04/15/2014
Hi friends....kitten season is here. We are all going to experience many highs and lows and be stretched thin to the point of breaking. (I'm already there and breaking)
I know there is going to be a rush to pull these babies from HCAS and many other shelters around the country.
I am begging you to follow thru to the point of adoption!!
Let me explain......
I watch many threads, I see people feverishly share, post, tag and pledge only to have that baby pulled and then all but forgot. Then we are on to the next and this cycle just repeats itself. Rescue, fosters and various volunteers are busting at the seams! Where are YOU now? Do you stay involved and help find homes once they are out of the shelter? Do you continue to donate to the rescue who has this baby until they are adopted?
Do we want to save them all? YES! Can we? NO! They all deserve the right to live but the cold hard reality is until things change this is just simply not possible!
I'm sure I just made a bunch of enemies at this point in my rant! Guess what? I'm not here to make friends, my goal is to save lives!! Who's in?
Yes I am very bitter right now!! I still have babies here from last season! I'm so sick and tired of all the empty promises. Heck I still have fosters from nearly a year ago! I love these babies and adoption is going to rip my heart apart, time creates bonds that are going to be painful to break. I signed up for this and I will bear that pain so these babies can have a fur-ever home and I can once again open my door to do it again! It's what we do!
Why so bitter? Promises have been made and broken. I am ONE person! I can NOT do this alone anymore!!! I desperately need help right now!! I need volunteers. I work a regular job, heck I take on any job I can physically do (even the ones that put me down for days) I'll work 15 hours a day just to make a paycheck. I'm crazy busy and I should be in PT, at the chiropractors office, on a heating pad with the tens unit.....blah blah blah. Do I? NO! Why? Because there is no one else!
"Resting" does not put food in bellies, it doesn't pay for spay, neuter, meds, flea treatments.....the list goes on!
I'm tired! I'm fed up! I understand why people get out of rescue. If any one of us had a solution, well I wouldn't be ranting right now would I?
If your still here I'm impressed! I'm sure many of you know that most rescues work out of their homes and with fosters who house these babies. I fit into the first but have no fosters to help (many reasons for that) anyway it is a little strange to have someone come into my house and help clean, although the one time it happened I actually slept really well that night since my back had a break that day lol.
How can you help? Let me count the ways.....
Donate...that's always a given.
Volunteer- there are many ways.....Come walk the dogs, help me clean and have coffee with me, do home checks, cross post the babies that are ready for adoption, take babies to adoption events, hold off the heard while I take pics of individual babies, organize fundraisers.....there are lots of ways, just ask me.
During this past year I've learned some valuable lessons. Those lessons learned will forever change the way I do many things in my life.
If your still here I'm really impressed! So please, if there is anything you can do, please let me know. Nothing is to small.
