Beatrix Potter
Mama Doe
Heres what I put....
Not v well written I know but its not my best skill
Hello
As a keen animal lover with 2 rabbits and 2 cats I am shocked at the amount of animals being 'offered' on freecycle lately. Most of the reasons for giving up their pets have seemed rather poor excuses...'I've just got married I'm not allowed to have pets', 'my neighbours have complained I have too many rabbits'or I've just gone back to work I don't have the time anymore'. Whilst I appreciate that some of these people do have real valid reasons for trying to find their pets a good home, I wonder whether freecycle is the right place to do this?
What I find very surprising is how quickly these animals have apparently been 'rehomed' in just a few hours! I notice that two Northamptonshire freecycle groups (Daventry and one in Nptn) state on their sites that they will not post animal offers and are quite rightly redirecting people to the appropriate places to rehome. Unfortunately it seems freecycle itself (overall) do not disallow animal postings and instead offer advice in what you should do if you do choose to allow animal postings. Have a pet moderator. I would be very interested in the sites that do allow pet postings of what their pet moderator actually does. I do hope I don't offend by this comment but do find it remarkable that animals are rehomed so quickly! Plus I do remember a posting last year I believe in which it was discovered that one pet moderator had left and someone else had taken their place who had no experience in that kind of field.
I would appreciate your comments. In the meantime could I please recommend a site to add to your animal rehoming links page? The website is www.rabbitrehome.org.uk and it has a huge database of rabbits requiring homes all over the uk.
Many thanks in advance
Suzanne
And the replies so far....
hi
well i happen to agree with you about the pet posting and the pet mod thing is now over and it happened to be me the story actually was that she was moving house and i was only posting emails on behalf of her and got in trouble for it because she didnt ask first i thought i was helping but in fact got alot of offence from this,from which i wish i never bothered.
so as for pet posting why not just ban it alltogher because if this didnt happen i think freecycle would be a much quieter place as this seems to be the problem people are bringing uo quite often, i did ask about being a moderator but now because of this occurance i dont seem to get any reply from any one so i use freecycle and post things on her and thats all i have to do with it.
thats all i have to say on the matter DONT ALLOW IT FULL STOP.
Hello Suzanne
As the owner of the Daventry freecycle group and as the official pet moderator for the Northampton north and central group site we state quite categorically no pets postings allowed, all pet postings come to me direct to be dealt with on a personal and professional level some of the other groups have joined recentl and asked me to take over the pet postings for them too, as I work closely with several Northamptonshire and surrounding rescues that are prepared to help re-home, foster and network to help transport and re home animals that come through the freecycle networks, the only two groups that have not joined us through the Northamptonshire freecycle network are corby and kettering they feel they can run animal postings through their own system, which is fine by our freecycle rules they have guidelines to follow, the only reason why I have not had a chance to respond to this letter is the fact I am very busy with rescue work and my baby is due this Thursday and I have my own fosters and my own dogs and cats and children to organize.
Regards ems
And the best one of the bunch.....
Hello,
you was stating your opinion to which every one is entitled to, which I personally didn't feel warranted a reply, maybe if you had approached one group instead of spamming all the groups maybe you would of got a reply then.? But I did manage to see that you happened to list your own site, to which basically you are looking for new homes for the rabbit's you have, isn't that the same thing?...Instead of posting an offer of a bunny your saying Wanted a home for a bunny? So I guess its ok for you to do that? but not other groups?
Please also remember that moderator's/owner's of Freecycle do this voluntarily and really do not have time to respond to every person that whine's on about nothing in general. Having said this Northampton Freecycle Group's have now decided not to allow Wanted's or offer's of pets at all...
Stewart
:evil: :evil:
I have calmed down slightly since last night
Not v well written I know but its not my best skill
Hello
As a keen animal lover with 2 rabbits and 2 cats I am shocked at the amount of animals being 'offered' on freecycle lately. Most of the reasons for giving up their pets have seemed rather poor excuses...'I've just got married I'm not allowed to have pets', 'my neighbours have complained I have too many rabbits'or I've just gone back to work I don't have the time anymore'. Whilst I appreciate that some of these people do have real valid reasons for trying to find their pets a good home, I wonder whether freecycle is the right place to do this?
What I find very surprising is how quickly these animals have apparently been 'rehomed' in just a few hours! I notice that two Northamptonshire freecycle groups (Daventry and one in Nptn) state on their sites that they will not post animal offers and are quite rightly redirecting people to the appropriate places to rehome. Unfortunately it seems freecycle itself (overall) do not disallow animal postings and instead offer advice in what you should do if you do choose to allow animal postings. Have a pet moderator. I would be very interested in the sites that do allow pet postings of what their pet moderator actually does. I do hope I don't offend by this comment but do find it remarkable that animals are rehomed so quickly! Plus I do remember a posting last year I believe in which it was discovered that one pet moderator had left and someone else had taken their place who had no experience in that kind of field.
I would appreciate your comments. In the meantime could I please recommend a site to add to your animal rehoming links page? The website is www.rabbitrehome.org.uk and it has a huge database of rabbits requiring homes all over the uk.
Many thanks in advance
Suzanne
And the replies so far....
hi
well i happen to agree with you about the pet posting and the pet mod thing is now over and it happened to be me the story actually was that she was moving house and i was only posting emails on behalf of her and got in trouble for it because she didnt ask first i thought i was helping but in fact got alot of offence from this,from which i wish i never bothered.
so as for pet posting why not just ban it alltogher because if this didnt happen i think freecycle would be a much quieter place as this seems to be the problem people are bringing uo quite often, i did ask about being a moderator but now because of this occurance i dont seem to get any reply from any one so i use freecycle and post things on her and thats all i have to do with it.
thats all i have to say on the matter DONT ALLOW IT FULL STOP.
Hello Suzanne
As the owner of the Daventry freecycle group and as the official pet moderator for the Northampton north and central group site we state quite categorically no pets postings allowed, all pet postings come to me direct to be dealt with on a personal and professional level some of the other groups have joined recentl and asked me to take over the pet postings for them too, as I work closely with several Northamptonshire and surrounding rescues that are prepared to help re-home, foster and network to help transport and re home animals that come through the freecycle networks, the only two groups that have not joined us through the Northamptonshire freecycle network are corby and kettering they feel they can run animal postings through their own system, which is fine by our freecycle rules they have guidelines to follow, the only reason why I have not had a chance to respond to this letter is the fact I am very busy with rescue work and my baby is due this Thursday and I have my own fosters and my own dogs and cats and children to organize.
Regards ems
And the best one of the bunch.....
Hello,
you was stating your opinion to which every one is entitled to, which I personally didn't feel warranted a reply, maybe if you had approached one group instead of spamming all the groups maybe you would of got a reply then.? But I did manage to see that you happened to list your own site, to which basically you are looking for new homes for the rabbit's you have, isn't that the same thing?...Instead of posting an offer of a bunny your saying Wanted a home for a bunny? So I guess its ok for you to do that? but not other groups?
Please also remember that moderator's/owner's of Freecycle do this voluntarily and really do not have time to respond to every person that whine's on about nothing in general. Having said this Northampton Freecycle Group's have now decided not to allow Wanted's or offer's of pets at all...
Stewart
:evil: :evil:
I have calmed down slightly since last night