01/31/2023
“Share more success” is the best advice I have gotten from a friend on how to deal with ridicule from bystanders doing nothing to change the truth behind why rehabilitation and rescue is a needed resource in Delaware. 501c3 is EXACTLY what is stands for NON PROFIT. This is not a paid job, you actually pay to be employed here. We are paid in gratitude, love and respect from a voiceless animal we put the effort in to save. We work tirelessly, relentlessly, and overtime trying to do the absolute IMPOSSIBLE. And even when they give up, we don’t…? Why…? Because if we did, we wouldn’t forgive ourselves.. so while your at home behind your phone laying with your children or cooking dinner for your husband spewing rumors, hate, or gossip about the funding, efforts, and mistruths of the rescue world we are outside beating our heads against the barn because this one didn’t make it, or it is time for euthanasia because your last ditch effort wasn’t enough… or maybe that home wasn’t the right choice for that animal…. Then we come in, sit with ourselves for a moment, check our phone and see negativity, drama, hate, ridicule on our platform to share awareness. Do you envy us? You think this is free money, or an easy ride? Do it…. Be responsible for the lives of the unwanted, beat down the doors of the humans responsible for the abuse, miss time with your family, friends and loved ones, meds are still needed on Christmas, you know…. NO vacation, these lives depend on you, sleep? Fu***ng forget it…. You save this horses life, or you gonna be late on the electric bill??? 501c3 animal rescue appreciates the publics donations but no one in their right mind goes into this expecting they won’t self fund. I work 3 jobs…… businesses i run… I can’t stand the logistics of this entity…. I hate the truth behind WHY we even have to exist… and most of the time, the ones spewing hate are the reason we are here. I WISH, I could spend more time updating and sharing success… there is so much joy in success… but if you know me, time is absolutely of the essence. I am needed somewhere at all times… so those precious moments I spend with the members of FTLOL I don’t pull out my phone. I do this alone, a lot of it alone. Any rescue that doesn’t spend so much time promoting and sharing success spends time being present, too busy to even p*e during the day, is depressed about a life unable to be saved…. BUT… it doesn’t make our success in saving lives any less… actually maybe more. I wish I had more time to be outside playing with my crew, but It’s more important the calves get meds, horses get new beds, hooves are done… worms are gone, anemic goats are warm and their owners hopeful for recovery. Not to mention for work, I am on the phone, answering questions, scheduling livestock maintenance, talking someone through birthing goats… before you say a word about my ethics, work, honesty or passion… show up. Come see what my day to day consist of and see if you feel the same… see if you could float. Then once your beaten down, tired, done your best and it WAS enough let someone tell you it wasn’t. Then, maybe you’ll understand my disconnect from social. My disconnect from uneducated agricultural frauds… BUT, you can find me in my local school spreading knowledge and awareness, local vendor events recruiting volunteers and new livestock workers and farriers… taking care of my clients loyally and giving their animals the care I give my own. So with my rant coming to an end, if you aren’t in it… support it. If your dancing the blurred lines of livestock law I hope your days are numbered. And as for me, I’ll keep doing what I do with or without the support from uneducated, lawless, envious, wanna-be, hateful bystanders. For all my rescues out there doing the RIGHT things, who really share the PASSION… I SEE YOU! The ones who matter, your herd, your family, the unwanted and unloved… THEY see you. And just keep going, it’s a cold ass world… advice of the day…. If you have time to ridicule someone doing more than you, you have too much time… do more. ♥️🐮💋
