There is a VERY interesting article here about a study at the University of Georgia which showed a higher rate of secondary PTSD in social workers than in the general population. Is anybody still reading this community?

I want to post something really eloquent about how pissed off I am, but that's just it:
I'm too pissed off.

Tiger, tiger, burning bright ( Read more... )

this is what most of my days consist of. unconditional love for the animals i work with, death of my friends who are deemed unfit for human 'consumption'/ adoption, deluding myself from the harshest truths of my daily work reality just so i can get up the following morning & do it all over again, and lots & lots of poop which i scoop & monitor for ( Read more... )

Last night I couldn't sleep. I kept thinking about the looks that Rollo, my foster dog, was giving me while the sedative was kicking in for his euthanasia. It was like he was blaming me for this, that I had been at fault for his death. I wish I could have told him how hard I tried to keep this from happening.

I got into work on Monday and found a cardboard box with a urine-soaked pillow stuffed into it sitting on the grooming room floor. I assumed we had something dumped on the property. There was no sign of anything "stray" in the room so I figured it was probably a dead something that had been taken to the freezer already. Shortly after I threw the ( Read more... )