Letters to the Editor
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I worked there
I worked for one of these organizations. I understand, having worked there, that advocacy on behalf of animals is serious and depressing work. It also can create some of the self righteous, narrow, near fanatical thinking Heather describes. To be fair there were also people who were great, amazingly dedicated and somehow normal despite it all.
At my organization several of my co-workers actually went to a long standing foster family to remove a cat. Went to their house, uninvited, unannounced, for reasons that no one beyond their, exclusive little clique would ever understand. Obviously the family, who had a long history of fostering animals- a family any shelter or organization would LOVE to have- was deeply offended and terminated their relationship with us.
Time and time again I saw the employees make very severe judgments on people. And yet they, usually a bunch of alcoholic twenty somethings, were the standard of measurement. Insane.