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Victims of abuse🐶🐱love animals.
Not in all cases, but in many! 🐕 Did this happen to you? 🐹 Pets are safe!
🚑PETS TO THE RESCUE! 🙈 🙉 🙊 — YAY!
For survivors of abuse, pets give them a safe friend.
Many people experience abusive situations in their lifetimes: Physical, emotional, verbal, and sexual abuse can occur in many types of interpersonal relationships, and neglect is another common and deeply debilitating form of abuse many children suffer through.
Pets do not abuse. They only love.
The long-term effects of any or all of these harmful situations can haunt survivors throughout their lives. That is why scientists, medical professionals, therapists, and other treatment providers are coming together to seek broad, holistic approaches to recovery from abuse.
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BEVERLY was abused.
I worked with The National Greyhound Foundation for years. The founder was abused as a child. She was fond of humans, but she fought insanely to rescue the greyhounds.
The dogs were kept in cages most of the time and she wanted them to be safe and in loving homes. I believe she…
