10/10/2025
💚🐾 World Mental Health Day – A Moment for Our Rescue Warriors 🐾💚
Today, as we recognize World Mental Health Day, we want to take a moment to honor the people who make rescue possible — the fosters, volunteers, coordinators, and supporters who pour their hearts into saving lives every single day.
Because while rescue is full of love, hope, and second chances… it’s also hard. Really hard. 💔
Behind every happy adoption photo is a group of volunteers running on empty — juggling full-time jobs, families, children, and their own pets — yet still answering messages late into the night, driving across counties to pick up strays, organizing vet visits, and managing the never-ending stream of dogs who need help.
We do it because we care. Because these dogs deserve it. Because someone has to show up.
But it comes at a cost.
The exhaustion. The heartbreak. The tears we shed when no one’s looking.
The sleepless nights worrying about dogs still waiting for fosters.
The emotional toll of watching the ones we couldn’t save slip through our fingers.
And sometimes, it’s made even harder by the unkindness we face.
The criticism, the impatience, the harsh words from people who don’t see the hundreds of things we’re doing behind the scenes.
We’re human — doing our very best, out of love, for free — and sometimes, the world forgets that. 💔
So today, we see you.
The volunteer who skips lunch to answer messages.
The foster who falls in love over and over again, only to say goodbye.
The rescue leader who carries the weight of every dog who still needs help.
You are heroes — quiet, unseen, and irreplaceable. 🫶
This World Mental Health Day, please remember:
💚 You matter.
💚 You are enough.
💚 You are making a difference, even when it feels like the world doesn’t notice.
To every single one of you who continues to show up with compassion, kindness, and heart — thank you.
You are the soul of rescue. 🐾
