How many times must we tell Charlottesville?! When you want to rant Craigslist is NOT the place to run. While dealing with my daily Craigslist obsession I found a post by a local SPCA volunteer.
The volunteer wanted to express their disgust with someone that put a dead deer in the SPCA dumpster. Did you know it cost $100.00 to get the trash people to pick up something of that nature? Seems a little ridiculous if you ask me. I would get up in arms about such a fee too. You would think the city would AVOID charging non-profits silly fees.
The volunteer seems to think this act was directed at “High Tech” (as it used to be in their current location). I highly doubt that and I think the reality is that the dumpster was convenient. The volunteer attempts to reason with whomever left the deer, by suggesting a $100.00 donation to the SPCA. I agree, the person never should have left the deer, but Cville was in the wrong to charge for pick-up.
Let me just reiterate - Have a problem? Want to complain? Get with the times and FIND A BLOG.
Check out the clist post after the break
Dead Deer Body in CASPCA Dumpster (Charlottesville)
Reply to: comm-756170117@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-07-15, 2:52PM EDTI am a volunteer who helps the CASPCA shelter animals. I give a lot of time and money because the CASPCA relies on donations to pay for the needs of the homeless shelter animals.
Someone put a dead deer body in our dumpster, which is located in the Pantops Shopping Center. We are now in the space that used to be High Tech, a sporting goods business. I hope whoever did this to us knows that the SPCA had to pay over $100.00 to have the dumpster emptied today. All the other tenants in the shopping center noticed the smell of the deer rotting away and all the flies.
The garbage company will not haul away a dead deer. Therefore, they charged $100.00 extra, which is on top of the fee we pay to haul our garbage each time. This $100.00 could have paid for vaccines, shots, spay, neuter, food for the animals, medicines, and all the other bills that have to be paid to run the shelter and keep the animals in our no-kill shelter.
With the price of gas, it costs even more now to take the dogs to places like PetsMart so they can get adopted.
I am not speaking for the CASPCA, just as a volunteer, but I just want everyone to know that this happened. I hope whoever did this, will know that High Tech is no longer in the Pantops Shopping Center. Their old space is now rented by the CASPCA.
Perhaps if the person who did this realizes that the animals are now without $100.00, maybe they will give it back in the way of a cash donation. Thank you.
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i noticed something like this too the other day. i guess someone was trying to sell a squire guitar for $600. for you non-musician’s, squires are low-end, entry level guitars made by fender that seldom sell for more than $300 new. so some other guy posted a couple of sarcastic ads berating this dude for his overpriced ad. i myself have put a few overpriced items on ebay in the past and received emails from people like “you know you can get one new for that price, right?” yes, i do know that. but i’m pretty sure somebody out there in the interwebs doesn’t. carnies and rubes. carnies and rubes.
B-yo might be uniquely qualified to answer (sometimes you hit the bear; sometimes the bear hits you), but this post made me wonder: does a motorist pay for the disposal of an animal he or she struck on the roadways?
That SPCA site is a very small cat-only facility by Food Lion, not the big shelter by Lowe’s. I can understand the volunteer’s dismay–it’s usually only 1 or 2 nice cat ladies working there at any time and finding a dead deer in the dumpster when they went to throw away used kitty litter was probably upsetting. They also don’t really have extra money to be spending on extra trash removal.
B-yo might be uniquely qualified to answer
In my case, carcass removal was handled diligently and immediately by an overly grateful redneck landscaping crew. Im not quite sure what I would have done with out them.
I just thought I would clear up some things in this thread. That was not a dead deer in the dumpster. It was the carcass of old media that me and Shen threw in there yesterday.
4: Oh, yeah. I forgot that part of the story.
/link for the n00bs and lurkers
Ok, so strictly hypothetically…if your roommate’s cat went missing, would you call the SPCA, or do we have animal control services in town?
@5: Hahaha.
@7: You call the SPCA. It is where Animal Control takes any stray animals they pick up.
The bear story is pretty good, but five has a story about a rhinoceros and a Land Rover.
@7 You can call either, but your best chance is with the SPCA. There are very few animal control officers in town, and you basically have to leave a message and hope they get back to you, whereas someone will answer at the SPCA.
