Tag: cats
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I Could Never Foster… I’d Keep Them All.

A sample size of one perspective into foster “failures,” capacity limits, and the complicated animals who sometimes need to stay. If I had a dollar for every time someone said that to me, I could probably fund my own micro-rescue. “I could never foster. I’d get too attached.”“I’d keep them all.”“I don’t know how you…
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When Passion Turns Inward: Confronting Toxicity Within the Animal Rescue World
This message is intended for the people inside rescue—the ones who live this work daily, who understand its weight, and who know how painful it is when harm comes not from the outside world, but from within our own community. It isn’t easy to talk about, but it’s necessary. Yes, Toxicity Exists Inside Rescue Not…
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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…