We are an animal rescue for small farm & domestic pets in Pac County WA. Our focus is disabled goats & animals.
02/11/2025
I sit and cry as I read these posts another local rescue put out. The stress we all go thru is unbelievable! The lack of funds means we often go without! Without decent coats, holes in our boots, dirty clothes cause the dryers crash after a year of rescue laundry ( and who can afford a dryer a year) and lord knows we can’t afford new jeans or legging or overalls….. but we will fix & save & continue to help animals were we can! We go without sleep for days at a time or little sleep between medical checks & giving meds. It’s never ending, laundry, bills, vet appts, calls to help, people begging to bring us their healthy pet goats that are too unruly to handle…..
The goat rescue is much easier than the domestic cat & dog rescues these ladies run in Thurston County! But we have so many disabled animals we stay busy & our travel ability is more limited than other rescues that are foster based. All the goats stay here at this time… but this year we plan to hit fosters harder & have more volunteer events to help clean & build stuff!
I was awake nearly all night last night.
The stress of running a rescue and having so many lives depend on you.
Bills pile up and donations are so low. You ponder how you will pay the bills. Food trickles in and it's not enough so I'll be making a food run today, with money we don't have.
I was up last night debating getting a job to pay for this. Except I can't work a regular 9-5 job because I'm on the road so much. I can't imagine getting a job and then calling in sick every day because I have a spay run. OY
We put a call out a few months ago asking for monthly donors. Many of those people have fallen off or cancelled their donations. Which I understand the economy sucks right now. Which is causing people to give up animals or to dump them which is overwhelming rescues that can't afford this.
Rescues don't get funding. I say no all day long. I say no until I'm in tears and then often turn off my phone. I don't want to say no, I have to say no. Adoptions are slow. We are adult heavy again. My adoption coordinators are kicking ass but they could adopt out ten a day and it won't be enough. Our adults sit. On average 8-12 months some sitting two years or longer.
People are working longer hours and think their animals would be better off elsewhere. They won't. Your animal would rather spend two more hours a day on the couch waiting for you than in a kennel at a shelter. Have you sat in a shelter where you are taking your animal? Just sat there among the dogs. The barking and screaming dogs. You think your animal wants that more than your couch? Maybe well your dog is at the shelter this will be the time the state has to move to euthanizing animals. Because there are more animals than kennels. Hallways are full, offices are full.
I always wonder what happens to the animals I say no to. Did they land someplace safe? Are they being passed around until they are dumped and die? The moms and the tiny babies I say no to.
Kitten season will be starting and soon the rescue will go from 200 to 300 animals almost overnight. The medical cats will start. The sick cats coming in. The skinny half dead cats. The people that will reach out about pregnant cats and get pissy when I say we spay and abort. You'all we still have kittens from last year. The adopters just are not there. So yes we spay and abort. Do I like it? Nope, will I do it Yep. For those who want to save the babies I didn't see a foster app from you? I'm not hoarding 92827 pregnant cats just to save babies. Well tending to the 300 animals fosters, coordinators, and being on the road. Well you sit there.
So this is why I was up nearly all night. The stress is a lot. The how do I keep going is a lot. How do I pay the bills this week. Is a lot. Is there a different way to say no?
At what point do we start to come out of this massive crisis?
If everyone of my followers donated just five dollars per month. Just Five the bills would be paid. We could make future plans. Give butter link below. It allows you to sign up for monthly. If we had money incoming I might be able to say yes more. Or more spay runs or more of this or more of that.
https://givebutter.com/3aDS5K
This is Bell. She and her daughter arrived so very sick. Bell was fixed by us, fully vaxxed yet is this sick. She is actually better today and snuck out of the bathroom last night. She and her daughter are in the bathroom so I can run steam a lot. They will recover for about a month before we make future plans for them. But they will move to our cat building soon to finish recovering. This is what your monthly support will allow me to keep doing.
Can't donate five dollars per month, please share our adopt an animal posts. A lot of our animals are adopted because so and so shared the post.
