>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 that
>we cannot properly take care of :-)
>
>- Adrienne

Great story.  Talk about daccessioning to maintain the collection!  Maybe
museums can just declare on the gift agreement that any items unwanted
after two years will be fed to the animals at your sister's petting zoo.
Does she have goats?

Stephen Nowlin