Depression and Animal Rescue
March 23, 2014 Leave a comment
Depression is common among animal rescuers, foster parents, shelter workers and volunteers. Grace, the heroine of The Patron Saint of Dogs, may be fictional, but the suffering she feels is real. Bless all of the unsung animal rescue heroes doing these heartbreaking jobs♥
For today’s Emerald City Pet Rescue blog I thought I would discuss something I know all of you animal rescuers and even animal adopters can relate to, and that is depression and animal rescue. It could even be depression when we find out one of our fur kids are sick or ill, pets lost, or pet death etc.
No one ever said animal rescue would be easy. Sometimes it can just be one thing that gets you into ‘stinking thinking’ – wanting to quit, wanting to give up, wanting your normal life back.
Contemplate that for a second in the ‘big picture’. You signed up for this. Yes, we all are free to make our own decisions and possibly ‘walk away’. Sometimes the photos and stories of the animal abuse and neglect and the ones we couldn’t save can just be too much on certain days.
If you were to…
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