My ramblings

I volunteer in an organisation that is rescuing animals from situation when special technical equipment (alpinist or diving equipment) is needed to reach them. We are rescuing owned and street animals from roof's, treetops, wells, shaft ect. In many cases animals have little to non injurings and are owned ones so we hand them back. But often enough we get street or wild animals that are injured and are in need of veterinary attention and rehabilitation. Mostly we are talking about birds with broken wing or lost leg and cats that are to young to be safely release on location or cats that have ingured leg, spine or jaw or animals that are sick. Those animals stay with us during rehabilitation and then they are release ( bird, feral cats) or in cats cases they're reahomed. But in most cases birds can't never be release due to necessary leg or wing amputation and rehoming of cats is slow and some of them need constant therapy. Some do not survive or are needed to be eutanaside. I'm one of the main person helping those animals. It's means giving them therapy, being with them in ther last moments of life, feeding and watering them, clining their living spaces and many more maniacal jobs. It's means constant work because we lack volunteers. It means constant contact with sick and dying animals and little time to be with healthy ones. It means losing your free time when you have it because your can't find that flip switch and you are constantly on. It means forgeting to self-care. It means your are physical deteriorating and mentally struggling to the point that you have to take one month sabbatical and it doesn't help because they're still call you for help or you call to remind them on something. It means that after five or so years you are on precipice of burnout and you are just waiting to explode or implod. It means that burnout in animal rescue organizations you are in is real and you're are either to call it out laudly to people in it and try together to minimise it or you are going to burnout spectacularly. It means that soon you are going to react.