Love Animals? Maybe You Could Become a Pet Chaplain
- Posted by: Todd
- Posted on: Mon, June 19, 2006
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Lort Smith chief executive Ric Holland expects to make an appointment, which he believes will be a world first, by the end of this month.
The chaplain will be a minister who will be responsible for pastoral care for pet owners and the hospital’s staff of more than 100.
“I believe we as an animal hospital need to provide more counselling and support for people who are anxious and distressed,” Mr Holland said yesterday.
“If someone loses a pet it can have the same sort of emotional impact as losing a family member.
“Helping people to come to terms with their loss, to open up and hopefully to move on, is a role best done by a chaplain.”
Mr Holland, himself a Uniting Church minister, says that a third of all telephone calls to Lort Smith are emotional rather than veterinary.
He said he was concerned for Lort Smith staff and volunteers, who were often traumatised by the rapid turnover of animals with serious illnesses and injuries.
The hospital has to euthanise about 300 diseased, injured and unwanted animals every month.
“It’s distressing for our people and traumatic for pet owners, so we need someone who can give a big compassionate ear,” Mr Holland said.
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You can't make this stuff up! This is from the Herald Sun in Australia...The Lort Smith Animal Hospital in North Melbourne is advertising for a fully ordained minister to become its pet chaplain.
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You may have not intended to do so, but I think you have managed to express the state of mind that a lot of people are in. The sense of wanting to help, but without knowing how or where, is something a lot of us are going through.
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I always wanted one but I don’t have time to give them the special attention they deserve. I have two gerbils though and two dogs. I used to own a snake but the lady at the store told me to feed it the wrong thing. Bearded dragons are cool too, cute little guys when they’re just babies. Nice to know a fellow animal lover! My favorite animal would be a tiger. I would one day love to hug one! They’d have to be tame though (of course!).
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leather directiry on Thu, December 24, 2009
Animals should be cared as we take care of our friends, they breath , eat , reproduce and feel the pain like we do.
So please dot hurt animals
leather on Thu, December 24, 2009
Yup they really are the same as us. The difference is we just don’t understand their language.
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