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