Believe me when i say the hatred is real. The only reason i removed our reviews page was because of the sheer lies and misinformation that came from people who had literally no idea of how or why dogs were coming into our care.

I can argue all day long but it’s time consuming and pointless, you may as well bang your head against a brick wall.

It’s a good thing i have elephant skin! In the short time since we started the charity I’ve had death threats, seriously, you may think that’s an over exaggeration, but it’s not. Having to deal with complete strangers who obviously have a scew loose somewhere is not fun at the end of the day.
Thankfully there’s a delete/block option for the ones that slip through the net while you’re not watching!

And yes, we are referred to as angels by some (we’re not), and in the next few minutes we’re deemed to be dog thieves and told we should be careful as ‘they are coming for us’, even though I’m not sure who ‘they’ are exactly.

Some may ask why we should bother considering we are unpaid volunteers? We say we do it because we are passionate and payment isn’t the same as passion.

We take a few dogs at a time, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have our own dogs and lives outside of this page. It just means we can only take those we have the space for and the finances to treat.

Elephant skin or not, nobody wants to be bombarded with negativity from strangers, it’s not as if we don’t hear enough of it in regards to our dogs in care.

Have a great remainder of your day everyone ♥️

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If you choose to rescue animals, I am going to give you some sound advice – Grow thick skin and don’t care what people think of you. Compassion fatigue is real, but nothing is worth your life. No pet. No rescue. No person’s opinion. Nothing.

In rescue, that person that tells you what an angel you are and how wonderful you are every time you pick up a stray pet thrown at their door will also be the first person who tells people how your organization is worthless when you don’t have space to pick up the 30th pet thrown off on their property. It’s ok.

In rescue, the adopter that leaves you the five star review about how wonderful everyone has been will change that review quick when they return the pet even though you have spent hours trying to keep it in their home. One star reviews are ok.

In rescue, your friend will be your friend until you deny their application for a pet because they are a great friend but a terrible pet owner. That’s ok too.

In rescue, you will answer 143 calls in a day (yesterday to be exact). But if you miss 6 calls in a row while you are in the shower, you will be the one who “never answers their phone”. It’s ok.

In rescue, other rescuers and random trolls will judge everything you do but never have time to pitch in a hand to help when they see something needing more attention. They will, however, have lots of time to talk about how they’d do it better while they harass and judge you. It will be ok.

In rescue, you will have to involve animal control and the police department sometimes. The people who you take pets from will hate you – and I mean REALLY hate you. Trust me, it’s ok.

In rescue, pets will be put down and pets will die at the hands of abusers. We can’t save them all – and that’s ok. We save the ones that we can and pray for peace for the ones we can’t.