My Nonprofit Reviews
sftaylor
Review for Professional Animal Retirement Center, Albion, IN, USA
At Black Pine it's personal. From the gift shop to the map and the tour, PARC involves you in the lives of the animals. You get to know them, their names, their stories. It makes you want to go back and see how they are doing.
And with Black Pine it's personal. They are trying to work themselves out of a job, advocating for exotics who should stay in the wild, and educating the public to stop the senseless practice of having exotics as pets.
For Black Pine patrons it's personal as well. One thing I really love is that you can trade their "wish list" items for entry into the sanctuary. It gets the public more deeply involved and shows that it's all about the care and welfare of the animals.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
Seeing how they care for the animals and fight to stop the practice of owning exotic animals. Also seeing how the community is involved from Master Gardeners handling the grounds and designing and environmentally friendly septic system to the students from a local University putting up a new enclosure suitable for a chimpanzee.
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
Give them more of everything, more money, more equipment, more land and more staff.
