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****"Grateful, how about we just don't attach ourselves to sufferingand decide to not suffer ? That's what I attain to do, but we can't avoid it all, we wouldnt be human, but we can lighten it. ******
Well, I try to broadcast on my facebook to help find homes for horses at the lots/auctions, whatever you call it, discarded beautiful animals dumped at a kill buyers feed lot b/c owner either doesnt' want them or can't afford them
So myself and some friends we get their pics, post on facebook, appealing to the public that your $10 and my $10 may bail this horse out and save its life....sometimes we win.....a lot of times we lose
Today I find out that TWO slaughter plants are opening in USA, so now the friggin kill buyers don't have to pay to ship to Mexico or CA, they can ship within the USA
I fought these plants....telephone calls to reps,, emailing, petitions up the ying yang and what happens??? we not only have the NM one opening, but Iowa is going to open one as well....Someone tried to set fire to the NM one, did some damage, but to no avail...they got gov't approval to go
My horse loving mates and I fought and fought this....spend a lot of time, effort, and LOST
Another big blow to me b/c I passionately love horses and dogs too....I also fight to help homeless Labs and Pitties....Can't do em all, but I try
Seems like I am crapping against the tide....so I am gonna take Bettina's advice and detach from the sorrow I feel, the grief for these animals who will be murdered ,now in our country....
I am taking the high road....Putting limits on how much I do from now on...It is too taxing...I am too poor, and I am too tired of the endless struggle to make a living for me and trying to help animals...
I will do what I can, but I am going to pace myself....
Detach from the suffering, or doing what I can to lighten it....I am one personn, limited, getting older and if I cannot detach, I will do what I can to lighten it....This beautiful paint mare, young...vibrant...only 5yo....I do the Q/Horses, Paints and Appaloosa's....and if a thoroughbred looks adoptable, not real hyper I will try and help the TB's.....well this paint mare, I loved her coloring...she was young and sooo potentially a nice pet....I and my friends are trying to scrape up donations and we lost her.....she shipped out to slaughter a few days ago...I just found out.....
A BAD day!!! Gandhi said that a country is only as good as how it treats its animals....
yea, If I can't detach from the suffering, I am gonna take the high road and find a way to lighten it.....
Tomorrow work and then pool b/c it closes 11 August....Screw this sadness....Gonna walk away from it in my head...then try, after I rest, to help the ones still in the feed lots.....but LIMITED!!!!!! Its just too much for me...
Going to bed...gonna do what I can to get my mind off this mare and get some sleep....Shes gone.....I can't help her but maybe I can help another adoptable pet......
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Live and let live and do it with peace and goodwill to all!!!!
Neshema, I can get swallowed up in the sadness, too. I applaud your efforts on behalf of the animals and sometimes we do have to back off for a bit and get our grounding. When the light gets brighter, the dark gets darker....that helps me when I begin to see only dark. Somewhere there is a much brighter light and we can be that light...quiet, fervent prayer is a powerful force. Take good care of yourself.
''Saving one animal won't change the world, but it will change the world for that one animal."
I often have to remind myself of this quote when I see all of the animals needing homes. I find myself not even reading the posts/ads on fb and in the newspaper because I have no room to take anymore in and no money now to help financially. I have forwarded the posts on in fb but then I see they get no responses and I find it harder to get the animal out of my mind. I guess I'm saying it's why I hesitate to get too involved in animal rescue. I would get overwhelmed by the need and losing sight of the ones that I am helping. Still trying to figure out a way to help but keep myself from feeling like you are describing. I admire the people like you that do what you are doing and think it's only natural to need to step back sometimes.
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"Just being there for someone can sometimes bring hope when all seems hopeless." - Dave G. Llewellyn
