Animal Rescue Megathread - Sharing the good rescues and documenting the bad "rescues"

Rommelbutt · Dec 18, 2022

Hello animal lovers and animal rescue fans.

Welcome to this WIP animal rescue megathread. Main point of this thread is collecting good rescue channels in the OP and documenting the fake ones so others won't fall for their shit and maybe they can be even reported and arrested for animal abuse.

Youtube channels linked in the images.


	Animal Aid Unlimited or AAU, founded in 2002, is an Indian animal rescue organization, based in Udaipur city of Rajasthan which rescues and treats animals that are sick, injured, stuck or in need of urgent medical aid and attention.
	The Arizona Game and Fish Department is a state agency of Arizona, headquartered in Phoenix. The agency is tasked with conserving, enhancing, and restoring Arizona's diverse wildlife resources and habitats through protection and management programs.
	The Arizona Tortoise Rescue isn't your typical rescue. Through visiting and working with many other tortoise and reptile rescues we found that they all had one major problem in common, they were overcrowded. This was to no fault of their own but we knew there had to be a better way. A better way to think of the Arizona Tortoise Rescue is a collaboration of community coming together to care for, house, and rehabilitate tortoises in need. We do not have one set location but rather land leases and volunteers that house the tortoises all over the Valley. We are not tied down to one location and have the ability to expand as the tortoise's needs expand.
	Hope for Paws is a 501(c)(3) non-profit animal rescue group based in Los Angeles, California. Founded by Eldad and Audrey Hagar in 2008, Hope for Paws rescues animals facing death or danger through abuse or abandonment. They pay for veterinary costs, working with other animal-welfare organizations to find permanent placements for the animals they rescue.
	Howl Of A Dog is a small nonprofit animal rescue organization located in Romania.
	Hannah Shaw is a kitten rescuer, humane educator, and New York Times bestselling author who has dedicated her life to finding innovative ways to protect animals. Her project, Kitten Lady, strives to create global change in the way we perceive and treat the tiniest and most vulnerable felines.
	We're Korean animal lovers who have been filming critter stories from 2001 until now. That’s where the “K” comes from! Join the klub by subscribing to our channel, and enjoy three new videos posted daily! We are the official, international channel for SBS Animal.
	Ocean Conservation Namibia is a private initative started by Naude and Katja Dreyer in Walvis Bay, Namibia, to rescue seals from plastic rubbish entanglements like fishing line and ghost nets.
	We are Stoyan and Dessy from Bulgaria. We are not organization, neither a shelter, we are just an ordinary couple with a big dream. Everything we provide for the stray cats is coming from our own pockets or with the help of donations from our subscribers. We have 4 cats at home, all rescued from the streets - Sopolcho & Bagheera live with us while Alexa & Rijo live with Dessy's mom, who has been feeding and caring of stray animals for the last 10 years. Bulgaria is a small and poor country with lots of stray cats and not enough kind people to take them in. Our dream is to build a shelter where we could take care of many stray cats with the help of Dessy's mom. If you would like to support us, please subscribe to our channel and share our videos with your friends and family. It would mean a lot to us - Dessy & Stoyan
	Anton, more popularly known as Robin Seplut, is a Russian YouTuber. He is famous for his videos featuring him interacting with the cats of his town. Anton lives in Zheleznogorsk city of Kursk Oblast, Russia.
	Save the Kiwi started out in 1991 as the BNZ Kiwi Recovery programme, a partnership between BNZ, the Department of Conservation, and the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society. In 2002 we became the BNZ Save the Kiwi Trust. In 2012, we became Kiwis for kiwi. And in 2021 we reverted to Save the Kiwi as a literal nod to the daily mahi our teams, projects, and partners put into saving our national icon.
