Well, no more. Im not complaining but have to admit defeat. My wife and best friends talked some sense into my head with the rescue situation and I said I ran out of space. To be honest, I thought I would just take in the really needy ones and stay quiet. It wont work, hahaha. I secretly made space for emergencies and am ready for them. My body just finally hammered some reality into my head. The work simply became too much. I have a bit of a physical impairment because of a motorcycle accident and I tend to forget it. After this hectic week I was kindly reminded, hahaha. Ironically, it is because of the accident that I can do this. I just cant do more than I do now, it is already a full time job. The past year the rescues doubled in number. My first responsibility lies with the chinchillas already in my care and to take in more would mean I either have to work harder and risk my body packing up or I would have to neglect them. If my body packs up, who will care for them? My wife and sons will but they are not here the whole day. Neglecting them is no option. With all the sick ones at the same time I realized how long I actually spend on just the few. They all need attention and it takes the whole day, every day. I also have long term breeding aspirations regarding health, especially with Standard. Breeding is second to the rescues but the breeding pays for the upkeep of the rescues and I am convinced there is a problem with pure Std and it will get worse. I am breeding to prevent this. There is no shortage of chinchillas, there is a shortage of pure Standards that are strong and healthy. As long as they all get good homes and breed more strong babies that will also get homes, it is fine. If not, I just stop. I already cut down drastically with breeding single mutations. The need is with Std, not mutations. Not all weeks are like this one but the food is hard work and since I only pack on order, some days are very rough. Others are quiet but I dont want to pack in advance because I am paranoid about fresh food. I also cant neglect the people who depend on me for food, there are too many. Time to face reality, hard as it is. I like to help friends with sick chinchillas and nothing will change. I just cant expand any further. It takes 5 hours a day just to feed them, change the water and dust, not even cleaning cages. That takes a few hours a day too. Ill have to see if I can stick to this. In the past I ran out of space a few times and just made a plan. Now its no longer a space problem, it is far more serious. Time will tell. Off to bed early tonight, I must get up very early for food orders and the sick ones. Thanks for reading and sticking around. Ill be writing more about the sick ones in the week. Good night.
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 18:22:40 +0000
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