Animal shelters are great organizations. They exist so that unwanted animals--it's very unfortunate that some animals aren't wanted--can be taken care of. You might think of them as orphanages for animals. But to answer your question: don't be angry at the animal shelter for taking care of the bird that your mother ripped away from you. Instead, I suggest that you petition them for Skye back. Now to keep Skye, you might have to persuade your mother somewhat. Try to discover why she got rid of the bird, and find a way to undermine that reason. Try the following argument, for example:

"So if you didn't know that I was a girl when I was born, would you have given me up to an orphanage? It's unafir to get rid of somebody just because you don't know what gender he or she is! Would you do the same horrid act to a hermaphrodite?!?"

As for having a fund-raiser: that's a very good idea. Animal shelters are often faces with under-funding and too many animals to take care of. This results in their sometimes putting some animals to sleep. And I don't mean sleep. I mean death. Sleep is just a euphemism. you may be young, but you need to face the facts: people kill animals, which is just plain mean. But a great way to raise money for the animal shelter is by stealing it from an oprhanage. That way, the nuns might have to put a few orphans to sleep. Yes, Darwinism is a sad thing.

Whether or not I think that you could be a sailor scout is beside the question. The question you must really ask yourself is: "Do I have what it takes to be a sailor scout?" Do you have the determination? Do you have the moral compass to guide you between right and wrong? Do you the spare time on the weekends to fight the Dark Kingdom, the Black Moon, and other organizations of evil? And, most importantly, do you have the money to go to the salon after every battle to repair your nails and hair?

Fighting the forces of evil is both a very time-consuming and very redundant job. You may think that your life is drab and boring, but, trust me, that's a lot better than "Oh, great. We have to save the world. Again." It can get very annoying. Isn't one defeat good enough for the bad guys? Why do they keep coming back? If we kicked their butts the first time, it should be pretty easy to figure out that we'll kick 'em again.