	Takis Shelter is an animal welfare nonprofit that rescues and cares for abandoned dogs and cats on the island of Crete and places them for adoption to loving, forever homes.
	Kevin Rene Richardson, known as "The Lion Whisperer", is a South African YouTube personality, wildlife conservationist and self-taught sanctuary owner who works with African lions, black leopards, spotted hyenas and striped hyenas.
	At the Urban Rescue Ranch Nonprofit we wear a lot of hats! Like most farm sanctuaries and domestic rescues--we take in animals in need and provide them the love and care they deserve as we find a more suitable home for them. However, what makes us unique is that we are also a prospective wildlife rehab and utilize sustainable farming and homesteading practices to educate and inspire the public (particularly our youth!). Our goal is to show you just how easy animal rescue can be and how it can (and SHOULD) go hand in hand with sustainable farming/homesteading practices. Join us as we create and manage the homestead and all of the animals we have saved and continue to save--including Chickens, Ducks, Rabbits, Piglets, Sheep, Goats, Geese, Pigeons, Turtles, and even "exotic" livestock farmed for meat and hunting such as Ratites (Ostrich, Emu, and Rhea), non-native Deer (Fallow, Axis, and Red), and even a Kangaroo!
	Hi, my name is Yassine and I'm from Morocco. I rescue cats and dogs and I currently have a number of cats available for adoption. These cats are ready to travel to Canada, the USA, some of them to Europe as well. If you're interested in adopting one of my cats or if you'd like to help me with donations to support my rescue efforts, please don't hesitate to get in touch. Thank you for supporting my mission to save and care for animals in need and fly them for a better life.
	Vet Ranch Is a YouTube Channel created by Dr. Matt Carriker in 2014. Our goal is to spread awareness of the many homeless animals in need of medical attention. It all started when he received an after hours call to euthanize a stray dog that had been hit by a car. After picking up the dying pup from a dark road and taking it to the clinic, Dr. Matt saw a glimmer of life in her eyes and made the decision to try to save her rather than euthanizing. He pulled out his trusty iphone and began to film the process of bringing the sweet black lab back to life. In 2021, Dr. Matt passed the torch to Dr’s Karri, Judd, Dave & Wendy to continue saving lives of Texas Abandoned Animals as they are “The Voice for the Voiceless.”
Walter Santi	This channel is about the daily lives and adventures of my 3 indoor cats Santi, Indy & Chewie and our 13 outdoor cats and my dog Walter. Our outdoor cats are living in our garden and their names are D'Artagnan, The Rolling Cat (Princess), The Purring Cat, D'Artagnan's Girlfriend, Porthos, Zoom, Junior, The Mom Cat, The Big Head, Ruzgar, Nope, Pamuk and Pamuk Jr. If you are a new visitor to our channel, I suggest that you watch the two playlists called "All The Videos of Our Outdoor Cats (In Order)" and "All The Videos of My Indoor Cats (In Order)" first. Apart from the videos of our cats, from time to time I also upload videos of other animals I come across. So basically, what you'll find here are lots of funny and cute cat videos, an ongoing miniseries about a cat love drama, sometimes rescue stories and always a whole lot of meowing! Enjoy! (Location: Turkey)
	We are an animal charity dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of British wildlife. We are passionate about protecting the future for our native species. We run one of the UK’s busiest wildlife rescue and rehabilitation centres. We deal with over 20,000 wildlife-related incidents, each year. We rely on a small army of over 300 volunteers and run popular outreach and education programmes that help people take actions to make the world a better place for us and our animal neighbours in the natural world. We are one of the longest-established wildlife centres in the UK and have been championing British wildlife for over 40 years.
	To provide medical care and rehabilitation to native and passing migrant wildlife so that they can be released back into the wild. And to educate New Yorkers about the rich diversity of the city’s wildlife and how to help it thrive.

