I'm kinda upset about rescue centers.

[Goat_Walker]

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Yeah, I get it . I just wish that we did have our yard fenced in though, so I could help out. If we had a rescue for fowl around here I would be a volunteer as soon as they said I was old enough! I have a few rescued animals from those situations. My oldest drake was shot with a BB gun by teenagers as well as caught in a turtle trap and attacked by turtles. All the webbing on one foot was ripped off the foot and he has a injured leg. Found him to be skin and bones, couldnt even walk. The nursing home which is where he lived didnt even know! He is a fat happy old geezer now, still limps sometimes but you cant say he isnt happy here, lol.

 

[DuckLady]

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+11 million

I have worked with Carolina Waterfowl Rescue and the Duck Rescue Network and the reason we are careful about placement is that we care about the duck or goose first and foremost. We want them to have a better home than they came from.

 

[duckluck]

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These places are just getting nuts with their rules. They need to keep it real or they're going to be stuck with a lot of animals to feed, especially right now when all the shelters are full.

I just gave a cat back that I had adopted from a shelter; he had been given back once before and he always had behavioral issues...the endgame was when he decided to start peeing in my house. I wanted to make him into a barn cat and they wouldn't let me, although he is neutered and I have two barn cats already that are both 9 years old, in perfect health and are kept fed and vaccinated. I didn't have any problem with providing for him but I had a real problem with him deciding to destroy my house. So I took him back and they can figure out what to do with him now, because there simply was no other solution here other than keeping him in a cage. Following rules just because they are rules is not how these shelters are going to get their overpopulation problem under control. Every situation is different and they need to see that. I think there are a lot of people out there that could provide reasonably good homes to these animals, the "perfect" situation is in VERY short supply and we have a lot of imperfect animals out there that need homes. If they are going to avoid the eventual solution of euthanasia, something has to give sometime.

 

[waterfowlrescue]

A couple of thoughts here is that #1 no one is forcing you to get any animal from a rescue. Its a free country, rescues arent monopolizing animals adoptions and forcing harsh rules to punish people. There are lots of places to adopt and many rescues with many different rules.

Rescuers put their blood sweat and tears into the animals become bonded to them. That is why they are picky. If you spent 500 dollars fixing up an injured bird would you want it to go into someone back yard with absolutely no predator protection or pond, so it could be eaten in 5 minutes?

Rescuing an animal means you take it from a bad situation, make it healthy then follow through to make sure it goes to a better places where the same thing wont happen again. If they didnt do that they wouldnt be responsible rescues.

I think people are mistaking the no free ranging a bit as well. Birds that are allowed to free range means on land no cage no pond and no predator protection. I say if someone wants to set out a buffet for wildlife they can certainly have the right to do so but you should ask a hard working rescue who spent their own time and money on a animal to keep feedign yoru raccoons. They dont have to be locked in a cage all day ducks need sun, and grass and bugs to be healthy. Ducks who arent alive cant be healthy though. There is a balance between providing protection and allowing some freedom. Sleeping outside at night with your shotgun to kill every animal in sight doesnt qualify.

 

[duckluck]

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I can fully appreciate that...I used to be a wildlife rehabillitator and worked for a center that took in injured wildlife. I also appreciate that we got a lot of domestic animals dumped on us, including a few ducks, and I know what it means to have 40-50 cats in the place, having a whole lot of them being toms that need castrating and be running on a deficit of funds/supplies because everyone wants the "perfect" situation for them and won't let them go to reasonably fit situations. I see way too many places out there that have rules beyond the scope of reason.

 

[waterfowlrescue]

I understand that some places are too rigid I got turned down for a dog adoption once becuase I was going to make my dog go outside into my fenced yard when i wasnt home. A 200 great pyrenees who was bred to be outside guarding livestock and they wanted him running lose in my house when I wasnt home. Not all rescues are like that though, If they want to be they have the right to be. I am sure that person has the dogs for a long time but its her dime and her time. Most all of them become that way because they get burned over and over. I had some guy come to adopt ducks from us and found he had their pictures on craigs list to sell them already. He couldnt afford adoption fees but had a great loving home. the less people can meet the requirements the more likely they are to be scamming you or have the potential to be a bad home.

 

[nissa_loves_cats]

The people who make the rules at animal 'rescue' facilities are very concerned about pleasing their donors who are often city people with animal-rights beliefs who are deeply suspicious of rural people who do evil things like free-range their poultry, eat meat, and own animals rather than 'adopting' them as substitute children.

Animal 'rescue' people, like the rest of us, are imperfect and have their own points of view; if you can find one you can work with, great. If not, consider buying/trading for what you want. (I know I'd be glad to give away poultry to anyone who'd put in an afternoon helping me build a new pen!)

 

[fancbrd4me02]

Suggestion- For those who want to adopt but can't fence entire yard. I often get free used chain link for free or almost free on Craigslist. Maybe you could start collecting used chain link (From craigslist) until you can build either a perimiter fence or a very large free range pen? Then you could probably adopt a goose.

 

[Penturner]

I guess I tend to forget that not everywhere is like it is here in Reno. I think the duck must be the national bird around here, with geese a very close stand in. We have both roaming freely in every parks, parking lot, near any body of water or even remotely open space throughout the city. Hundreds of them all wild. They are not really wild as they will run up to you as soon as you step out of the car to see if you have anything to give them. In the past few years it has become illegal to feed them. one because it was finally realized that white bread is not a healthy thing for birds to eat. and the practice was blamed for attracting even more. There are streets in town that you actually have to stop and wait for the geese to walk across the road, and they know it and will not get in any sort of hurry for any reason.
We do not have an over abundance of predators due to this either. what we do have are a lot of parks that you cannot walk in because they are a solid carpet of duck poop. I don't think they are harassed all that much either, probably because they can simply fly away. The idea that you could not have ducks or Geese free ranging here would be nothing but a joke.

 

[chickboss]

Might be interesting for someone to start a rescue supplying farm stock. I think an adoption fee slighty higher than the current price of duck at Safeway would discourage whole sale slaughter which would bother me if I were really spending a ton on care. But if they wanted to use them for parenting meat birds (gosh, I hope I'm not in trouble here) that would be their business. Free rangers welcome. Just give them a house for night time...

Sounds like some more relaxed guidelines for adoption could really help out in terms of how damaging a feral population of ducks can be for the native populations. More room in the shelter.