Quote Originally Posted by Lori P View Post
I went thru a period for a couple of years where I was VERY down on people... you just see so many horrible things when you do rescue... but then it finally occurred to me that there are just as many wonderful people out there, probably even more wonderful people than cruel people. And my poor attitude toward and negative treatment of people wasn't helping anything; the people coming to me to adopt and volunteer weren't the bad guys. So I slowly learned how to deal with the bad guys and vent my anger and pain in ways that did not include hating all humans. It was a process, lol. And truly, one of the things my rescue is known for is our positive attitude and the fact that we don't make every human out to be a villian. Only the ones who deserve it... lol!!

Regarding our local reptile rescue, the one I just contacted about the garters, one thing that they always put on their ads that rubs me the wrong way is, they inlcude a line to the effect of "We will pick who we want to adopt to, you are not doing us a favor by trying to adopt". I would think that if I told people to basically bugger off, I don't need any favors, I'd never get an animal adopted... and then how could I help the next one?!
I am glad you are smart and mature, and figured this out! As a breeder of show cats, I sometimes run up against people who think all of us are evil. They have met the bad breeders, the puppy and kitten mill owners, and the breeders who are only in it for money, and have never met my kind... I want to tell them that I wear two hats... I breed pedigreed kittens and sell them, showing their parents or siblings, and I also RESCUE. But few of them will allow me to even draw the breath necessary to explain that to them. I also cannot get so far as to tell them that every PENNY I make on the sales of show kittens goes to the rescue.

Oh well! Glad you are a more logically thinking person!