06/14/2019
Before you judge or complain, take a minute and read....
For all my friends who rescue:
Every rescue and rescuer I know is at the same point we are: full, broke and exhausted. Every rescuer is to the breaking point. Compassion fatigue and the consequences are great in rescue. It wears your soul down.
Sadly, we rescuers can't take the ones going down for space today. Every animal control we work with this week has begged and sent pictures. We save them or they die. Many we could not save.
We. Just. Could. Not.
I'm not talking just about rescues I work with, but every rescue I know.
Those faces of the ones we could not save, they haunt our souls. Saying you can't save them all is nothing but a line uttered to try and ease the guilt. There is no easing the guilt.
Our personal lives suffer. Our wallets suffer. Our mental health suffers. If we lash out or do not get back with you in a timely manner, please be understanding. Ask how you can help. Ask how we are doing. Listen to us bitch for five minutes. But don't judge until you are the one deciding who to save and who you can't save.
If you can foster, please do. If you can donate, please do. If you can transport, please do. Hundreds lost their lives this week for nothing more than lack of space.
To everyone else, please spay/neuter, adopt a rescue, don't buy, keep your pets through their entire lives and consider the people who fight for animals and will have to fight for yours if you give them up or allow a litter to be born.
I copied and pasted this from someone else, who copied and pasted from someone else. Please share. They aren't my words but this is MY HEART. 😢