Rescue Is an emotional rollercoaster.... Urgent....as a person involved in any aspect of rescue we hear and see this word frequently. For the bull breeds it is urgent from the second they walk through a shelter door. ONE in SIX HUNDRED walk back out of the door alive. Every dog we have in care IS special....they have beaten those odds. Once in care we have to get them well and healthy from any variety of things either from the neglect of their owners, being a stray, or from any of the many diseases that lurk in the shelter environment. Then we get UTD on vaccines, spayed/neutered, and on HW preventative. There are emotional and behavioral issues that have to be addressed, manners to be taught, trust to be earned, and learning how each one ticks because no two dogs are the same. We put our heart and soul into each amazing dog that comes into our care....and a piece of us goes with them when they leave. I cry....every time.....I cry like a baby. Some times more than others but always because I love them so much. We rarely have any space at all....so as a result we rarely take in owner surrenders, therefore we truly have seen the dogs we get in at a point where all hope is gone and though they want to believe we will be the humans that finally really care for, protect and love them, the ghosts in their past are hard to move past. We spend months with them, we love them with everything we have and we give them 100% of ourselves because they need that and anything less is not an option! Seeing these babies go from having no hope at all and watching them learn to trust and actually start to come alive again and just be a dog is an experience that will break your heart, make you feel happier and angrier than you ever have, and then when that Angel doesnt even resemble the scared and hopeless dog that came to you months or even years before, thats when you help them to trust someone else....there are other Angels that need you....this one is ready to move on to the next chapter of their story....so now you will break your heart again to give them the home and family the deserve. Because even though for them, your home is the best they have ever had and that initial change and fear of the unknown terrifies them and you both, we know that they can have and do deserve so much more from a lifetime home than we as rescuers can give them. Because sadly there is always another dog to save and that time we have to give to the next neglected and abused dog is time taken away from our personal dogs and families. We are held here by something greater than us....its not a hobby, its not a part time calling, its our destiny. Today I went to take Sasha to her new home. The amazing family that adopted Jasper is wanting to add a female to their family. I have pictures and videos of Jazzy and Soshy playing together and sleeping together so this is the perfect match. Except she wasnt having it...she acted like he was the devil.....when we got back in the truck she had to be right there with me....like she couldnt get close enough to me...like her very existence depended on me.... So here I sit having gone through this with our baby girl Redemption, crying like a baby and trying to explain to this Angel that by picking my family as her family, she is selling herself short. Apparently she disagrees.....so here I sit crying because of course she can stay with me forever.....but she could have so much more..... Ill say it again.....the world of rescue is a rollercoaster of emotions and changes your world frequently. When I woke up this morning I had 2 personal dogs....tonight I have three. Welcome home Sasha....we do adore you and you have decided you want us...then of course we want you. Jen
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:12:57 +0000
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