Combined list from the Reddit post and findings by user @thegrayman

Save A Fox Rescue
Posts in this thread about it:
Post 1
Post 2

Redemption Paws
Context: Post

thegrayman · Dec 18, 2022

I hope people who find fake ones share them so I can release my autism on them and do my very best to dox them.

Edit: This one is fake.

Sparkling Yuzu · Dec 18, 2022

People were talking in the animal husbandry thread about making a thread about bad rescues, including the psycho youtube fox rescue lady that keeps dead foxes in her freezer. And the Canadian woman with a for profit rescue that brings unstable dogs from Texas who should have been euthanized for behavioral issues.

Rommelbutt · Dec 18, 2022

Sparkling Yuzu said:
People were talking in the animal husbandry thread about making a thread about bad rescues, including the psycho youtube fox rescue lady that keeps dead foxes in her freezer. And the Canadian woman with a for profit rescue that brings unstable dogs from Texas who should have been euthanized for behavioral issues.

Are you talking about SaveAFox Rescue? Mikayla keeps dead foxes in her freezer??

I'll update the thread so it will be documenting good rescues and also fake rescues.

Sparkling Yuzu · Dec 18, 2022

shortroomba said:
Are you talking about SaveAFox Rescue? Mikayla keeps dead foxes in her freezer??

I'll update the thread so it will be documenting good rescues and also fake rescues.

That's her! There are some awesome posts about it in the "animal breeding horrors" thread.

Rommelbutt · Dec 18, 2022

Sparkling Yuzu said:
That's her! There are some awesome posts about it in the "animal breeding horrors" thread.

I unfollowed her when I heard that she only adopts foxes from breeders, that she doesn't properly care for the foxes, and other shit. I had the feeling something was off but I wanted to believe it's a normal rescue.

Edit: should she be listed as fake rescue? Or do we need a third category with controversial rescue farms?

Dysnomia · Dec 18, 2022

Sparkling Yuzu said:
That's her! There are some awesome posts about it in the "animal breeding horrors" thread.

Sounds like animal hoarder behavior. Why doesn't she get the foxes cremated?

Toolbox · Dec 18, 2022

Sparkling Yuzu said:
That's her! There are some awesome posts about it in the "animal breeding horrors" thread.

That thread got pretty large. Do you know about when those got posted?

Rommelbutt · Dec 18, 2022

Save A Fox

Save A Fox is a wildlife rehabilitation facility based out of Minnesota and we specialize in rescuing foxes

Eeyup, same can be said with several animal rescues. Remember SaveAFox on youtube? they so-call rescue their foxes by buying them off fur farms and then e-beg people for donations to subsidize their new pets.

They're not even a sanctuary, they are registered on paper as a fur farm operation!

They are technically skirting the law by labelling themselves a fur farm then not conducting any farming operations, at least to my limited knowledge of US law.
There was a google drive of receipts documenting SAF's threadworthy drama and texts leaked by a defector. May as well archive it now for safe keeping:
My favorite is the bit about paying their employees in cat food.

Buying foxes from fur farms. Not even buying sickly or cull list animals from the fur farm, but 3 week old kits they can bottle feed in hopes of getting the tamest pet fox. And looking for the prettiest colors of course.

(Mikayla Raines is the protagonist of SaveAFox. Reanna is an employee.)

SAF stealing foxes

Mikayla pestered a fur trapper to sell her wild foxes

Reanna asking a seller to fake USDA documents so she can illegally have a pet possum in MN

Likely about Mikayla or one her cohorts (not all of these screens were posted with context but it must be one of the lot)

Their pet coyote escaped, but intentionally mislabeling him as a coydog on missing posters.

Animals keep escaping, Mikayla is too high to care

A fox named Oliver was filmed escaping his kennel and ran away. SAF buys a replacement lookalike from the fur farm.

General contempt for their animals

SAF Bodycount

Scotch was left in his run with a leash on where he got entangled then baked to death in the sun

Spoiler: dead fox in a freezer

350$ surrender fee and they do not take females.

SAF's finances are a mess

Employee payed with CAT FOOD

She makes a lot on YT

SAF gofundme asking for funds as a rescue in 2016, they filed as a business in late 2017.

This last part had no context but it seems that as of 2020 when this was made, SAF was not listed in Lakeville or Faribault MN as an organization eligible for tax-deductible donations. I don't know if Mikayla has made any claims saying they are.

Ex-employees telling the local news that the IRS needs to audit them

The city of Lakeville has had enough of her bullshit.

Telling her fans to mobilize and GET ON ELLEN to save the rescue

Mikayla spending funds on tattoos (she is mikdolittles_animals)

says she's a surrogate?? I wonder how those surrogate parents would feel knowing she plays with wild animals, who knows what kind of diseases or parasites she gets exposed to. If she's telling the truth, of course.

Peter Ornelas is a fox and skunk breeder Mikayla may have ALLEGEDLY partnered with to buy foxes from, he is charged with child molestation.

This file was simply titled Mikayla Meth Face, I don't know what she uses but clearly when Jax escaped she was on something.

