This is just a gentle reminder that AnimalCare does not offer any 24-hour service by phone. If you notice, there is no phone contact anywhere on this blog. We are only contactable by email.
If you require a medical/neutering subsidy, kindly apply through email. We will respond within 24 hours as that is the best we can offer. If you need help urgently, please contact groups that offer such service. I am sorry, but we do not have any resources to offer this and would appreciate it very much if rescuers do not demand for it.
In the first place, we have never claimed to be a rescue group. We are only a charity fund.
If you are unable to write an email for any reason, please get a friend to write it for you as we need the softcopies of the photos and our form is only downloadable from this blog. We have applicants who are not literate in English too, but they get someone else to write the email, send the photos and help them fill up the form. They post the forms and receipts on time and it reaches us within the 2-week deadline. They follow our procedures, all is well and we are thankful for this. They do not insist on calling me.
In these past few weeks, I have been getting phonecalls from people who insist they must speak to me on the phone and nothing else. Sometimes these calls come when I am teaching, attending a meeting, giving a public talk or spending time with family. When I do not answer the phone, it means I am not able to speak at that time. Hence, please do not keep calling endlessly. Send an sms, if you must. I will respond when I read it.
My phone number is for family and friends. I would deeply appreciate it very much if those who have my phone number exercise due courtesy and please ask me before giving it out to others.
All AnimalCare communication is by email. We will respond within 24 hours unless I have no internet access. If you require an immediate response, please contact other groups which have phone contact or the service that you need.
Thank you for your kind consideration and understanding.
When in Rome, (please) do as the Romans do.
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3 responses to “Please exercise due courtesy when giving out handphone numbers”
Forgot to tell you … when you send out items by post to people for purchases made, you may wanna leave your handphone number out. Put your email perhaps at that column, but leave your handphone number ya.
You have every right to ignore the call… i do that too sometimes, just to have my own “me” time.
The post office says it’s a requirement. It’s also useful if the parcel does not get delivered, then the P.O. can contact me. But yes, perhaps email add is much better provided the P.O. bothers to email me. It’s actually not the “buyers” of products who call me. It’s other people – those who demand for rescue service/pick up service despite me telling them we don’t provide such and those who MUST talk on the phone (refuse to sms or write emails). My point is, we have our rules and if one is requesting help, could one please abide by our rules? If I am seeking help elsewhere, I too will abide by their rules. Last night, two phonecalls came when I was giving a public talk, followed by two smses asking me to pick up her call. All she wanted was to ask for a subsidy, at 10.30pm at night? I am baffled. In the first place, who gave her my hp without first asking me?
This poem comes to me, and I think it holds so true…
Obituary: Common Sense
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old
he was since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.
He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as knowing when to come in out of the rain, why the early bird gets the worm, why life isn’t always fair, and how, on occasion, maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don’t spend more than you earn) and reliable parenting strategies (adults, not children are in charge) .
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a six-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job they themselves failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer aspirin, sun lotion or a sticky plaster to a student; but could not inform the parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Common Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband; churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn’t defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar can sue you for assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust; his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason. He is survived by three stepbrothers; I Know my Rights, Someone Else is to Blame, and I’m a Victim.
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.
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