as California making ferrets illegal. *sigh*
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Post by sherrylynne on Jan 23, 2011 1:21:29 GMT -5
Believe me- here, it's worse. Some one had moved here from elsewhere, found out about even pet rats being illegal, and turned him in to the spca. There was a big to-do because the spca paid to have him shipped to a shelter outside the province. Everyone was screaming "it's just a rat" why are you using MY tax dollars for something so foolish General consensus was that the rat should have been euthanized, because it was much more "cost effective", greedy SOB's
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candiceboggs
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Ferrets are nature's anti-depressant.
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Post by candiceboggs on Jan 23, 2011 2:00:19 GMT -5
Believe me- here, it's worse. Some one had moved here from elsewhere, found out about even pet rats being illegal, and turned him in to the spca. There was a big to-do because the spca paid to have him shipped to a shelter outside the province. Everyone was screaming "it's just a rat" why are you using MY tax dollars for something so foolish General consensus was that the rat should have been euthanized, because it was much more "cost effective", greedy SOB's Absolute lunacy, and how cruel. The fuss people make over simple pet rats, not differentiating between Rattus and Norvegicus is ridiculous. But then, people don't think anymore, despite the information superhighway we have now it's more comfortable to stay in their little shells.
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rahrah
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Post by rahrah on Jan 23, 2011 12:31:23 GMT -5
I hate seeing ratties to into shelters... That's how I ended up with 12 fosters at one point. I currently have that number at 5 now
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candiceboggs
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Post by candiceboggs on Jan 25, 2011 22:56:20 GMT -5
Update: The person having me quarantine didn't realize someone else was taking ten ratties to the show from the shelter, so now they suddenly don't need me and aren't willing to help me foster... I just don't get it. Here are 30 babies, young, cute (for NOW, NOT for long) and no one is doing anything, just going off of promises from people on facebook saying they'll drive down and adopt. I'll believe it when I see it, for most people in my area it's 3-4 hours away and we would have been more than willing to pick up quite a few so that people could adopt them without that drive. On Friday and Saturday they will leave the foster homes at 4 1/2 weeks of age and be put up for adoption at the shelter for $3 each or $5 for two. That is less than stores charge for feeders. Now that I can't help, despite pushing to foster/adopt out locally anyway and no one willing to lend cages until mine arrives in the mail, I'm not sure what to do. I could go adopt a few, or not. But I am fed up with this. Sorry, vent. Taking 10 and leaving 30 is doing practically nothing. And the situation seems so dire to me. Gah.
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Post by katt on Jan 27, 2011 17:30:39 GMT -5
Yeah HERE if you get caught with a live Rat, it is $200 per animal. If you are breeding for profit it is $1500 per animal. Then, in addition to that, it is put on your drivers license. (Not sure how they do that but somehow it's attached that you did this "terrible crime"). But Anch is a Port City, and the fear is that these (domesticated haha) rats will escape and survive (riiiiight.... ) and get onto the ships and spread disease to wherever the ship goes and the crew, yadda yadda, eat the ship's supplies etc. It is a very very outdated law. You can own rats in the Valley about 45 min out from Anchorage. But there you are only allowed to own albinos. So it's obvious that it's domestic and it has a lower chance of surviving if it escapes I guess....because a spotted rat is much more wild looking and more able to survive.... Silly silly silly laws!
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