Couple buys food to feed animals at a rescue, only to be met with a crowd of kids demanding they share the food, couple responds: ‘I told the kids to stop’

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    A woman feeding a fluffy brown alpaca in a field.
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    AITA For not sharing with kids at an animal rescue?

    My husband and I made an appointment to an animal rescue farm with lots of llamas, horses, cows, goats, etc. There also happened to be a kids bday party there at the same
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    time. Before we went, I asked the volunteers if I could bring food to feed the animals and they said yes and provided a list. I spent $70 on produce (washed and cut up) for feeding.
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    The kids automatically swarm us asking if they can also get some to feed the animals. There's ~14 kids and some parents. Some kids have stopped asking and started
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    going into my bags and taking fruit. I told the kids to stop and had to pull some hands out of my feeding bucket. The parents who were there were upset, saying that the stuff I
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    brought was relatively cheap and I should share "because it's X kids birthday". They even asked the volunteers to distribute the food I brought.
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    The bday kid started a tantrum and was inconsolable unless he got his own bucket of food to feed the animals. I gave his parents some apples, but refused anymore. AITA for not sharing?
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    Edit for context: I'm not sure what age the kids were..but they were about 3 ft tall. The rescue does allow for some private events! They have
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    some animals that do really well being pet. It's also massive covering over an acre. We did not bring all the food out at once, only two buckets (one for me and my husband) and
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    one bag of extras. The rest was in the car. And on Google they said it was a good place for dates and to ask what foods to bring as it changes based on which animals/donations they have.
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    SleepyDeluxe You dealt with it wrong. Next time you tell them it's $20 per food item, they either would have backed off or paid you $20 for an apple. ΝΤΑ
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    A person feeding a cow from a bowl.
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    thenotoriousaep NTA - it's not your job to entertain someone else's children or help out when they have no planning skills.
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    Safe Extension_4044 ΝΤΑ Their lack of planning does not constitute you to rearrange your day and finance their child's birthday
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    HauntedPickleJar NTA, Those kids have some terrible manners, I wonder where they learned them...
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    Inside_Durian_2465 Of course NTA. That's some crazy entitlement on their part.
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    rmrico NTA. This is something that the parents could and should have arranged in their own
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