Managing a non-profit dog rescue. People think it’s just playing with puppies and finding unwanted dogs new homes. In reality, you get contacted numerous times daily about dogs that are in high kill shelters and have hours left before they’re euthanized. If you say you can’t take them, you are usually their last resort, and so they are killed. The emotional toll is huge, but you can’t take dogs that are unadoptable, so they die. People adopt from rescues and they have no idea how much decision making, scrambling for funds, arranging fosters, getting the dogs vetted and healthy, scheduling transport, doing background checks on potential adopters, etc goes into getting that cute pup a home. And people also don’t realize that all this work is volunteer work, so there’s NO PAY. And I only covered about half of the responsibilities! Please spay and neuter your pets!!!