01/06/2026
🎉🎊 Happy New Year, Everyone! 🎉🎊
I hope your Holidays were full of Love and Laughter!❤️
It’s been a minute since I’ve posted, so time to catch up!! It’s a long one so I apologize in advance! 🙄
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First of all, Holidays are horrible for me, with tons of people calling and emailing wanting to surrender their pets “before we go on vacation”, “before company comes” or “because we’re getting a NEW puppy”.
I used to feel all feisty and indignant and ask them if they’re fu***ng SERIOUS?? “ Am I being punked??” but 20 years in and it just depresses the hell out of me… so much that I literally shut down.
😢 Compassion Fatigue is real. 😢
No one can do this and stay the bright, trusting, hopeful, “we’re-going-to-make-difference” person they were when you first start rescuing animals. It changes you. You become distrustful, cynical, negative and paranoid. And poor… you become POOR, lol.
For 20 years, I put the animals first. My kids were older, I had a couple spare dollars from my husband’s awesome oilfield job and I had some time to spare. I’d follow my heart spontaneously, taking in animals, trusting that God will make it work. (And unfortunately, I still kinda work that way, lol)
My family got used to coming in second, as I ran off to drive 12 hours to get a dog that was about to die “IF SOMEONE DIDN’T HELP”. When I sat up through nights, nursing puppies and then brought them to school late. Or when I’d put a $6000 surgery or $1200 heartworm treatment on our personal credit cards because I couldn’t say No.
I always tried to be that someone that Helped. I wanted to be part of a Team that could make a Difference.
I helped other rescuers when they got in a bind. I put thousands of miles on my cars transporting dogs and did favors for people who immediately forgot I existed.
I’ve stood up for transparency in rescue, fought for better treatment and better laws for animals, backed the good rescues and tried to w**d out the bad. If I saw a lie, I called it out. If they wanted to act stupid, we’d act stupid, who cared if it resulted in a change for the better.
—Yeah. That only got me the reputation as “difficult, arrogant, a bitch”. And most of that came from other rescuers, 😝, who didn’t like being called out.
There is NO TEAM in Rescue. There are Givers and Takers. The shelters and people who continuously NEED you to take a dog will NEVER take one from you to help YOU, it’s not set up that way. They need YOU to now take on THAT Responsibility so they can pat themselves on the back and never look back. When you stop Taking, they just find someone else.
AND… even if I WAS an “arrogant bitch”, (I’m not offended, 🤣) I’ve always ran a tight rescue ship. 😇
All my dogs were vetted, clean, healthy, happy. I had great applications from great families! My adopters love me! But if someone didn’t get the pup they wanted, they’d trash me or go write a bad review. They never understood that it wasn’t that they weren’t “good enough”, but it just wasn’t the best fit. There were BETTER “fits.” We put the ANIMALS first, and we didn’t adopt out just because you needed a last minute puppy for your 2year old’s birthday.
But eventually, it all starts catching up…
—Some of the dogs we take in just aren’t adoptable… Having behavioral or medical issues, we’re not going to euthanize a pup unless it’s totally necessary. So the Unadoptables just live with us. Incurring expenses.
—We get older… We have more needs within our Families. Our parents, children, grandchildren, need us more or we may have medical issues now that we didn’t have 20 years ago.
—The times and economy have changed… More people are giving up pets than I’ve ever seen before. The shelters now turn away pets (we’re No Kill now) and they’re just being dumped. Adopters are few and far between and donations and volunteers are practically nil.
—I’m not really a People Person or a born Fundraiser. .. I HATE asking anyone for anything, so I struggle on, silently, overwhelmed ,until I break. And then flash out, lol
So… the way it’s looking, 2026 will most likely be our last year in Rescue.
I don’t have the time, money, patience or help to continue doing things the way I did. Things are slipping. Without ready cash, spays and neuters pile up because of day-to-day needs (like food, hw prevention, flea prevention, medications) come first. Crates are broken, rusty, rescue room floors need to be stripped and redone and my fence is hanging by a thread.
And my husband is tired of paying for s**t. Especially just to have it destroyed again.
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The only way for Rescue Revolution to continue on is getting more people/volunteers involved. Period.
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To take over the things I’m not managing well right now… Social Media. Fundraising. Adoption Coordinator/Home checks, Running Adoption Events. Inquiries and/or Responding to ridiculous emails.
❤️ More help, More Fosters, would mean taking in and helping more Animals. Hopefully keeping ResQRev going longer and better. ❤️
We’ve been collecting items for our Annual Garage Sale but we don’t really have enough collected or the help to manage one yet. That’s priority Number 1! It’ll bring in cash to flow down the line.
I know this is a long boring read.
It’s right after Christmas, we’re all broke, struggling through a sluggish economy… but with some fresh faces, fresh input/ideas, and POSITIVE ENERGY, I’m hoping for the strength to continue. 🙏
If you’ve made it through all this, God Bless You! 🐶🐱
You deserve to skip the next few posts because they’re only going to beg for donations and supplies, 😆
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If you’re interested in volunteering, PM Us. We’ll set something up where you meet everyone and see what it’s like. And if you care to be a part of ResQRev ❤️
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