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Gregory Scheib                            ~     ~
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On Wed, 29 May 1996, Hank Burchard wrote:

> On Tue, 28 May 1996, Stephen Nowlin wrote:
>
> > >Prior to her promotion to curator, the acting curator had engaged in
> > >accepting a donation from a local resident of some bunny rabbits. The deal
> > >fell in my sister's lap. The donor had not been apprised of the petting
> zoo's
> > >standard donation form which says (and I paraphrase from memory): We have
> the
> > >right to sell your donation and/or FEED it to another animal in our
> > >collection. My question is, how can those of us in non-zoos adopt this
> > >strategy effectively to avoid having to take things into our collection tha
t
> > >we cannot properly take care of :-)
> > >
> > >- Adrienne
> >
> > Great story.  Talk about deaccessioning to maintain the collection!
>
>      Point of order here. If you feed a zoo's rabbit to the zoo's fox, can
> that be called deaccessioning? Isn't that just internal downsizing?
>
>      Hank Burchard * <[log in to unmask]> * Washington DC | USA
>
Not from the foxes perspective.