The county/city contracts with our SPCA, which is why it’s so tough for them to strive for no-kill, because they *have* to take animals, and so admirable that they have their percentages of saved animals so high. Other shelters can just close the door when they’re full.
@ 10 But with a wounded black bear on the bypass, I had two animal control officers on the scene within a half hour. But I guess thats different than a lost cat.
Yeah, my bad. I really wasn’t meaning to knock the animal control guys, if it came off that way — just meant that they are way understaffed there, and they’re usually in the trucks and so it’s hard to contact them sometimes…I had a really nice officer come knocking on my door one morning because he knew I had dogs, and he’d found one that he knew belonged to my neighbor, and wanted to see if I would take it for the day so that he didn’t have to cage up the little guy and have him sitting scared at the shelter. It was actually kind of touching.
ANIMAL CANNOT BE CONTROLLED!
I really wasn’t meaning to knock the animal control guys, if it came off that way
OMG How dare you!!1!foamandspittle!
I knocked them in my story. I mean come on, a bear migration route from barracks road to the housing complex across the road? She was tryin to get all Steve Irwin on me. Anyway…
Hypothetically, if one had a family of raccoons living in an unused chimney, a family of groundhogs in one section of one’s basement, a skunk living in another section and a second group of ground hogs living under a huge tree in one’s yard, plus a warren of rabbits under the front steps… could one say, call the animal control for assistance? Im quite at wits end with the menagerie that has chosen Rancho Notso Grande as their wildlife preserve.
@13, ANIMAL!
I think at that point, you call Pixar.
@26 Didn’t they already make that movie? WIth Bruce Willis in it right? Cute, hitman raccoon blowing up terrorists and walking barefoot across glass while robbing museums and singing catchy tunes whilst also single handedly saving the universe? Or am I thinking of something else?
zCute, hitman raccoon blowing up terrorists and walking barefoot across glass while robbing museums and singing catchy tunes whilst also single handedly saving the universe?
Or as I call it, Thursday evening (garbage night).
@14: B-YO! Found some fun advice on the internetz for you:
To get rid of the SKUNK: “You can purchase a small statue of a fox. It is the natural enemy of the skunk. You place it in your yard and move it every month or two. You don’t have to move it far, but make sure the position changes. ”
For the GROUNDHOGS: “Double Bubble gum: Have you seen the bubble gums manufactured under the brand name of Double Bubble? Well, they are not your typical chewing gums. A plant expert one day suggested me to use this particular bubble gum. The truth is that groundhogs love this particular brand of bubble gum very much but the irony is, as soon as they consume this gum, it instantly kills them. Talk about killing in a humane way? Well, then this is the most ‘humane’ way of killing groundhogs and getting rid of them forever.
For the RABBITS: “Surround your [steps] with things that emit odors that the rabbits hate. The most widely used items are garlic and lavender.”
Good luck!
@19: Toss in a crucifix and some holy water, and you can keep the vampires away too.
Groundhogs also hate hair clippings and—I kid you not; you can buy it at a nursery—dried blood.
/or you could make them all jell-o wrestle for ultimate fighting champion mascot of Rancho Notso Grande; losers earn forced labor, building a new porch
@ 20 Nah, if I got rid of all the vampires, there would be no one left in my life. Heh.
@ 19 ’bout this bubblegum… does it kill them INSTANTLY, instantly, or soonish? Because if they had time to crawl back into the shallow recesses of my basement where I could not retrieve their corpus delecti, and then began to puff up in the hot hot heat like giant fur covered stench piroghis, well, that would be a whole ‘nother set o problems, ya know?
/now im off to find me a stone cold fox…
@22: I don’t have any other bubble-gum murder deets for you. Sorry. You could try this though:
“Place pinwheels around your garden. Groundhogs are scared of movement and having a few pinwheels around is likely to scare them away”
@22: You already know my dear friend Jose. I can introduce you to Jack and Jim, and you’ll always have friends around. If you do find a stone cold fox, might I suggest you don’t leave her standing in your front yard?
Your yard is gonna look great filled with fox statues, pinwheels, and gum wrappers.
fox statues, pinwheels, and gum wrappers
Also known as “Belmont Camouflage”.
