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Tik Tok is awash with "flat Earth" morons that would believe this in an instant!

 

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Camouflage hooman...I has it!

 

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Tik Tok is awash with "flat Earth" morons that would believe this in an instant!

I never go near that crazy place.

 

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[ThatPlace928]

This happened at our local Walmart just a couple weeks ago, too. How do you hit the only stop sign in the parking lot?

 

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Fun fact........ hahaha!

 

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Fun fact........ hahaha!

Its a steam engine

 

[HCHTech]

The saddest part of rescue is the people who mislead you into thinking they are good, responsible, caring persons.

This is a topic near and dear to me - don't get me started - haha. My wife and I have been involved with greyhound rescue for let's see....29 years now. We were heavily involved in one of the groups (board members, foster family management, etc.) when we lived in MA, but since we moved down to Pennsylvania, we've just been a foster family.

One of the smartest things placement groups do is vet vet vet any prospective owner. Home visits & discussion with all adults in the household prior to adoption, meeting all of the current pets a family might have, classes for prospective owners to get to know a few dogs, information gathering on who their current veterinarian is, and even recommendation to the "greyhound-specialists" veterinarians since they have some breed-specific things to watch out for (they are very sensitive to anesthesia, for example and tolerate one group of standard pain meds way better than others). They also do a couple of monthly post-adoption visits to assess how the dog is "fitting in".

The dogs are also fostered before they are adopted, so that their personalities can be known, their ability to tolerate cats, for example, can be known, there is a whole process. Lastly, it isn't free to adopt a dog, so there is definitely a personal, emotional and financial commitment that each prospective adopter has to meet.

In MA, we were personally involved in the adopter-approval process, which required a meeting of at least 3 members of the organization, and it didn't always go well. There is nothing worse than having to tell someone they don't really meet the standard - well, except for having to take a dog back because they were unwittingly injured by bad practices of their newbie owners.

There is also nothing more rewarding than finding exactly the right family for a shall we say "difficult to place" dog. We fostered a very sweet female who stopped racing because of an unknown injury or condition, she just wouldn't run anymore. The racing kennel wanted to euthanize the dog, of course, but we took her in and after some testing, it was determined that the dog had lupus! Very unusual, but very easily treated with a single steroid pill each day. As soon as she started the meds, she became a normal dog. Because we disclosed this condition which was likely to be with the dog throughout her whole life, no one wanted to adopt her. We fostered her for over a year. We made an appeal on the early internet, and a woman appears out of the woodwork who also had lupus. She was on the same meds as the dog! They were together 7 years if I recall correctly. It was one of the better matches we made for sure.

 

[ThatPlace928]

This is a topic near and dear to me - don't get me started - haha. My wife and I have been involved with greyhound rescue for let's see....29 years now. We were heavily involved in one of the groups (board members, foster family management, etc.) when we lived in MA, but since we moved down to Pennsylvania, we've just been a foster family.

One of the smartest things placement groups do is vet vet vet any prospective owner. Home visits & discussion with all adults in the household prior to adoption, meeting all of the current pets a family might have, classes for prospective owners to get to know a few dogs, information gathering on who their current veterinarian is, and even recommendation to the "greyhound-specialists" veterinarians since they have some breed-specific things to watch out for (they are very sensitive to anesthesia, for example and tolerate one group of standard pain meds way better than others). They also do a couple of monthly post-adoption visits to assess how the dog is "fitting in".

The dogs are also fostered before they are adopted, so that their personalities can be known, their ability to tolerate cats, for example, can be known, there is a whole process. Lastly, it isn't free to adopt a dog, so there is definitely a personal, emotional and financial commitment that each prospective adopter has to meet.

In MA, we were personally involved in the adopter-approval process, which required a meeting of at least 3 members of the organization, and it didn't always go well. There is nothing worse than having to tell someone they don't really meet the standard - well, except for having to take a dog back because they were unwittingly injured by bad practices of their newbie owners.

There is also nothing more rewarding than finding exactly the right family for a shall we say "difficult to place" dog. We fostered a very sweet female who stopped racing because of an unknown injury or condition, she just wouldn't run anymore. The racing kennel wanted to euthanize the dog, of course, but we took her in and after some testing, it was determined that the dog had lupus! Very unusual, but very easily treated with a single steroid pill each day. As soon as she started the meds, she became a normal dog. Because we disclosed this condition which was likely to be with the dog throughout her whole life, no one wanted to adopt her. We fostered her for over a year. We made an appeal on the early internet, and a woman appears out of the woodwork who also had lupus. She was on the same meds as the dog! They were together 7 years if I recall correctly. It was one of the better matches we made for sure.

I love this story and I love rescuers as much as I did rescuing. The worst part is the heartbreak, when the most feeble of the rescues pass. We loved them anyway and maybe more because of whatever affliction they had. And we keep going, because the good always outweighs the bad, even if it's just in our minds. It's how we're wired.

 

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I have 3 parrots, two of which are rescue birds, and we have had (now deceased, after very long and happy lives) rescue parrots/cockatoos as well.

The following is not to denigrate any sort of person involved in any sort of animal rescue, but unless you're talking truly exotic animals, trying to rehome parrots to people who actually understand what it means to own and care for one is rigut up there at the top of the rescue and rehoming mountain!

 

[ThatPlace928]

I have 3 parrots, two of which are rescue birds, and we have had (now deceased, after very long and happy lives) rescue parrots/cockatoos as well.

The following is not to denigrate any sort of person involved in any sort of animal rescue, but unless you're talking truly exotic animals, trying to rehome parrots to people who actually understand what it means to own and care for one is rigut up there at the top of the rescue and rehoming mountain!

I agree and there are certain breeds of cats and dogs that can only go to experienced owners. Thankfully, all mine were domestics, none that were breed-specific.

Side note: I had my nose pierced by a parrot about 45 years ago. They can be so mean but they are funny characters, too.

 

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I agree and there are certain breeds of cats and dogs that can only go to experienced owners. Thankfully, all mine were domestics, none that were breed-specific.

Side note: I had my nose pierced by a parrot about 45 years ago. They can be so mean but they are funny characters, too.

I've seen/heard some amazing things from "Cockies" and Galah's. They are highly intelligent and learn quickly.
Aussie "larrikins" teach them all sorts of words and phrases and yes, some are quite shocking lol.

I heard one saying "Go you farkin Crows!" In reference to Australian Football Leagues Adelaide "Crows" Football Club.

 

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