Animal welfare is my life but it's also making me lose my mind.

Tag: Working With Animals

  • Haunted

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    This morning I woke up at 02:45, wide awake, having a hard time processing what I had just dreamt. I was in the company of two ex-coworkers from the shelter. Someone had just brought us a large garbage bag full of live cats. We started sorting them out, deciding which ones we could put up…

  • Priorities

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    You scroll through social media and see a post about a dog rescue desperately asking people to adopt. Another is asking people to consider fostering. Yet another is seeking donations to stay afloat. Behind all of these posts are countless dedicated humans who spend hours, days and years of their lives saving as many animals…

  • When Change Changes You.

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    Change: verb change (verb) · changes (third person present) · changed (past tense) · changed (past participle) · changing (present participle) We all experience change. Some change is good. Some change is bad. Some change changes you. When I started working in the animal welfare field, I was a kennel attendant in the shelter building. The old shelter building we still worked in, while…

  • Meatball

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    I almost made it through this summer without a foster kitten. Almost. Today I received a call from a man that saw a truck slow in front of his home and dump out what appeared to be some kind of small animals. The truck took off before he could get a closer look or a…

  • Allow me to introduce myself.

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    A blog about a girl who set out to rescue animals and is slowly loosing her mind because of it.