@14 shoot them. shoot all the critters. You have: raccons, skunks and groundhogs. All three are major disease vectors. Raccoons and skunks are rabies sinkholes. They carry rabies for a looong time without showing symptoms. Not only should you shoot those motherfuckers (an air rifle should work fine) but you should wear gloves to remove the bodies and then wait the possible 7 years for your soil to decontaminate before you plan to hang out in your yard.
Shit, I’ll come shoot those things for you for a six pack.
B-yo: encourage the skunks to breed. Because baby skunks are THE CUTEST THING EVAR.
Egads!
i like the idea of a tequila and gun party at monty-o’s house. everybody wear their belmont camouflage suits and bring a bottle of your finest agave. and a big fucking shotgun.
i like the idea of a tequila and gun party at monty-o’s house
Or as I call it, “monday”.
and a big fucking shotgun.
I don’t have a shotgun, but I can bring this.
go Carl Spackler on em
make cute little critters out of plastic explosives
License to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations. Man, free to kill gophers at will. To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever. They’re like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that’s all she wrote.
belmont blow
@29 I know. It’s awful but necessary. Poison is, in my opinion, far worse for the damage it inflicts on non target animals. And why pay someone else to do what you should be able to do if you are any kind of capable person. And, though I think even adult skunks, grondhogs and raccoons are adorable, and I honk at them when they browse or wander too close to the road to scare them away, you absolutley can not have those things in your domicile. It is completely unsafe, unsanitary and a public health concern.
Also, guns and booze are always good fun.
we had a family of possums in my house in college. they lived in the crawl space, and the dad would come out late at night to forage pizza, natty light, and bonghits for his children. he would also scare away intruders, and he probably fought crime, too. his name was awesome possum.
none of you would have been friends with me in college.
Also, guns and booze are always good fun.,/i>
Disagree.
you should be able to do if you are any kind of capable person.
And that, you see, is where I fail.
@22 “giant fur covered stench piroghis”
Is that a euphemism? Cuz if it isn’t it should be. I’m just saying…
Also makes me wonder what places with cars and engine blocks in the front yard are deterring, the revenue agents?
I don’t know who Im deterring, but i have the requisite old car as well. I think bees live in there.
White trash palace I tells ya! I spackle with mayo.
Dear Mr B.Yo
Oh please don’t kill all your animals. We have been taking the Clark school kids on field trips there for years while you have been at work. We call it Belmont Petting Zoo and we follow up with a walk across ‘The Scary Porch of Doom’ and then take the little treasures down to Blimpies for lunch, petty theft and the hilarious ‘Sabotage the Gas Pump’ game. It’s the second most popular day out, beaten to first place by our annual Fathers Day pilgrimage to Avon St Ext.
Yours,
Enid Scrunt M.Ed
Dear Enid,
If its such a popular outing, then why is my tip jar always full of lint and wayward earwigs? Y’all and the all crotch fruit of your district best kick with a tithing of lunch money or every little furball at Rancho Notso Grande is gonna be blowing bubble gum bubbles in Disney heaven, capiche? This ain’t Keswick baby, this is Belmont… Yo. Folks is tryin to eat.
Yours,
b-monty o.
Mrs Scrunt to you if you don’t mind. Oh and start recycling those fucking empty Tequila bottles before I grass you up to the Green Polizei. Asshole.
Oh and start recycling those fucking empty Tequila bottles before I grass you up to the Green Polizei
Yo, Scrunty, my main man Ethan’s got my back taking care of the Green Polizei, so Im not worried about them. And pardon me for asking for a little cake for a little mammal kibble so you can easily entertain little Bruticus and Madison at my expense when you are too hung over to come up with a relevant lesson plan for the day. I know. That hardly happens at all. I always wondered what happened to that half empty tequila bottle I left on my porch last tuesday. Now, well, I might have an idea.
Yours,
asshole
ok, I just said shoot the critters. Now if we’re talking larger game (40-50 lb biped mammal offspring) you might want to dig a trap, place some stakes in it and possibly place some snares around the old yard as well.
/I kid, I would never hurt the sweet ittle ickle darlings. Children are our future. Unless they homeschool.
my dad used to drown possums in the garbage can but now our puppies rip them to shreds instead.