Jac Zak Animal Remedies

18/08/2024

Yes rescue dogs need time to adjust ... especially if they have been in a pound or shelter.

Now I have arrived at your home,
everything is strange, and I don't feel good.

Do not feel impatient
If i don't sleep in my newbasket.
Yesterday, I slept on a stone floor.

Do not be terrified if i gobble up my food.
Yesterday. I had to do it to survive.

Do not get angry if I p*e on your floor.
Yesterday, it did not matter.

Do not be sad if I am afraid of your loving hand. Yesterday, I did not have one.

Have patience with me, it's your world
but not yet mine.

If I trust you, I can give you the greatest
Gift Ihave to give..
My Heart ❤️

Please never forget, I was a pound dog
All I need, is a bit of time to adjust.

10/08/2024

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07/08/2024

💜💜

06/08/2024

🤣

27/07/2024

02/07/2024

An article i wrote for an American website i wrote a few years ago, I was honored to have been asked. There are a couple more I also wrote!

Chamomile is an a mandatory part of every herbalist's first aid kit whether they are working with cats, dogs or humans

02/07/2024

🐾 POEM OF A DOG
I'm the one who's always waiting for you.
Your car has a special sound that I have imprinted on my senses, I can recognize it in a thousand.
Your steps have a magic bell.
Your voice is music to my ears.
If I see your joy, it makes me happy!.
Your scent is the best.
Your presence moves my senses.
Your waking up wakes me up
I contemplate you sleeping and for me you are my God, I am happy watching your sleep.
Your look is a ray of light.
Your hands upon me, hold the lightness of peace and the sublime display of infinite love.
When you leave, I feel a huge void in my heart.
I keep waiting for you again and again.
I am the one who will wait for you all your life today, tomorrow and forever:
I am your dog.

25/06/2024

gorgeous

11/05/2024

😂

06/05/2024

Hi everyone!
Just a note.. this is my work page.
If you could not send me animal rescue inboxes as my personal page and our rescue group is always inundated.
I like to keep it separate especially for my sanity.
I get tagged, texted and inboxed all the time particularly with Livestock Guardian Dogs.
Believe me I am usually one of the first to know since most shelters have my phone number!
Thank you for understanding!

24/04/2024

This dog's name was Gunner. My uncle brought him back from WW2. He was raised and slept under my uncle's anti- aircraft gun. The gun crew shared their
rations to feed him. By the time he was 18 months old, my uncle said he would stand up and look at the sky. If he laid back down they knew all was ok. If he growled
and put his hackles up they got at the ready. He knew the sound of the German aircraft and my uncle said he
never got it wrong. He said Gunner was better than any early warning system. I'm probably the only one left in the family that knows that story now, so I thought I'd tell it before it's lost forever, like many stories must be from that time. Thanks for reading it.

- lan Brown

31/03/2024

If you are a rescuer, you will understand this. Please use this post to help others that dont.

Easter (and any holidays) are terrible on rescuers.

If you are a friend of a rescuer, or trying to get a rescuer to contact you over the easter period, this is a time to have some empathy and patience. You may think "hang on, they get holidays and will now have time to do my thing", no, it's the exact opposite.

You have spare time, they have no time. They have plenty of guilt.

Everyone Wants a Piece of Them

Requests for help go through the roof as people want to go on holidays, foster carers need to give animals back, the roads are carnage of car strikes, pounds are full and everyone "suddenly" finds animals with their spare time.

Nearly all the vets are closed. Rescuers have to face surge pricing with emergency vets and very long waiting queues for treatment. In some cases they simply dont have the money and they have to hang on till Tuesday.

Vets are also, broken. Smashed. They are seeing case after case come in and they are having desperate conversations with people who are in incredible grief.

Mixed in with this real life tragedy, are people who simply expect you to solve their problems.

"Hey my dog ate some chocolate I have no money for vet bills, you can help me get a vet cant you" (because you are also a magician, and a bank).

All of a sudden, everyone they know wants them to drop what they are doing to deal with an animal issue. Because of all that spare time.

Nothing is private anymore.

Phone calls from strangers "who were given your number", 1 am "why aren't you awake" ,messages . . old work colleagues people who thought you might "give some advice".

Every possible angle is used to get to you. (including the "hey come to lunch at my place" method which then once you are there, turns into a request to take someone's animals)

People are completely unaware or simply don't care that 10 other people have also asked that same rescuer on the same day, to also take on their animals, drop a family lunch to drive to the vet, make a phone call to hear about a problem or just "take these cats or I will kill them, I am going away tomorrow"

And about that lunch.

Family, partners, friends have long ago lost any patience with your lack of time.

There is pressure to spend time at long social gatherings and NOT rescue animals. To sit through long discussions about nothing over lunch, drive to visit people or go to religious events.

Getting dirty looks checking the phone, or the inevitable backhand comments from a drunk uncle about "you should shoot them".

Divorce rate? Su***de? Alcoholism? You bet.

They also probably just dealt with a death.

You woke up this morning to eggs on toast and TV? They may have spent the night trying to keep an animal alive.

Minutes after it dies, they are expected to smile and be social. Hang out with Karen and go to the shops.

Still seeing the blood or hearing the gasps and cries.

Smelling the cleaning product.

You did remember to clean your hands didnt you.

They get sent photo after photo of animals suffering, in pain or dying. All day. Usually from people who are right there with that animal . . but want someone else to deal with it. Common sense disappears.

Whilst this goes on . . (and this is true) there is a barrage of interested onlookers attacking them online, looking for any angle or a weakness to make them break. For fun.

The key ways you can help a rescuer?

- Give them back their time, they need it.
- Be prepared to do things for yourself.
- Dont give out their number or break the boundaries they have
- Dont "just ask them for advice", every one does that. Use google.
- Have empathy for what they are dealing with and if you can, help them.

You may feel like they are ignoring you, tbey arent.

They have 10 apples, 50 people want 3 apples each, who misses out. What dies. Who gets left behind.

Rescuers dont get paid for this, and if they do get paid it's a pittance and they wear the guilt and criticism, then the rescuer is screamed at to take more animals than they could ever take "because she gets paid"

Rescuers live all day with the incredible pressure to do more and guilt for doing too much, or not enough. They are in a constant downward spiral and possibly only just hanging on, you may be the one that breaks them or helps them out of that spiral.

Your issue is not the only one they are trying to deal with. Take some action and time, help a little, you will be amazed the difference it makes.

Above all, just be good to people. It absolutely matters.