Thursday, October 12, 2006
Donations re-energize vandalized animal rescue in North Seattle - Seattle Times
Missy Young was on the verge of giving up animal-rescue work after vandals broke into her North Seattle shop, opened cages, stomped small rodents to death and stole some high-priced reptiles.
"Our job is really difficult to do on a day-to-day basis already," Young said. "And when we walked into this massacre, it was like the straw that broke the camel's back. I wanted to give up. I thought, 'this is too much.' "
But after news of the break-in at Animal Talk Rescue got out, the phone started ringing and people began dropping by. It was a trickle at first, but it quickly became an avalanche of assistance and support in the form of money, volunteer work and basic supplies.
One man walked into the shelter and wrote out a check for $5,000, Young said. He didn't wait around to be thanked. Another person drove up from Tacoma with the contents of his children's piggy bank. Others tucked $20 bills into the shop's door jambs. Responding to Young's plea for paper towels and bleach, donors have supplied Animal Talk Rescue with enough to last a year, she said. Young estimates the donations thus far total a few thousand dollars, in addition to the $5,000 check.
So much money has come in that Young will be able to take in about 200 cats from an Everett animal shelter that was planning to put them to death.
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Missy Young was on the verge of giving up animal-rescue work after vandals broke into her North Seattle shop, opened cages, stomped small rodents to death and stole some high-priced reptiles.
"Our job is really difficult to do on a day-to-day basis already," Young said. "And when we walked into this massacre, it was like the straw that broke the camel's back. I wanted to give up. I thought, 'this is too much.' "
But after news of the break-in at Animal Talk Rescue got out, the phone started ringing and people began dropping by. It was a trickle at first, but it quickly became an avalanche of assistance and support in the form of money, volunteer work and basic supplies.
One man walked into the shelter and wrote out a check for $5,000, Young said. He didn't wait around to be thanked. Another person drove up from Tacoma with the contents of his children's piggy bank. Others tucked $20 bills into the shop's door jambs. Responding to Young's plea for paper towels and bleach, donors have supplied Animal Talk Rescue with enough to last a year, she said. Young estimates the donations thus far total a few thousand dollars, in addition to the $5,000 check.
So much money has come in that Young will be able to take in about 200 cats from an Everett animal shelter that was planning to put them to death.
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