05/09/2026
Dont contribute to the problem. Please please get your pets spayed/neutered.
This isn't a job to me. This is the rent I pay to be on this earth. Not only are these animals the victims, but those of us who literally put our entire soul into trying to save them are also victims. I speak for all of us when I say that We are the ones who are left to clean up the mess made by those who won't spay and neuter. We are the ones who time and time again try to educate those who refuse to end this cycle because they aren't the ones who are left with sick and dying cats in their hands feeling completely helpless after we've tried everything to combat what nature already had planned for these innocent cats. With every loss, a piece of us goes with them. We are exhausted, defeated, and angry. People blame the shelters for what they do but I dare anyone who has anything to say about us to spend a few days in our shoes and they will soon realize that THEY are the problem....not us. I invite them to spend the sleepless nights along side me as I desperately try to save the unsalvageable. After 20 years of doing this, it never gets better. It never gets easier, and it never hurts less. She is not a piece of disposable trash. She's a life with a soul.
~Originally published by Samantha Damballah
~edited by Robin Knaier
