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Okay I have decided.........
that I just can't stand working for the corporate machine for one more minute! I am so not well suited for office politics, water cooler chit chat and having a # stamped across my forehead.

I have decided to open a rescue shelter/animal preserve. This is really my true calling. This is where I am at peace and happiness. Tending to animals brings me my greatest joy

So my dear GLP friends......I need some tips, advice, directions.

Have a few ideas of my own. Live about 40 miles from a midwestern city. Very difficult in finding a no kill shelter. So that will be my first...by law. Thou shalt not kill any animals in need. We are going to be the pasture where old horses go...that warm sunshined corner where old brutus can curl up and take a while to rest his bones. We're going to be that attic rafter ol' sally goes to get away from it all.....

Now that's my vision statement.....I need practical help getting started. Have looked into profit vs non profit....not sure yet. Need a location, financing (which I am praying daily for 'specially in this economy) and any help any of you have to offer.

It's time each one of us started living our dreams. I know I for one am tired of wasting my time and effort for $ as a main priority. I want to live my light/life now!
"We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children"--Native-American proverb

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I want to live my light/life now!


Good luck!
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I want to live my light/life now!


Good luck!
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thank you :)

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Re: Okay I have decided.........
while that isn't my calling, I've had similar ideas. Non profit animal shelter that let the dogs roam around more instead of being kenneled up. Of course, the animals would all be for sale like the normal humane society.
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My niece will be a vet in a couple years, I'm sure there are more like her that would help.

Maybe you could help from a school.
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I sometimes find it easier to be around animals than people lately lol....yes I love the idea of "free range"....the cages are awful. I'd love to get a vet on staff so we could expand beyond dog and cats rescues only. I have some fund raising ideas...just really not the time in the economy where people have the money left over to be generous.

A friend of my hubby's purchased a piece of property that the state is now renting from him to NOT cultivate or change....now that's the set-up I wish I could find. The rent from the state pays for his mortgage! He just kind of fell into it so not having any luck finding out how to do that.
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My niece will be a vet in a couple years, I'm sure there are more like her that would help.

Maybe you could help from a school.
 Quoting: freeone

excellant idea!! Like student dr's.....hmmm I like it! Now there are only a few vet schools aren't there? Any near KC?
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Excellent Idea, Good Luck OP!
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My niece will be a vet in a couple years, I'm sure there are more like her that would help.

Maybe you could help from a school.

excellant idea!! Like student dr's.....hmmm I like it! Now there are only a few vet schools aren't there? Any near KC?
 Quoting: Treasures

She is looking north farther,b ut there should be one down there. Whenyou said midwest I thought you meant upper.

Google vet schools?
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Excellent Idea, Good Luck OP!
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thank you~!
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I sometimes find it easier to be around animals than people lately lol....yes I love the idea of "free range"....the cages are awful.
 Quoting: Treasures


True, but you still need to be able to separate animals from each other when needed. There are bullies among animals too.

Good luck with making your dream come true!
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Free range only works in theory. The reality is that many animals that you will receive will not be socialized to other animals.

Horses will fight, kick, and even attempt to kill one another if the herd is unhappy with new member(s). Same thing applies to any species.

You most likely will need licenses, check your local laws. And of course pay fees, plus the property, taxes, blah.

Then there is feed/food plus you will need to hire folk to help you attend. Then you need veterinarian(s) attending or on staff.

Either way you go (profit or nonprofit) you will be relying upon the help of charitable individuals/groups. Keeping critters is expensive, the old adage there ain't no such things as a free puppy plays here.

Unfortunately most of the animals you will get will have most likely been medically neglected. In order to keep groups, herds, packs, bevies, prides, murder, etc. and all of the other names for animal groupings you will have to have all incoming animals shot and checked for things like distemper, lock jaw, Feline Leukemia, and all of the other assorted critter diseases depending on each species you keep.

One animal can infect a whole herd/gaggle/shrewdness(apes)/sleuth, sloth (bears)/clowder (cats)/ mob (deer)/ raft (otter) and the other god only knows how many different groupings of critters there are.

A harras of horses can easily succumb to Vesicular Stomatitis (more horse diseases: [link to www.greenhorn-horse-facts.com]

What I am stressing here is the daunting physical dealing with the animals part of the matter, not even touching on the logistics of keeping animals, feeding them, and collecting them plus putting them up for adoption.

There is a very good reason why there is a 3 to 30 day 'euthanize' protocol for shelters. The sheer number of abandoned, abused, neglected animals is appalling, unbearable, and no facility can keep up especially during seasonal animals like rabbits.

