My sister is a curator at a small petting zoo. While discussing similar problems with maintaining collections, dealing with $ issues and problems communicating with the public, she offhandedly related this story: 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