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Rescue for the rescuer.

4 The Love Of Animals

Your passion to help animals can become all consuming and you can start to feel bitter, frustrated and really angry that no one else seems to care about animals as much or in the way that you care. Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, Emotional Exhaustion these are all familiar topics to those of us who spend our time helping animals.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

As a recent convert to vegetarianism, I found that it reinforced my feeling that the eating of living, thinking, emotional creatures is just plain wrong. We know that animals suffer as well. I look forward to casting my vote for compassion. Government animal rights regulations may help. To the Editor: Nicholas D.