Please stop all the fighting! It is frustrating me and I'm not even the one who is getting bashed!

You guys don't know most of the story. Her mom makes Bri take care of all the animals, basically. She cleans up for all of them and takes care of them all by herself. Yes, some of you are going to say that you did the same thing but considering what they have been through in the past couple of months, I think it's quite an improvement.

As most of you can remember, her mom lost her job, they lost almost everything because of a break in and yet, her mom still let her keep the animals. If it was my family, my mom would've made me get rid of them. However, Bri fought for them to stay and she succeeded but now she is still on shaky legs and needs help to pay for some vet care.

I have no idea how all of Bri's threads turn out into some sort of argument. Please look at yourselves. Most of you guys are adults who yes, may have problems with their own family and my sympathy goes out to you, but you are bashing a 14 year old girl asking for help because her animals may go to a kill shelter and DIE! She doesn't have the ability to go out and find a job and help her mom pay for everything. She can't automatically increase her age by two or three years so she can go find a job. She is pretty much helpless right now. Yes I'm sure she can go do those little things like cut lawns and stuff, but I know that won't get her that much money. She also may not have the equipment or her mom may not let her. I know my mom wouldn't let me go out alone and do all these jobs. I'm sure she wants to raise her own money but she probably can't because of her parent's restrictions.

Please stop all this fighting. It doesn't help at all, and I know that it hurts Bri more than you know. I talk to her a lot on IM and she is always really upset at all this bashing. Her self esteem drops like crazy and she has even told me she thinks she's the worst pet owner ever and that her pets should be given away...She herself has said that because of all the bashing going on through all her years on PT. Yes, I know you guys are concerned for her but even if you don't think you're rude, make sure to double check the way other people may interpret you're post. It may help a lot.

And many (((HUGS))) to Bri because I know she needs them right now.

Sorry for such a long post, I couldn't help myself.