see below Gregory Scheib ~ ~ The George Washington University (<O> <O>) [log in to unmask] ( ^ ) / | \ (_____) ___ 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.