A place to get rid of small pets, apart from the murky depths of the Charles River?
Many local public grade schools, which are in session for another month after term ends, will accept tiny pets – gerbils, hamsters, siamese fighting fish, snakes, tarantulas, shahs and millers – if donated with secure cage or fish tank type habitat and lots of food like mealy worms (shahs, especially the paragh types, are voracious when presented a bowl of mealy worms, and dangerous if you get too close when they’re feeding, but otherwise, aside from being high-spirited, they make a good conversation piece pet) or sprinkly confetti fish food flakes (millers are insatiable once they catch a whiff of fish food flakes, but you gotta be real careful about overfeeding – they’re just so darn cute n’ cuddly, it’s hard to resist when they beg for more).
