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 that > >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