Tag: boundaries
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When “Doing Good” Is Used to Excuse Harm: A Hard Conversation the Rescue Community Needs to Have
Animal rescue is built on compassion. We show up for the voiceless, the discarded, and the vulnerable—often at great personal cost. But somewhere along the way, many organizations have absorbed a dangerous tolerance for a myth: If someone does good work for animals, their bad behavior toward people should be tolerated. This myth is quietly…
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When Fostering Meets Reality: Remembering Our Resident Pets Matter Too
Fostering animals is one of the most rewarding things many of us will ever do. It’s an act of love, of compassion, and of wanting to make the world a little better for the souls who’ve been dealt a difficult hand. Most fosters have big hearts—we say “yes” because we want to help. We say…
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Jada’s Journey
From Rescue to Renewal In August of 2022, my life unexpectedly shifted when a small beige Sphynx cat—then named Dana—appeared on a Sphynx Facebook page I followed. Her photo was hard to look at: painfully thin, crusted with debris, and clearly struggling. For a week I watched hundreds of people comment in heartbreak, begging for…
Fur The Love of Fostering 