SterlingRats0408
Senior Member
I'm chatting with some people now. Trying to make an effort to be there at the same time. Power in numbers
FRUITPORT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -
Thousands of rats remain in and around a western Michigan home that housed a now-condemned animal rescue operation.
The Muskegon Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/1G9Uh0H ) Thursday that authorities and other rescue organizations across the state are trying to find ways to remove the rats overrunning the former Critter Cafe Rescue in Fruitport Township.
Animal Control officer Tiffany Peterson says "rats breed about every three weeks" and "there are thousands there and they're still breeding."
Owner Christine Lea Bishop has been barred from the rented home.
Rabbits, ducks and cats also were cared for at the animal rescue northwest of Grand Rapids.
Many of the animals have been sent to other agencies for care.
Bishop has said the rat population started with a cage of pet rats left outside the building in winter.
Information from: The Muskegon Chronicle, http://www.mlive.com/muskegon
If anyone can get there, I'm thinking the exterminator would gladly let you take any he's trapped. I can't take any more here without solid commitments to take them from me, but I'll go over this weekend and help if anyone else wants to go.
If you'd like to help, here's what's needed at this time:
Donations: Any amount, every little bit helps. Money for feed, bedding, medications, vet bills and transportation costs will be needed. There is a donation button on the home page.
Transportation Assistance: Please contact me if you can do any leg of a journey from Avoca, MI to Winner, SD or from Avoca, MI to Hanover, IN. I can get them to the MI/IN line, around Elkhart, IN, if need be. Depending on donations, I will be able to assist with transportation costs.
Transportation Assistance Coordinator: If anyone has the time and inclination, I would really appreciate some help setting up rat trains and coordinating different legs of the journey.
Foster Care: Foster homes will be needed for moms and litters, in order to help socialize pups. Those who wish to foster should keep in mind that they'll be dealing with a semi-feral mom.
Experienced Adopters:Those who are willing to provide a home to any of these little ones with the full understanding of the time and patience it will take to help them adjust and trust - and the possibility that they may not.
Adoption Commitments: If you think you'd like to adopt from the newly arriving litters, contact me, please, and we can start the process.
All Metal Cages: I could use some additional all metal cages, either to borrow or to buy. I have plenty of tub type cages here, but am a little nervous about these boys and girls with plastic, and would like to be able to move them into cages with metal bottoms as our population expands. They would need to have 1/4" bar spacing, so I won't be able to use the ferret type cages.
And as for Christine Bishop she is NOW going to try to catch the remaining rats...if she'd have done that in the first place this wouldn't be happening.
That is awful !!
I wouldn't trust her to catch the remaining rats or to care for them properly
She wasn't capable of doing it the first time, why would anyone think she could do it now.
Hopefully the rescues that have rescued the ratties will be able to finish the job
and hopefully Christine Bishop will be charged, prosecuted, receive the medical care she obviously needs, and never be allowed to have more then a couple of animals, if any, in the future.
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