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May. 25th, 2010 11:53 amDear lady,
If you call me at 8 a.m. on a weekday (ie, while I'm at work) about a baby raccoon in your yard and then proceed to tell me that you live two hours away from where I work, you will not drive anywhere to meet up with me, and you are leaving at noon TODAY to go on vacation, don't be surprised when I tell you that I cannot help you. This is not my job - this is volunteer work, and I cannot leave my paying-job for four hours in order to meet up with you so you can get a pat on the back for saving a raccoon.
I told her to call the other raccoon rehabber in metro-Atlanta, but the other rehabber lives near where I work, and will ALSO not travel that far to get a raccoon, so I have no idea what this woman is going to do. Sadly, she'll probably just leave it in her yard to die.
I'm so sick of people expecting me to do all the pick-up for these guys when that's just the beginning of my investment into these animals. Even after I explain that I don't get paid for this and how much each raccoon costs me to raise and release (~$300), the majority of people are still only willing to drive 20 minutes out of their way in order to deliver the raccoons to me and expect to get a huge pat on the back for their "help." No.
No love,
Me
PS. Ha. I just finished writing this and our local Fox news station called me to see if they could come out and film video of my raccoons for a story they're doing on rabies vaccine bait drops in north Georgia. After hearing what the story was about and finding out it's NOT an anti-raccoon story, I said it'd be okay for them to film my raccoons. "Okay, we can be there in an hour, will that work for you?" HA! Um, no lady, I have to work.
If you call me at 8 a.m. on a weekday (ie, while I'm at work) about a baby raccoon in your yard and then proceed to tell me that you live two hours away from where I work, you will not drive anywhere to meet up with me, and you are leaving at noon TODAY to go on vacation, don't be surprised when I tell you that I cannot help you. This is not my job - this is volunteer work, and I cannot leave my paying-job for four hours in order to meet up with you so you can get a pat on the back for saving a raccoon.
I told her to call the other raccoon rehabber in metro-Atlanta, but the other rehabber lives near where I work, and will ALSO not travel that far to get a raccoon, so I have no idea what this woman is going to do. Sadly, she'll probably just leave it in her yard to die.
I'm so sick of people expecting me to do all the pick-up for these guys when that's just the beginning of my investment into these animals. Even after I explain that I don't get paid for this and how much each raccoon costs me to raise and release (~$300), the majority of people are still only willing to drive 20 minutes out of their way in order to deliver the raccoons to me and expect to get a huge pat on the back for their "help." No.
No love,
Me
PS. Ha. I just finished writing this and our local Fox news station called me to see if they could come out and film video of my raccoons for a story they're doing on rabies vaccine bait drops in north Georgia. After hearing what the story was about and finding out it's NOT an anti-raccoon story, I said it'd be okay for them to film my raccoons. "Okay, we can be there in an hour, will that work for you?" HA! Um, no lady, I have to work.
