05/11/2024
One our fosters wrote this earlier this week. This is triggering but necessary. If we do not speak their names, they will fade from memory and that’s not right.
If it convinces one person to help a rescue, to spay or neuter their animal, to donate anywhere to an animal in need, his memory lives on.
There are so many in need. It’s time for non full time rescue people to step up and help.
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“Yesterday morning I got a slightly panicked phone call about a very young kitten abandoned at a local business.
I ran over as soon as I could but what I found turned out to be much worse than met the eye. This little guy had been tossed out a car window into a ditch. You can’t just do with that an animal and not expect some repercussions. This casual, every day, unpunished cruelty is a far too common where I live and a whole different topic for another day.
In this case… it wound up killing him. Internal damage to a creature who had just learned to open his eyes will do that. I don’t think he was incredibly healthy to start with, so hello cumulative effect.
I’m so grateful for the support folks I have around me when things like this happen. To be blunt, every case is getting harder. Maybe it’s burn out, maybe it’s a combination of all the lives who have passed through my care in the last however many years. Whatever the case, I treasure my people very much. They’re bound to these animals and to each other the same way I am. That’s a bond I can’t put into words, but it runs deep, on a spiritual level.
Parker received his name yesterday. He was warm and got the very best I could give him. He received his wings last night at almost 11pm. This should never have happened. I don’t know where the beauty is in the ashes for this fella, but I believe I’ll see him again.”
