Glider Rescuers: The "real deal" and "the wannabes"

Warning: This is MY rant and MY PERSONAL opinion (and it is NOT necessarily the opinion(s) of any board, or boards, with which I may be affiliated). Don't read it if you are gonna whine about it. Debate, you ask? Sure... bring it on!

Well, I've just about had it with the drama queens and whiners in the glider community. Our glider community is a small and close-knit one, and we DO look out for one another and all gliders everywhere, but lately, there has been a surge in "glider rescuers." Now, forget for a minute that anyone can call themselves a glider rescuer, but who really knows what they are doing? Too many look at glider rescues as a source of "free money" and rather than actually look out for the benefit of the gliders; instead, will come up with whatever kind of story that sounds good, just to get the gliders for free (or at low cost) and then BREED them and sell the joeys for profit. This is morally and ethically WRONG.

But that is not my point of this entry; rather, I've just about had it with people who THINK they are "rescuers"-- those who jump right into the "glory of the rescue situation at hand" who may THINK they know all about the glider(s) without having even SEEN the gliders in question! Then, what do they do? They do nothing but gripe and complain about how much work it is... how much it costs, and how they have no more room for anymore gliders, and blah blah blah.

Well, DUH! If these characters CAN'T do it (glider rescue) -- no one is FORCING them TO do it... so next time -- they just shouldn't. My momma always taught me, "if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen." These "supposed rescuers" either need to do the job they've set out to do, and "leave the drama at the door" as one of my favorite glider boards says -- or leave the job to those who KNOW what they are doing, and who do it QUIETLY, behind the scenes, TRULY... for "the good of the glider" and NOT for attention, glory-seeking, or supposed "standing" in the eyes of others in the glider community...

To "the wannabes": GET OFF THE WHINING WAGON!!! If you TRULY want to rescue (and have the patience, the financial means, the room, and the heart -- and CAN deal with the heartaches and losses (and, surely, there ARE those) -- then, DO IT, and I will be there to assist in whatever way that I possibly can... and do it with a glad and free heart, and do your best... but leave the drama out of it!

Gliders come first in this community... not the "wannabe rescuers" and the drama they create...

Let's keep RESCUING about THE RESCUES. Support the known and established rescuers, who put their hearts and souls on the spot for ANY glider in need -- anytime, day OR night... no matter what. REAL rescuers put their money (from what they are able to raise from various projects) where their mouths are... and don't fuss, whine, and carry on about it, and turn the whole matter into a major production, worthy of another George Lucas epic movie, a la "Star Wars."

If you truly want to support the rescues, look no further than your favorite glider board, or contact Suggie Rescue Resources...who works in partnership with such great glider boards, such as: United Sugar Glider Network (a rescue, rehabilitation, and education board -- where rescue IS our focus), or Gliders Anonymous, or Animal Craze (this last board is involved with, not only sugar gliders, but other species as well).

Now, I don't want to discourage any new rescuers, for without glider rescuers, so many of our beloved little gliders would be in harm's way... if you need help with a rescue situation, contact one of the glider boards. Don't try to go it alone: this IS hard work, and it can be very expensive... Help is freely given in this community. Just keep everything about, and "for the good of the glider."