Breaking My Own Rule is Not Good Publishing...

I wrote a blog about an experience I had with a hoarding rescue, and I am amazed and shocked at the response that there has been to this blog.  There are comments of support, and comments against my decision to write about it.  There are immature comments.  There are rude comments.  And there are comments that make a lot of sense on both sides of the topic. 

I would like to acknowledge that I did make a mistake in the publishing of that blog.  It is one thing to make a mistake. Everyone hates to do it, although we all do it.   It is yet another thing to make a mistake in a public setting.  And still another thing to make a mistake in a public setting that negatively affects another person.
The mistake I made and I do regret is mentioning the name of the doctor and her practice in my blog.  I wrote in anger, and I wrote in haste.  I usually abide by a self imposed rule that after writing an emotional blog, I wait to publish it for 24 hours.  Then I read it over again.  By then, the "passion" has been reigned in, and I can address it in a more civil manner.  I neglected to abide by my own rule of publishing.  It was immature and unprofessional of me to address the issue in a public setting rather than discuss it with the other doctor in a private setting, when we had both settled our emotions down and could confront the issue again.  For this indiscretion, I do apologize to that doctor and to her staff.

That being said, I do not regret telling the story.  I still stand behind the story as I wrote it.  I still have all the same unanswered questions in my head that I had when I wrote that blog.  I still believe many of those cats deserved a second chance at life, a chance to recover, a chance to heal.  Running medical tests on the cats prior to making a firm decision towards euthanasia, since there was an option of rescue and medical treatment would have been a nice course to consider. 

One comment on the blog calls me a "storyteller", and it was intended as an insult.  It is not taken as such.  Every animal has a story.  I am priveleged to be one of the storytellers.

This is my personal blog. It is full of my life experiences.  In it, I have and will make mistakes. I am only human. I hope next time, it does not negatively affect anyone other than myself.

My only other regret, is that it has taken me so long to make this apology happen...


"True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive." ~Mignon McLaughlin