Here is a great article on the whole situation for those unfamiliar: https://thereporters.org/...

If you are so inclined to donate in Mikayla’s memory, you can do so here:

Donate: https://www.saveafox.org/donate

Sponsor a Fox: https://www.saveafox.org/fox-sponsor-agreement

Venmo: Venmo.com/saveafox

Mikayla, Ethan, and Sandi all contacted Reddit, requesting that the posts be removed, saying the allegations were damaging the nonprofit’s reputation. They say they received no response.

The Reporters Inc. reached out to Reddit for comment, but also received no response.

Obligatory fuck u/spez.

Cases like this is why I can never bring myself to let assholes be.

If someone says something rude in a game lobby, or lemmy comment...

I will tell them off. That they call me "soft" for caring is the pinnacle of madness. I can take it, the ones I'm worried about are the ones who shouldn't have to.

If I can make even a fraction of those who engage in verbal abuse within range of me reconsider, I might save a life.

That some of the people I engage genuinely don't care, makes them subhuman. Their tragic lack of empathy would be hilarious, if it weren't lethal.

It's not an isolated thing either. I see many rehabs and clinics where people constantly talk crap on the workers, try to get them in trouble or arrested, do things that can get licenses put in jeopardy, act like they know more about animal care and medicine, get mad when clinics are full or when they can't save every animal. It's completely nuts how many hateful people there are to those doing kind things.

Being a wildlife rehabber is a 24/7 job that basically generates no money. There's no public money, everything is donation based, so people trying to damage your reputation can destroy your clinic, and since animals don't use cash, there's nobody to bill for services so all expenses are eaten up. It takes a lot of land if you're dealing with large or multiple species, which we all know isn't cheap. It's a high pressure career in every way possible, with no reward but the work itself.

Suicide rates for veterinarians and animal welfare workers are 2-5x the average due to pressures of the job. Here is a good, short article about mental pressures and care in wildlife rehab and things they have to deal with on a daily basis.

I was gutted when this happened and this brings it all back. I still visit the channel. I still remember when finnegan (I think) stole her phone and just laughed while running away.

Edit: I just want to say that I see the beauty in everything she did but I am angry how people treated her and the reason her death hit different is because only a tiny fraction of people are so giving and the majority are all take. It's so disproportional.

@ickplant This whole thing was just so awful. I still donate to them every month but any SAF content just makes me ugly-cry these days so I'm out of the loop. I hope Ethan and Freya (?) and the foxes are doing well

Thank you for posting this. I had forgotten about it.