One year later.

Major major trigger warning - Continue at your own risk.

Jenni D here,

Soooo you want to start a husky rescue? It isn’t rainbows and giggles. And YOU are not perfect. You WILL make mistakes. Big ones, mistakes you won’t know how to fix, mistakes that will shape how you rescue going forward.

The question is will you learn from them?

Your mistake will be trusting someone until you figure out that they are a monster in disguise.

Your mistake will be trusting your process and letting your guard down when things are going right.

This is rescue. Things may go right for a minute, but in the blink of an eye, you can wake up and find yourself the reason that the animals you are trying to save might need saving from you.

The question is, did you learn from it? Did you change it and make it better?

The mistakes will shape you. They have to shape you. If they don’t, then you will likely liquify into a former version of yourself, with no way of going back. Your soul has already changed and it’s too late. You might as well keep moving forward.

The choice isn't yours, really. You must admit your mistakes, learn from them and then get off your ass and do something about it. BUT, If you don’t, please remember that the choice wasn't theirs either and the choice you make now determines what happens to them next.

Every mistake has a purpose, and one of its purposes is to help you find meaning, but it’s more to force you to make true change. Finding meaning in your purpose is yours, a private thing, but taking action is the meaning, that's true change, and that’s for the world to see.

Why? Because the world needs change and we can’t change what we don’t know needs to change.

So we raise awareness and we tell the truth so others don’t make the same mistakes that we do.

So embrace the mistakes, own them and then get off your ass and change them. Change the whole world.

It’s up to us. We are their voice.

It was one year ago today that Ruby found herself being rescued again by AZ authorities and in the care of the AZ Humane Society after I handed her over to a monster that would brutally torture her so badly that she chewed her own tail off.

The shelter euthanized her that day, and I didn’t even know that she needed me. I was just going through my days grateful I had found a solution for her when, in fact, she was spending her days in a dark, locked bathroom, in a plastic swimming pool, lying in her own mess, and LITERALLY chewing her tail off from the stress.

I’ll forever be haunted by the day that I handed my girl over to a monster disguised as an angel and I’ll never ever forget hearing how she chewed her tail off because of it.

I died inside that day and I threw myself into the hell out that I dropped her into.

But she was there and she forgave me. She showed me how to forgive myself and then she showed me what I needed to do.

Each husky pictured here is a husky I couldn’t save. Each husky was a husky that I pulled out of a hell pit and then dropped back down into the fire while trying to lift him up. Each husky was a lesson that rescue forced me to learn. Each one died a horrible death because of my mistakes in my process, and each one will be a constant reminder to learn from what I did wrong and rescue right.

You want to start a husky rescue? You will make mistakes. Be ready to own them. Be ready for them to beat you within an inch of your sanity. Be ready for them to shape and guide you into the rescuer you will become but above all, be ready to put one foot in front of the other and don’t freaking stop until they ALL have homes.

Rescue on.

Art by Cameo Anderson

Rip Ruby Roo, Firefly, Kyle, Echo and Whisky.

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