I got an Internship at a Refuge! (HUGE DUW)

Kelly you guys rock! Thanks for taking the time to help another ball-python.netter :carrot:

only 2 days left on my internship! :(

if i was you i would take all the stuff that you gave back. since the guy seems very rude and doesnt appreciate your help.

So what had happened?

update? i read all this.. and no finally??

I feel the same way.. But if the intership is over, i do hope your still checking on the animals if you can.. I am glad to see some one was trying to give the nonnoise making animals a voice.

So what happened did you ever get pics of the snakes in the new rack. Or what these people went out of there way to help out build the rack bring it down. Now no one even knows if the rack was even used. Any proof that it was use at the refuge and not sold or taken home by one of the workers.

ill tell you what from what ive read here you guys are great for trying to help out but i dont think the owner will ever change anything i personally would call and report this!

I started to read this thread and offered help through a PM before i got to page 5, so i was all for helping the animals. Know that I got to the end of the thread I feel bad for the animals because they do not have the help from this college student who gave them the best he could to improve their lives. i just hope the animals are in good hands, and I cant wait to hear from "Notanotherhonda".

I would still like to help, because me and my brother's frat can make a real difference in that refuge by helping out and donating whatever we can.

oh man guys, im so sorry i havent checked up in a while. i graduated FSU and the internship was over. they offered me a full time job...for $7/hr, and thats realistically not feasible. I moved back to jacksonville and work as an environmental scientist which has NOTHING to do with animals. im waiting until something opens up at a refuge/zoo here in town.

now about the refuge


i have been going back to tallahassee about every 3 weeks since i graduated august 8th. i go to the refuge every time im in town. the first few weeks were great. I showed up unannounced and everything was clean. They hired a student there that seems to know his stuff. all the snakes were somewhat healthy. lizards didnt look starved, and the cages were pretty clean. I left that week thinking that i might have made a change in their work ethics and motivated them to make it a better place for the animals......

I went back 2 weeks ago and it was a wreck. The girl who i put in charge of feeding the lizards told me "itde beena while" since they had been fed. The snake cages were covered in feces (the newsp[aper dates were the same as when i had visited last, which was 4 weeks ago, due my car breaking down and not being able to visit.) the director told me that some of the snakes had "died unexpectedly" , so he didnt want me to change the cages, thinking ide transfer whatever it is he thought they had. I changed them wheh he left anyways, because they realistically wouldnt have been changed for another month. I find out the student had been bit bad by our 5 ft burmese python about a month ago, which leads me to believe that he is scared to handle snakes now.

I hate this job that i am in now, and when i go to work at the zoo or refuge that im applying for now, i am going to need the directors recommendation, and this guy isnt the nicest in the world. Now that the internship is over and i have graduated, i ask you guys...what should i do?

tommy