And finally, whetever the hell this is. what is with exotics people and kink?

This would have been up to 2020, if anyone can see what's gone on with them since maybe we could put it towards a separate thread on animal rescues. I'm not in the fox circle, if you think dog circles are insane you haven't even seen fox people. Something about pet foxes attracts an advanced strain of insanity and borderline, moreso than wolfdogs.

No wonder nobody wants to adopt shit, you're playing russian roulette between a decent rescue org or a clownshow being run by a profiteering egomaniac.

(couldn't quote the post by @Spennychu , so I copied it)

Lost Soul said:
Yeah I did not expect to see this today. Had been following them for several years now. Always enjoyed the information they provided on the foxes. Had no idea this was going on in the background. Guess it shouldn't surprise me though if she is flaunting them all over YouTube and other social media. I never agreed with the people they gave the foxes to either. If you look at some of the enclosures the "new families" have for the foxes they "adopt" from her, they are super tiny, no yard, etc.

She constantly pushes for merch sales and donations on her videos too. I almost bought a shirt in support, but super glad I did not.

I wonder if there was any bullshit going on too with Valentine that had Gingival Hyperplasia. I believe they ended up having to put it down (posted video below), but after reading all of these messages, it probably just cost her too much and was too much of an inconvenience. I cant think of another fox she has that has an actual real problem that needed to be "rescued" due to its conditions. Of the videos I have seen, she generally does "rescue" the foxes that are prettier. There were several in her walkthroughs I always wondered why she DIDN'T pick because of this reason.

This is Valentine, who apparently someone begged her to rescue.
Video of his death memorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Daw9MjbB7Zk
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From their YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ42KAIU_Gw
"#thevalentinefox BACKSTORY Valentine is a 5 year old pearl/cross furfarm rescue fox with a genetic condition called Gingival Hyperplasia. Because of this he gets surgery once a year to trim back his gums. Since his condition is not curable at this time. Valentines recap from 10-20-2017 "Valentine was brought into the vet for his very first exam. During this exam he received all vaccines, was neutered, and we had a biopsy done to find out what exactly is wrong with his mouth. The results from his biopsy came back. He has something called Gingival hyperplasia which is just the overgrowth of gums and luckly this is not cancerous. Studies have shown this is often hereditary in farm foxes. This happens when they are bred for the fur quality (many of you may have noticed he has the thickest coat of fur here) and this was the unfortunate side affect. We can help Val! He will need more surgeries to remove the tissues so the teeth can have normal wear and exposure. Removing the extra tissue will also help prevent infections. Because with how they are now he often gets hair stuck in his gums. It may take more than one surgery to help Val. His sponsors are going to do what they can but we would appreciate donations to help Valentine's medical costs."

I did a quick lookback at a couple to find some shots:
From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7q6-MY5xYU

The cage seemed like such a downgrade to me and on top of that I dont think they even have a "yard" for Todd.
I don't even think they had a follow up with him.
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For Kib and Waverly, they never once pulled the camera back to show the rest of the area, the size of the enclosure, or any type of size of yard.
It looks like a glorified ferret cage.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8XywC09J5o
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Bonus comment I found while poking around:
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Bisdejl said:
Yeah, I started getting a bit suspicious of SAF when I noticed the Porsche and Navigator in the following video (should start at 6:36):

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WheJZ7WWsoI:394
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Donovan the Man said:
This is a breed of fox for fur farming.

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Unparty said:
Here we got another dead fox at Save-A-fox and the post is throwing red flags all over the place.

First, the fox was already dead (How? Cause of death? It’s a young fox) and then it was handed to an exotic vet for “safekeeping”. What safekeeping? It’s dead. Mikayla already has a dead fox freezer. I don’t think they need an exotic kiln to cremate it, either.

Then the focus of the post goes to blaming the vet for “losing” the body, when it was likely just mass cremated by mistake. The comments go wild theorizing that they sold the body/pelt since it was such a super rare coat color.

Anyone else knows what might’ve gone on behind the scenes? This is suspicious as hell.

