David Farrier

Please don't use my name.

my mind is blown by your report on best friends I'm a registered vet tech in LA and started working in the animal welfare world in 2017 egg is still dripping down my head

I feel so vindicated by your report, not to paint with a broad brush, but most rescues are started by people with mental health issues.

It sounds such an intense thing to say, but it kind of plays into this world that we talked about where people are intense in this world.

Some are more malignant than others.

There's an overarching culture of martyrdom and drama as if people are addicted to the chemicals released when rescuing animals.

You could call it a superhero complex.

As a member of the medical staff, I am the one who has to actually deal with the dogs and cats that are brought in and often feel like I'm just helping drug addicts get their fix rather than helping animals.

Staff are underpaid and overworked and expected to essentially donate their labor to these organizations which have plenty of money.

Humans are 100% below the animals.

I often joke about opening a rescue for humans who work in animal rescue.

They go on, but I just thought that was a really interesting perspective from a veterinarian.

I thought he summed up the idea of just the chaos that is involved in the world of animal rescue.

And while the result is really great for animals, the chaos in there is this added strange element.

Yeah, it's a different way of thinking about things for sure.

T wrote in, Happy New Year.

I just finished Best Friends and sent it to my daughter that worked there in Utah as a surgical surgeon.

vet tech for five years.

She said that she is well aware of the cult activity and has been to the secluded house that has statues of German shepherds in the front.

That was the lake house, the kind of original house that was built for the cult and ended up being a house for the leaders.