Makes me sick that this rescue is going to "PROFIT" from unloading the CRAP that, what they call rescued. Its ridiculous, at best, to think that if they "adopt" all these animals out in a fast fashion that they wont profit, especially if feeders are going to be donated.
I do not have time to address the incorrect assumptions in your post in general here regarding rescue work because I am providing critical care for 70 more animals this month than I was last month plus working my real job that pays my bills, taking care of my family, and trying to take care of the rehabbed but unadoptable rescues living out their lives at my house that cost me plenty and never paid back. But as a person who runs one of the foster based rescues that took in some of these animals, I am compelled to let you in on the reality that all of us are facing with these animals that you think we are somehow making a profit on, and maybe by example it will provide you with a little insight into what I and most of the real rescue organizations that I know of do.
These animals are in horrible shape. HORRIBLE! They are riddled with internal and external parasites, they have viral infections, bacterial infections, untreated injuries, missing limbs, dehydration and they are emaciated. I have hauled animals from this raid to my vet 1-2 times per week since I brought them home for assessment and treatment because EVERYONE to this point, USGE AND the SPCA, failed them miserably because they were all in over their heads. I am not going to debate sides here, but EVERYONE to this point is culpable in their condition, from the industry that makes them disposable pets to the importer who forgot that they are living things to the very people who made it their business to save them and then let them deteriorate further, and I can tell you that their condition is not good. And now you all want to shift your ire to the rescues that have been burdened with these animals?? You probably only saw a limited number of the 100 or so animals that that VA rescue took because out of all of them that didn’t flat die in the first week, those are probably the only ones that are even remotely adoptable at this point. NONE of the animals that I have at my facility and NONE of the animals with my fosters are adoptable at this point.
I and my fosters have already spent much of our own money on housing, food, electricity, medicine, bulbs, and time. Emaciated animals require more than the usual amounts of food and supplements. We will NEVER see what we have put into these animals back. Some of these animals might not ever even be adoptable. You can bet that my shelter WILL charge a small adoption fee for those that are, if for no other reason than to give a dollar water dragon that survives the worst odds possible as the expendable commodity that it was, some worth as a living thing. We will be lucky to make some minuscule fraction of what we have already put into these animals back in the form of a small adoption fee. A business might not put money into saving an animal because they don't deem it economically viable, but we do because we are about the animal and not about profit.
A rescue friend of mine took two sugar gliders from the raid. Both of them had eye infections so bad that the male lost one eye and the female lost both eyes. USGE ignored their injuries and the SPCA vets did not treat them, so she has already spent $200 on the eye surgeries and meds alone, and that is with a kind vet’s discount for rescues. She will spend $100 more for a spay and neuter, then she is adopting the pair out to an approved home for $50.
