Re: OT: My current Guilt

[Nina]

I've thought that way before too.  If I know an innocent creature needs help, and I don't at least try, their little faces haunt me.  For me, it's always better to at least try.  I don't know what the lesson is, sometimes we can learn from our mistakes, and be more prepared the next time.  Other times I think it's just a lesson in how little control we actually have.  Keep caring Cherie, keep trying to help whenever you can.  You are a wonderful example of loving concern to your son.  He's very fortunate to have you for his mother.  God Bless, Nina Cherie A Gabbert wrote: Thank you Nina, Thank all of you guys I really needed to hear all this right now, this really put me in the dumps. I know it is a part of life especially when we do rescue, I just am questioning if I should have rescued. Nina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Cherie, Please don't be so hard on yourself. You did what you thought best, your motives are generous and pure. How could anyone know how long that mouse had? The very fact that you were able to catch him in order to try to help him makes me suspicious about his health. How terrible for you to find that poor little guy dead. I hate to say this, but it's all part of rescue, rescue of any kind. The ones that come to us are usually not healthy to begin with, we can only do what we can do. I'm sorry sweetheart, I know it hurts. It's because we care that it hurts, I guess the two go hand in hand. Much love, Nina Cherie A Gabbert wrote: > Completely off the beaten path, but on Thursday I rescued a mouse from > a window well in my basement, it has been 10 degress and below for 5 > or 6 days now, so I thought I ! would put him in a cage and give him a > blanket and food and let him go when it gets warmer. I kept him in the > garage away from the animals and my son, just in case he had > something, and this morning I found him dead. What if I left him > alone, would he have lived, so now this month I lost a perfectly > healthy one day and gone the next Snowball, and now I think I killed > this mouse.... > Thanks for listening, I have no one else to vent to, since I have to > keep a firm upper lip for my son, who is also upset over this. > Cherie