[FEL-L] Sanctuary closing....needs help!!

Sat Aug 12 01:46:41 CDT 2006

Very well said Ray!
Chris Godino Jr.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray" <rrooney at ucwphilly.rr.com>
To: <felines-l at catbox.com>; <lmorin67 at earthlink.net>
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: [FEL-L] Sanctuary closing....needs help!!


> If it's a ploy it's not working anymore. Pat has cried this way every 
> other month and people are ignoring it now.
>
> If you keep having the same "crisis" over and over people stop feeling 
> sorry for you and think you should get your act together.
>
> The problem is that most of these people think they are oh so moral and 
> proper and won't stoop to using the animals to link with people. They want 
> them out of sight and their own secret.
>
> People don't worry about what they never see and resent people who act 
> like they are a plague if they want to see the place. The people and their 
> money go to the open places where they can see and admire and bond with 
> the animals. When the animals MEAN something to the people, when they 
> aren't invisible abstracts, the money flows.
>
> If you act like you are too good to let people associate with you, just 
> hit people with guilt trips, and are generally negative toward every other 
> owner, the public comes to distrust you. Elitism drives them away.
>
> Many of these people are hoarders to some degree. The share the same 
> trait - only THEY can save the poor (fill-in-the-blank) of the world. 
> Nobody else does it right.
>
> And like all hoarders they reach a point where their neighbors have 
> enough, county gets on them, or they collapse financially.
>
> This is a graphic look at the future that ASA and TAOS want to usher in. A 
> time when all the animals are in a few hands, nobody sees or cares for 
> them anymore, and financial collapse starts its march.
>
> Look for a try at a political move. A subsidy program. Welfare for their 
> business.
>
> The handwriting is on the wall - isolation leads to loss of support from 
> concerned people.
>
> ASA and TAOS'  rules against exhibition are a guarantee of financial ruin 
> down the road.
>
> Funny that Tippi, Carole, and the others always violate the rule they 
> impose on others, sometimes by law. They know where the money comes from 
> and what the rule will do to the other members in their field.
>
> This isn't an accident.
>
> Ray
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Laura Morin" <lmorin67 at earthlink.net>
> To: <felines-l at catbox.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 7:57 PM
> Subject: RE: [FEL-L] Sanctuary closing....needs help!!
>
>
>> Very sad, but a good case for DO NOT TAKE IN TOO MANY!!! You can never
>> count on the donations to keep coming in. Never. Learn to say NO when an
>> animal needs a new home. Yes, its hard. but look what is happening
>> here.......tragic. Unless you have won the lottery or are independantly
>> rich.. only take in as many as you can afford. If the money stops coming,
>> how long can you get by before this happens?
>> ( or is this just a fundraising ploy.....?)
>>
>> Laura Morin
>> lmorin67 at earthlink.net
>> www.WildAboutCats.org
>> Exotic Feline Conservation-Education-Rescue
>>
>>
>>
>>> [Original Message]
>>> From: Christina Kimerle <ckimerle at crown-ridge.com>
>>> To: <felines-l at catbox.com>
>>> Date: 8/18/2006 11:20:44 AM
>>> Subject: [FEL-L] Sanctuary closing....needs help!!
>>>
>>> I was sent this email from Mrs. Cotter today. Unfortunately we do not
>> have any more room right now to help this sanctuary out, but I wanted to
>> distribute it out to the list to see if anyone can help these animals. 
>> Have
>> a good day...
>>>
>>> -Christina Kimerle
>>>
>> ____________________________________________________________________________
>> __________________________________________________________
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I don't know if you have read about the sanctuary which will have to
>> close its doors very soon.  I am writing in hopes you will contact them 
>> and
>> possibly could take some of their animals before they euthanize them.
>>>
>>> Their website is.....
>>> http://www.rescuewithoutborders.org/id72.html
>>> It includes this email address.....
>>> jetta at nym.hush.com;
>>>
>>> I am an animal advocate who came across this notice.  I advocate for
>> elephants and frequently items about the big cats do come up.  Please see
>> the article below that I read. Thanks.
>>>
>>> Hoping you can do something to help,
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Mrs. Laura Cotter
>>> Franklinville, N.J.
>>>
>>> This article was released by the Associated Press......
>>>
>>> Updated:2006-08-15 18:09:17
>>> Debt Forces Huge Animal Sanctuary to Close
>>> AP
>>> KEENESBURG, Colo. (Aug. 15) - One of the nation's biggest sanctuaries 
>>> for
>> tigers, lions and bears said Tuesday it is shutting down because of a 
>> lack
>> of donations, and added that it may have to destroy the animals if it
>> cannot find new homes for them.
>>>
>>> The 27-year-old Wild Animal Sanctuary will stay open another two weeks 
>>> at
>> most, executive director Pat Craig said in a statement.
>>>
>>> He said the sanctuary, which costs $15,000 a week to run, was in "major
>> debt" because past donors diverted their money to victims of recent
>> hurricanes, earthquakes and the 2004 tsunami.
>>>
>>> The organization said the move will affect more than 150 wild animals,
>> including 75 tigers, 30 bears, 20 mountain lions and dozens of leopards,
>> African lions and other big cats.
>>>
>>> "Most people logically expect their local zoo could take these animals
>> in, but that isn't the case," Craig said. "The fact is that almost every
>> zoo in the country already has a serious surplus problem of their own and
>> are unable to help in situations like these."
>>>
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