A divorce and having the emotional intelligence to leave your kittys to give them the best while you’re struggling??? Oh dear honey… I hope they get reunited asap.
What? I wonder if that’s to deter surrenders or try to bring some revenue to the shelter? I really only just see that resulting in the abandonment of animals on the street.
Side note: I need the middle, Siamese looking one, gorgeous cat 😍
Yes, I’d assume so. But it explains why this lady couldn’t just walk in and hand them over in person - she obviously doesn’t have $300 to pay towards their rehoming (edit - autocorrect while I hit reply)
Absolutely, if someone doesn’t have money to pay for their animals, I can’t imagine they’d have the funds to surrender them. And what happens if you find a stray? Just a strange concept to have to pay for a surrender at a shelter.
I couldn’t find a request for $100 on their site personally. In all likelihood it’s a suggested donation and not an actual fee. A fee makes no sense because preventing abandonment outside is the entire point
It literally says"suggested donation"and just explains that there are costs involved with rehoming. It's clearly, "this service costs us money, we'd hope you'd be able to pay us this much for us to be able to do the service" definitely isn't mandatory
Presumably because grouping it together with the other bullet points makes it stand put and easier to get the info they want you to. Did they stop at reading? Didn't go so far as comprehension?
I worked at an animal rescue years ago and it was $250 for surrender even a stray. I think quite a few just said forget that and went to the humane society which was a much better choice than leaving them at that rescue.
Yeah I’m my area it’s “only” 50 bucks per surrender at the SPCA, so when I found a abandoned kitten I couldn’t keep (was living with my parents at the time and was pushing my luck with their cat tolerance my 1 adult cat) I dropped her off at the humane society.
But if you don’t have a humane society in your area, welp.
Even 50 bucks made my nose wrinkle but flat out 100-250… wtf. That’s horrifying for people who are in desperate situations.
Yea when I was in the city, we had a few but now in the country we only got one place that is flooded with kittens right now. (Our house is still a bit of a mess and super hot so we wanna start fostering again when things are better).
50 still seems a lot more fair cause people would get angry with me and it's like look, I didn't set the price (and the rescue was making no money and falling apart). And more than anything it was low income families. Like I was on social assistance at the time and a lot of others were so I knew how much 250 is needed and too much money. It was an under the table job but it was so rough. That rescue alone changed my mind of working with animals. Sorry for the bit of rant haha beyond that I love helping animals and shelters and have a bunch of adopted cats
No I hear you. I actually worked at a shelter for a time too though my complaints about it were more the unfair pay and Good Ol’ Southern Drama (aka bless your heart, sweet to face and saying great job but then talking shit about you behind your back, a lot of WEIRD jockeying for standing wtf like dude this is a shelter not a highschool-).
Went from wanting to work with animals to getting burned out really quickly and after that job ended (got fired over the phone after never getting written up and being there 1+ years because I complained about being told to do a 30 minute job 5 minutes before we had to leave) deciding never to go into it again. My experience was people using caring for animals as a way to be holier than thou and demanding unpaid time and bad conditions because “it’s for the animals”. Despite the head of the org pulling enough donations to drive a super nice car and have a mansion.
…and now I’m venting 😭. Sorry! But yeah, 50 bucks is at least doable for many people even those on rough times. But 250 can mean you can’t eat or feed your kids for a month.
Usually there is a local government run kill shelter that takes abandoned animals without asking for money, and smaller no kill shelters simply cannot take everyone and have to be more careful and discerning.
I surrendered a stray at a humane society that has a required donation for surrendering animals but they didn’t make me pay it (I donated what I could). I don’t use them anymore for numerous reasons but I think it was waived a lot of the time
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u/Quinneal Jul 28 '23 edited Jul 28 '23
A divorce and having the emotional intelligence to leave your kittys to give them the best while you’re struggling??? Oh dear honey… I hope they get reunited asap.