Update:
This has got to be the worst experience I've ever had with adopting a rabbit from a shelter .. Ever! I'm sorry to put down a shelter organization because what they are doing is really great in theory. But what a mess this past month has been!
First, I'm told I will have to cover all of Jemma's surgery and health problems, then the foster mom tells me that this shelter's policy is that all health costs be covered by the foster mom of the rabbit and the shelter's contreibution of $100 plus a medical fund which works on a reimbursement only basis and to go ahead and get everything rolling with check-ups and estimated surgery costs from the vet for Jemma so the abscess doesn't get worse. After the high surgery costs come back to them, I'm told that this is too much for anyone to afford and that she will likely have to be put down. So I frantically get in contact with the president to figure out some way to get more money for Jemma's surgery to be covered and told no they can't do that. Two days later, I get a call from the foster Mom telling me that the president has changed her mind and they can contribute $300 paid dirctly to the vet (Good, Great!!) and the foster mom will send a check for $300.
So, last Thursday I get a surgery opening for the following Monday morning. Now it is left up to me to figure out how to arrange for the foster mom's check to arrive in time which is made out to the Vet clinic, I email her about the confirmed surgery date and if we can meet up on Saturday for me to pick up the check. Then we find out about some big problems and repairs that our condo will have to undergo and I get tied up in that mess for 48 hours and unable to call the foster mom to see if she got my email. She ended up not getting the email until into the weekend and had gone ahead and snail mailed the check to me. It's now Saturday and the Vet is closed. What am I suppose to do?!? I call the Vet's and leave a voicemail apologizing that there was some payment mix up and that the surgery date has to be cancelled and rescheduled and to please contact me so I know they got my message and I'm very very sory for this problem. Monday rolls around and I check my voicemail and email only to find angry emails from the president and the foster mom! They're mad at me for not going to the surgery appointment and accusing me of being irresponsible and creating a big problem for the Vet after I contacted them about not being able to make the appointment due to the check snafoo.
WOW!
What kind of nerve is that? I'm going way out of my way playing threeway phone tag for a month just trying to find a way to keep Jemma and going to the different Vets they're telling me to go to, get her the surgery she needs, get copies of the estimates and bills, and finding a way to not have her be put down, putting my reputation on the line with my pesonal Vet to work out a 2-way payment, and they're upset with me?
So I try to contact the president directly again to figure out how she planned to pay the Vet and how to reschedule things so it will work this time.. she doesn't return my calls. I received a call back from the foster mom this evening instead informing me that now the president has decided they cannot contribute the $300 now and I will have to pay this myself and then mail the bills to their medical fund and be reimbursed these costs 3+ months later OR I can return her to her foster mom's and hope the surgery goes well and that her foster mom finds the time to care for her afterwards and that they don't end up putting her down. They really want what is best for Jemma, I keep hearing. RIGHT. How is all of this flip flopping on decisions helping Jemma??
Is it just me or is this an EXTREMELY strange and messed up way to resolve having one of their rabbits properly treated?
So after a MONTH of trying to work this out because I absolutely love Jemma and my partner loves Jemma and we REALLY want to keep her and this huge mess continues and continues and she STILL hasn't been able to get the surgery, I've decided that even though it breaks my heart, I have to return her to her foster mother and have the shelter and foster mother resolve this between them. I cannot be trying to work all this out when they are obviously really flakey!
This is just tragic. Here the shelter has a GREAT home for one of their bunnies and now she will have to go back to them because I'm fed up with being jerked around with yes will pay this, no we won't, yes we will, no we won't. What a MESS. It makes me so angry.
To be honest though, part of me is worried to hand her back over to their care because frankly I feel like she would get much better care and attention in my home and have less stress because she's already very happy here. But enough is enough, I can't pay for her surgery, they agreed to, so they need to get this figured out.
I'm hoping they will in fact work out the surgery and get her taken care of asap and healed up and perhaps then I can try to adopt her again. This just breaks my heart.
I forgot to mention that they also were flip flopping on whether I should go ahead with trying the PenB shots for a while to see if they helped or to go ahead with just the surgery followed by PenB.
Argh.
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