[ThunderGoddess]

I work at a city funded high intake animal shelter, we try and save all the animals that come in but animals are euthanized on a regular basis, daily in the warmer months.

I don't physically euthanize any animals and I don't physically choose the animals that get euthanized but very close friends / co workers of mine do and I can't imagine what they go through.

My job is to find a live exit for them and sometimes I can't. I feel sad and I have bpd so I think I'm making impulsive choices that are not good for me because I am in emotional pain from my past I haven't even dealt with fully, now I have pain from work.

I love what I do saving as many cat lives as possible but sometimes it's so sad and difficult to be involved in this line of work.

Idk why I'm posting this, maybe just for the first time I'm accepting I need to get help for the way I feel related work. I only got to a psychiatrist, I think I need to go back to psychotherapy too.

[Yours_Truly]

I want to thank you so much for doing such emotionally challenging work. I don't know how you do it. I have to change the channel when one of the animal charity commercials come on I'm so upset by them.

The extra support from a therapist right now may be exactly what's needed.
After all, you deal with one of the hard, sad realities of life day after day.

I'm hoping you find peace and comfort in the work you do, and once again, thank you for saving so many animal's lives.

[leejosepho]

Originally Posted by Yours_Truly

I want to thank you so much for doing such emotionally challenging work...

Same from me, and from the bottom of my heart. Find good homes for the ones you can while keeping your focus upon those...and then remember that the euthanizations are not because you have failed or have in any way even fallen short...and again: Thank you so very much.

[Unrigged64072835]

Thank you from me as well. I have two rescue cats. I can't imagine working in a place like that.

[TerryL]

i admire you for doing that work. i couldn't do it. thank you for trying to save them.

[seesaw]

I can't imagine what it must be like to do this work every day. I am a foster parent for the local animal shelter. My current foster I've had for almost 2 months now as I am rehabilitating him. We are lucky that we received grants and funding to make our city shelters no-kill shelters. But I recently saw a nearby county pleading for fosters and adopters to come take animals because they were full and going to have to start euthanizing. So terrible.

Thank you for the work that you do.

Maybe there is some kind of ceremony you and your co-workers could do, like going to a meadow or park or something and releasing balloons or something in honor of the dogs you could not save? Sort of like a funeral but just honoring their lives and giving closure?

Seesaw