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Lost Soul said:
Doing a little trail work:
I wasn't sure where you had found that information so I started with their Youtube videos and found this.
It is like they just cannot keep foxes.
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But anyway, it led me to Facebook where I found the post, plus images, and of course begging for money under every single post.
I don't know why it surprised me, but every post they make has a donate button. Come on.
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I decided to check out the Vet that was mentioned. Like any other following, I am sure a group of toxic assholes were review bombing, and sure enough.
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It didn't take me long to find a reply with a link to a statement from the staff themselves.
S/A
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Have not heard anything from the back side of this. Will keep an eye out though.

Big Bang said:
I think Kiwifarms alerts are broken because I haven't received any notifications to this thread in months.

This is a blue fox. They're found in the wild. These ranch foxes were bred to genetically have more skin, leading to monstrously large pelts that net way more fur than the standard blue fox. Blue foxes are smaller than standard red foxes. Red foxes are the primary species for all the mutations you see in ranch fox pelts. Blue foxes are the 'arctic' variant. It's similar to loose skin on certain dog breeds.

A relative of mine breeds genetic fuckups like this but in the English Bulldog line. They don't look nearly as dysfunctional but they have this frog waddle. Also, an update to the faux service dog shit: The Department of Justice gave no fucks. Will not let an investigation case open. When it becomes even harder for people to have access to service dogs where one could train a dog themselves because it costs $15,000-$25,000 for a pre-trained dog, these dumb fucks will be why.

Additional information from this quote:

There's been a bullshit push too with "Domesticated Foxes" which I believe was/is a running experiment for the last ~58years which involves a lot of selective breeding.

Why domesticated foxes are genetically fascinating (and terrible pets)

"As director of the newly-minted Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Belyaev was curious as to how dogs first became domesticated. He decided that to fully understand the process, he must attempt to replicate the early days of domestication. He picked foxes for the experiment because of their close family ties with dogs (both are canids)."

"Unfortunately, Belyaev died before seeing the final results. But today, 58 years after the start of the program, there is now a large, sustainable population of domesticated foxes. These animals have no fear of humans, and actively seek out human companionship. The most friendly are known as “elite” foxes.

“By the tenth generation, 18 percent of fox pups were elite; by the 20th, the figure had reached 35 percent,” Lyudmilla Trut, one of the lead researchers at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics, wrote in a paper describing the experiment in 1999. “Today elite foxes make up 70 to 80 percent of our experimentally selected population.”"

What is a Siberian cupcake

"Siberian Cupcakes are Russian Domesticated foxes (RDF) that are imported into the US from the Institute of Cytology and Genetics (ICG) in Novosibirsk, RU as Ambassador animals at the JABCECC. The Siberian Cupcakes were originally obtained by the founders of the JABCECC to better understand the use of the RDF for utility work, in particular search and rescue work. ... "

"After many months and countless hours of effort, two Russian domesticated foxes were on a plane speeding toward America to begin their new lives as Americans. When they were first met at the airport, Amy and Dave were, no doubt, more nervous then them, as they really did not know what to expect. They were certainly not wild foxes, certainly not dogs, not cats, extremely intelligent, friendly, independent, and adorable. But how trainable are they? Well, with proper motivation, they would pick up new behaviors quicker than a dog. They learned to sit, come, down, stay, and give me your paw. Of course, they were a bit more clever than a dog and certainly more independent, so without a treat, they would only perform the command if they "felt like it". "

The silver fox domestication experiment

"Both as a result of his reading of Darwin’s The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication (Darwin 186, and his interaction with domesticated animals at the Ivanova Agricultural Academy and at the Institute for Fur Breeding Animals, Belyaev knew that many domesticated species share a suite of characteristics including floppy ears, short, curly tails, juvenilized facial and body features, reduced stress hormone levels, mottled fur, and relatively long reproductive seasons. Today this suite of traits is known as the domestication syndrome. Belyaev found this perplexing. Our ancestors had domesticated species for a plethora of reasons—including transportation (e.g., horses), food (e.g., cattle) and protection (e.g., dogs)—yet regardless of what they were selected for, domesticated species, over time, begin to display traits in the domestication syndrome. Why? Belyaev hypothesized that the one thing our ancestors always needed in a species they were domesticating was an animal that interacted prosocially with humans. We can’t have our domesticates-to-be trying to bite our heads off. And so he hypothesized that the early stages of all animal domestication events involved choosing the calmest, most prosocial-toward-human animals: I will refer to this trait as tameness, though that term is used in many different ways in the literature. Belyaev further hypothesized that all of the traits in the domestication syndrome were somehow or another, though he didn’t know how or why, genetically linked to genes associated with tameness.

