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Date Posted: 10:54:15 11/11/01 Sun
Author: Bev
Subject: Re: 800 and counting...
In reply to: Mark 's message, "Re: 800 and counting..." on 10:29:39 11/11/01 Sun

>Bev, My Wife & daughter both help & care for the
>animals. So I do not do it all alone. My daughter is
>wonderful with the animals and handles all my babies...
>Mark
>
>
>>Oh, yes. I should have realized that, myself, as it's
>>one of the reasons I'm taking care of the horses here
>>by myself! When Jack died, there were 14 ( 4 still at
>>the track that I had to bring home.) I am down to
>>just 4 now, but it took me nearly 5 years to get the
>>others well placed. Lots of times, some kid (17 -
>>usually a girl) would stop in, and ask for a job, or
>>even offer to help just for the experience, but even
>>when that kid is a friend's child - or maybe, more so
>>- the risks and both personal and emotional liability
>>are tremendous. I guess the numbers werre just so
>>staggering to me!!! 800! The efforts you are taking
>>might be underwritten, if you can find someone
>>interested in the subject. Have you checked with a
>>local university? That would possibly also relieve
>>the liability factor, as they have their own insurance
>>for off site studies, I believe. I have a wee cottage
>>on the farm, and rented it to a vert. paleontologist
>>from SUNY Stony Brook. She was forever flying to
>>Madagascar on "digs", and when I asked her about the
>>health risks, etc., she said the underwriting
>>foundation provided the coverage. The GV is little
>>known, and several of its subspecies are endangered.
>>Also, the GV and GS are both considered "cornerstone"
>>members of their habitat. That is, if they go, so do
>>many others, even the trees that depend on the
>>squirrels for their health! It's a possibility. But
>>ya know, sometimes your the best judge of what you can
>>and can't do with or without help, and I'm sure you
>>thought all that out before you began this effort.
>>But I sure hope you have help, one way or another.
>>Have you children that are interested in the wee
>>critters?
>>P.S. the Peta (people eating tasty animals) can be an
>>animal lover's worst nightmare. And an animals worst
>>nightmare, for that matter! Silly B*******!
>>
>>
>>>Bev, the liability alone is one of my main fears of
>>>having people around. Then you also never know when a
>>>visitor might have a disease on their shoes or
>>>clothing. Then you have to take in consideration the
>>>animal rights movement. I had some one slip in and
>>>open one of my porcupine scages two years ago
>>>relelasing over 20 porcupines. I want to do some
>night
>>>time photography and do some serious data collecting
>>>with my flyers. Like which feeds produce the best
>>>litters averages, diet effects on mating, foods eaten
>>>most. There are thousands of questions to be answered
>>>once you figure out what to ask....I would like to
>get
>>>some actual footage of them breeding, maybe a couple
>>>live births, Like I said there are so many directions
>>>I want to go. My pens are going to be colony pens
>with
>>>real trees & natural looking nest boxes.So the
>>>possibilities are endless as to what I can learn.
>>>Mark
>>>
>>>
See! All those nights with bottle duty, and diaper duty, they paid off!!! Glad to hear that your family is involved with your endeavours. (Most of my kin - none of which live with me - think I'm - well, squirrelbait! They're right, of course!)

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