Easter is the very worst - rabbits are bought as pets, the family finally learns that rabbits are not really house breakable, or they buy two rabbits and end up doing rabbit multiplication. Its really, really terribly sad what happens.

I strongly suggest you volunteer to work at your nearest animal shelter. If there are no openings then offer cups of coffee and a patient ear to hear what those who work there have to say about the day to day intake of critters.

They will tell you the facts that older dogs and cats are often passed over when it comes to 'adoption'. Further many will tell you about the horrors they have seen coming in, abused, beaten, neglected animals - some so sick and abused that 'putting them to sleep' is the only available real option for them.

Yes I know you heart bleeds for the critters, and you may actually think you have the stomach to deal with it. I takes a special sort who can keep their perspective when being a one person audience to the cruelties of the world, especially day after day of seeing the same old tiring horrors that people can do.

I did hospice for a decade, I knew what I was getting into seeing human being suffer with terminal no win diseases. Around the 5th year I was drinking rather heavily. by year 7 I was becoming somewhat jaded. By year 11 I walked away, my heart had seen enough.

I would imagine that the same thing can happen to a person dealing with distressed critters.

I'm not trying to kill your dream, I'm trying to get you to weigh in your heart what type of person you are, what type of person you think you will become in 10 years if you see too much horror. Sadly too many in these areas that see day to day horror shows end up being hardhearted (jaded) in order to protect themselves.

As for an option on how you MIGHT be able to swing this. not only take in the old, sick and abandoned critters, but also considering putting aside part of your parcel to horse boarding. 16 horses can generate an income of around $30,000 a year (after the expenses of keeping the horse).

If you have the land, then you may already qualify for a loan (small business loan) on starting up a stabling/ranch. A bank may be more interested in this line of business over a animal shelter.

After you have been in boarding and tending of horses that are owned and being paid for, then you may want to expand.

Mind if you do not have the land already this becomes a lot harder to convince a bank that you are the right person to start such a business.
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I always dreamed of doing this but it just seems to impossible.
Food is the main cost and vet care.
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thank you for your input Wraithwynd...your words ring true on so many levels....I actually am pulling away (a lil hard hearted to protect myself) from people because it is so painful to watch the suffering. Not being able to change or offer much hope. I find it incredibly frustrating and stressful. I find I am somewhat of a sponge...I seem to absorb all that helplessness and pain from the people I work with on a daily basis. The stress is starting to affect my health and I recognize it is time for me to let go and change course.

As for the boarding LOL I have actually thought of that too. I am still in the very beginning stages of this dream. So I am definitely not tied to any vision...just throwing ideas of what I'd like to see happen. I am adaptable to changing needs too though. Thank you again for the guidance. <3
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People were created to be loved while things were created to be used. The reason the world is in chaos is that, things are being loved and people are being used

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Love = "Giving someone the ability to destroy your world, and trusting them not to"
THIS IS A GREAT CLIP.IT FITS MY WORKS.GOD WANTS TO HELP US NOT DESTROY US.THE ANIMALS ARE WAITING FOR YOU .DO IT.THE REST WILL HAPPEN AS YOU GO FORWARD.
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Love = "Giving someone the ability to destroy your world, and trusting them not to"
THIS IS A GREAT CLIP.IT FITS MY WORKS.GOD WANTS TO HELP US NOT DESTROY US.THE ANIMALS ARE WAITING FOR YOU .DO IT.THE REST WILL HAPPEN AS YOU GO FORWARD.
 Quoting: DRHOECKER 788632

thank you~! it does appear to be the path for me. Now I just have to figure out how to get started. lol....

btw...have been having some coinky dinks showing up lately. Thought I'd share one small one

I have been practicing listening to my first impressions with some pretty remarkable results. It's a little hard to block out your normal logical reaction but here's how I have been practicing...I know you all know about facebook well the zoo app on there let's you collect these treasure chests daily for points. When I go to a new page to collect. I force myself to pick the one I was drawn to first (kind of an inner battle between logic and feeling lol) anyway....when I have been trusting my gut reaction I have been getting hits the first time always......kinda freaked me out at first. Now I am applying that same method of discernment to other areas in my life and finding that paths/things that are not suited well to me always have a form of repellant conversely the paths (choices is prolly a better word) there is a distinctive draw.

Anyway thanks for all the well wishes and advise~!
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Good ol' Brutus..
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