Belyaev set out to test these hypotheses using a species he had worked with extensively at the Institute for Fur Breeding: the silver fox, a variant of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes). Every generation he and his team would test hundreds of foxes, and the top 10% of the tamest would be selected to parent the next generation. They developed a scale for scoring tameness, and how a fox scored on this scale was the sole criteria for selecting foxes to parent the next generation. Belyaev could then test whether, over generations, foxes were getting tamer and tamer, and whether the traits in the domestication syndrome appeared if they selected strictly based on tameness."

People read stuff like this and go "Wow! Just like a dog! I can do that!" when in reality they probably can't even raise and take care of a dog. Then they come home with this wild animal that they probably don't have enough space for, and may even be illegal in their state, to find it digging in their couch, peeing on EVERYTHING, and literally screaming.

This same stuff applies to the dogs too. People see these big breeds or frogs or whatehave you an think "yeah no problem, I will be cool!" then something goes terribly wrong. They are in it for the fame just the same and nothing more.

Couldn't quote @Lost Soul, therefore the copy+paste.

I can copy this into OP if you want, for now I keep it here.

Edit: through tumblr I came across this Google drive but I think all the images are already archived locally here.
Edit 2: I added Save A Fox to the Fake Rescue list and linked the posts.

Sparkling Yuzu · Dec 18, 2022

Great, that's just the comments I was thinking of wrt the fox rescue. The other thing is the Canadian profit driven fake "rescue".

Lost Soul · Dec 18, 2022

Have a bit more since then if it helps this thread. Looking forward to seeing more in here and from other fakes too.

While snooping around I found this really good discussion on Tumblr about SaveAFox:
S/A
Here are some good highlights within it.

Foxes are STILL not a conservation concern (unless we’re talking about culling them like we do in Australia), saveafox wastes a ton of funding on a SINGLE individual and made no real or significant change. This is what most bad “save the ___ blank” groups and ARA groups will do. Pour money into an individual animal with a sob story because it makes people donate MORE money to them for profit.

Point still stands. These groups are a joke. Donate your money actual conservation groups that are lead by scientists.

Those foxes shouldn’t even be kept alive. Especially the one with the gum issue as it severely messes up the animals teeth and jaw and will cause it a lot of pain and discomfort. Euthanasia would be far kinder in the long run.

Also none of the foxes are ‘rescued’ from fur farmers, they’re BOUGHT from them, thus helping to keep the farms in business. There’s also a whole lot of other problematic things going on with that rescue. Really not somewhere anyone should be supporting

Gingival Hyperplasia

Here’s an example of a skull from a fox with gingival hyperplasia (second picture is compared to a healthy ranch fox):

Licensed as Fur Farm

Saveafox is licensed as a fur farm (it’s on their official website), supposedly to get around legal restrictions about having pet foxes. The language around obtaining said license is “A license may be granted only if the commissioner finds the application is made in good faith with intention to actually carry on the business described in the application and the commissioner determines that the facilities are adequate for the business.”

From saveafox’s website: “SAVEAFOX Corporation (publicly known as SaveAFox Rescue) is a 501©(3) nonprofit organization, EIN 82-3454531. We hold a USDA Class B Dealer license, MN DNR Game Farm license, and a MN DNR Captive Wildlife Exhibitor permit.”

From MN statute 97a.105 (emphasis mine): Subdivision 1. License requirements. (a) A person may breed and propagate fur-bearing animals, game birds, bear, or mute swans only on privately owned or leased land and after obtaining a license. Any of the permitted animals on a game farm may be sold to other licensed game farms. “Privately owned or leased land” includes waters that are shallow or marshy, are not actually navigable, and are not of substantial beneficial public use. Before an application for a license is considered, the applicant must enclose the area to sufficiently confine the animals to be raised in a manner approved by the commissioner. A license may be granted only if the commissioner finds the application is made in good faith with intention to actually carry on the business described in the application and the commissioner determines that the facilities are adequate for the business.

