I've heard it, and seen it, plenty of times. People only want those cute little bunnies, duckies and chickies for a few days, then they dump them with rescues and even just dump them outside. It's the most horrid thing... I wish they would find some NON LIVING icons for their holidays!! At Christmas it's the poor pines... just cut down by the thousands and then dumped out on the curb afterward... so sad.

And BTW, yes you spelled Ostara correctly. It's my second favorite natural holiday... first being Samhain(Halloween to non-pagans).
I, too, find it frustrating that they totally deny having taken all their holidays from pagan celebrations... oh well, they deny almost everything you try to tell them anyway.

Blessed Be! And hoping you all had a Merry Ostara!