Re-home
One of the services we provide at
NEWHerp is the re-homing of herps. Over the years
we have taken in and re-homed hundreds of herps from
keepers that did not wish to or could no longer keep
them. We have received them with countless reasons
and stories from the death of their keepers to the kids
just lost interest in them and I'm sick of cleaning and
feeding them. We will always assist a keeper with
finding a new suitable home for their herp. Often
this is simply just by giving them advise as to where
they can list their herp pet for re-homing. We do
take in some herps for re-homing when we can but in most
cases if the herp is not in danger or a possible danger
to someone else we will prefer to leave it in it's
current home until we can help the owner place it.
This does two things one is it keeps our cage space
available for the taking in of rescue, rehab, and
potentially dangerous herps. Just as important as
this is the second thing it does, which is to help make
people more responsible for their choice to purchase or
take in an animal in the first place.
Unfortunately too many in our society view pets as
disposable items that they can just dump off on someone
else when they get tired of caring for them. We
try to educate people to put more consideration into
taking on a pet and also to except the responsibility
for their actions if they do decide not to keep the pet
for it's entire lifetime.
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