What you did is so rare nowadays, you don't to much see that anymore, life is life no matter how big or tiny, ALL Gods Creatures should be loved and respected.. Thank YOU Blue... for your Big Heart!
Yes Blue, i was the neighborhood animal shelter and vet @ 10 yrs old.. people in the neighborhood would bring their strays, abandoned and hurts animals to me and i would take care of them, the faces of the people with sadness as if to say "can you help him?" i swear our backyard was like a zoo, i spent alot of childhood years doing this, my mother and father with their kind heart did spend money on vets when it got beyond whatever i could do (overtime the vet started giving them a break with certain free services). The best time i remember was a set of the cutest otters were abonadoned and given to me (they were so skinny and not in good health, i researched and called the vet to get the advice on how to care for them) in time got them back to being an.. otter..lol, their playfulness, closeness and the love i had for them lifted me every day, and boy did i have a great time playing and making mud pies with them! One cat we had got hit by a car, the car scalped him and left a whole in the top of his head, everyone thought he was going to die, i said no he won't.. we took him to the vet, the vet stitched his scalp as best he could with all the damage, we named him franky (short for frankenstien) the injury left it mutated so his whole face was a little crooked and he did have some noticible brain damage (he was just a little slow, the vets couldn't beleive this kitty lived and became their icon on our visits and had his picture for inspiration of miracles that can be performed) he lived 10 yrs hehe!!
I had anywhere from my otters to snakes, turtles and lizards, not to mention the birds,
cats and dogs, i didn't give up til i found homes, even once had over 50 frogs!!! LMAOOO