Being An Animal Rescue Means….

Being A Rescue Means….

• Never having enough money to do the things that need to be done
• Never having enough time to do the things that need to be done
• Never having enough help to do the things that need to be done
• Not eating until all the animals are fed and cared for
• Getting up all hours of the night…
• Never having a day off. Animals don’t care if it’s nights, weekends or holidays. They need care 24/7 365 days a year
• Having to work an outside job despite your rescue being a full time job just to try and make ends meet
• Pinching pennies and doing without so the animals don’t
• Not going out to dinner (that would be 2 or more bags of feed!)
• Not buying new clothes (more bags of feed!)
• Not going to the movies (you see everything as bags of feed)
• Never going on vacation (who’d watch the animals?)
• Having to constantly pester friends, family, co-workers, supporters for help
• Being disappointed because no mater what you do to fundraise only a couple of people participate
• Feeling bad because the people that do help are the ones you know can’t afford it
• Stressing day in day out if you are going to have enough money to pay for feed, medical needs and such
• Taking in yet another animal despite all the above because you know if you don’t the animal could die
• Being ridiculed by friends and family for what you are doing
• Seeing pain and suffering of animals beyond compare on a daily basis
• Fighting to save animals society has tossed aside
• Fighting against all odds because laws do not protect the animals or punish the abusers well enough
• Wanting to shake people and holler, “Wake up! It takes society to make a change. It takes a community to support a rescue! We can not do this by ourselves.”
• Knowing no matter what you do people still see animals as disposable

 

This may seem harsh but it is apparent everyday that people just do not have a clue. It’s time for a wakeup call. We must raise awareness and make the public aware of the plight of rescues and pot bellied pigs to establish laws protecting them and bring them the support they need.

Melody Lesh

Peace At Last Farms Animal Rescue & Rehabilitation, Inc

Dedicated to Lory Yazurlo of Pig Tails Sanctuary and the 400 rescued pet pigs who were murdered senselessly because society failed her and her innocent babies.