Will pull in some more content for the thread later tonight. Will enjoy this.

Cats · Dec 18, 2022

i wish i could save all the animals

NoReturn · Dec 18, 2022

URR has put in so much work, what a good dude.

Rommelbutt · Dec 18, 2022

NoReturn said:
URR has put in so much work, what a good dude.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wkq8Qfm2DDo

In his latest video he calls the Adidas shoes "based Yeezes" that he has on his front porch. I don't know if they're actually Yeezes but that little joke made me grin. His editing style is a bit obnoxious but the animals are cute so he is forgiven.

Unexpected Genitals · Dec 18, 2022

Can we add Vet Ranch to the list of legit rescues? It's a bunch of vets in Texas who take in stray animals that need veterinary care and get them healthy so they can be adopted. I haven't heard any controversy about them, so...hopefully that means they're on the up and up?

Rommelbutt · Dec 19, 2022

Unexpected Genitals said:
Can we add Vet Ranch to the list of legit rescues? It's a bunch of vets in Texas who take in stray animals that need veterinary care and get them healthy so they can be adopted. I haven't heard any controversy about them, so...hopefully that means they're on the up and up?

I added them to the list. They seem legit on first glance.

Slappy McGherkin · Dec 20, 2022

Good rescue:

Make A Difference

Here at the Arizona Tortoise Rescue we care for & rehabilitate tortoises in need of a new home. We provide both rehoming and forever home services nationwide.

arizonatortoiserescue.com

It's a big problem here in AZ, especially with the sulcata tortoises

because they get so big. Lots of native desert tortoises, too. People buy them for their kids when they're tiny and soooo cute, but after a few years the novelty wears off and nobody wants them. And they can live 100 years easy.

AZ Fish and Game regularly holds adoption events for native tortoises, but the poor sulcatas get crammed together in other rescues. The folks in the link provide a much better approach.

My sulcata "Quatters" is about 30 years old. I found her abandoned in a city park over 20 years ago. She's quite a girl now and weighs over 100 lbs. She's quite happy with life in my big backyard.

Sparkletor 2.0 · Dec 20, 2022

TRUE STORY ABOUT WHEN I RESCUED AN ANIMAL

Once when I was working at a pet shop a coworker called my name and yelled help.

I came to see what was going on and she said, "The mouse!"

In the mouse cage, there was half a coconut shell that the mice would sleep in. It was the top half (I think that's the top) with the three divots in it.

Well a mouse chewed through one of the divots and got his head stuck. He was starting to turn red and was probably going to die.

I didn't want to push on his face and crush his skull or pull on his body and rip his head off, so I gently did both until I got him out.

Happy to say I rescued the mouse! He lived a long and full life for a few days until he probably got sold for snake food.

THE END.

Corpun · Dec 20, 2022

@shortroomba

That was an interesting read. Is it a similar story with all these other weird-ass animal people that pop up in my recommendations on Youtube? There's a guy with two alligators along with other shit, someone with a bunch of tortoises that goes by tortoise whisperer or something, and I think some different guy with turtles or some shit.

Rommelbutt · Dec 21, 2022

Slappy McGherkin said:
Good rescue:

Make A Difference

Here at the Arizona Tortoise Rescue we care for & rehabilitate tortoises in need of a new home. We provide both rehoming and forever home services nationwide.

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It's a big problem here in AZ, especially with the sulcata tortoises because they get so big. Lots of native desert tortoises, too. People buy them for their kids when they're tiny and soooo cute, but after a few years the novelty wears off and nobody wants them. And they can live 100 years easy.

AZ Fish and Game regularly holds adoption events for native tortoises, but the poor sulcatas get crammed together in other rescues. The folks in the link provide a much better approach.

My sulcata "Quatters" is about 30 years old. I found her abandoned in a city park over 20 years ago. She's quite a girl now and weighs over 100 lbs. She's quite happy with life in my big backyard.

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I added them to the list. Should I add AZ Game and Fish too? They got some interesting videos on their youtube channel.

It's so retarded when people basically throw away their pets once they get bored by them. They should be fined and jailed imo.

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