Mikayla, the founder and driving force behind Save-A-Fox Rescue, took her life recently, leaving behind her husband and little girl. She was autistic and suffered from depression and borderline personality disorder. She and her people have saved hundreds of animals; many have new homes because of her. Apparently, several “close” friends, combined with some other animal rescues, deluged her with many negative posts about her rescue and handling of animals and her depression sent her over the edge. RIP, Mrs. Raines, you will be missed and not just by the animals whose lives you saved.
This is horrible. I adored her interactions with Finnegan Fox. She and he appeared many times on my Facebook feed.
I have never felt sorrier for another human being as I do for her husband, feeling like he has to give a statement over the Internet — LIKE HE OWES US SOMETHING! Poor man.
Steve Cash and now this?!
Here is his response to this. It is hard to watch.
I first heard about her today but, for the last week or two, Facebook’s been feeding me up fox, opossum and squirrel rescue stories so one of the fox rescues posted a sad farewell for her today and description of her recent ordeals. She sounded like an exceptionally caring and devoted person to both her family and to her animals and it’s a shame and a loss that people weaponized that devotion against her to drive her to take her own life.
OMG, is that the Finnegan Fox girl? I’ve watched those videos many times. What a beautiful and loving person. Such a devastating loss to her family and to the world.
Apologies if this seems like bad form, but how about a chuckle?:
People can get so nasty to people who rescue or interact in anyway with wild animals.
I feel like this, if they come to your place(which maybe was their home first) and seemingly ask for aid, I’m not able to turn my back.
I was shocked to see that video today. I didnt really follow her, but would see a video from time to time. It looked like a nice environment for a rescue/shelter, lots of space and the animals seemed well cared for.
I cant understand how people could drive someone to do what she ultimately did.
There is also a wild bear and animal rescue channel based out of new york I follow a bit. I really hope they arent being harrassed by the same people/groups.
The foxes weren’t wild. They were captive born for the fur trade or surrendered pets. Absolutely unreleasable.
RIP, Ms. Raines
There was, reportedly, a whole ‘snark’ subreddit dedicated to criticising and bullying her. I’m obviously not going to link it in this thread (not much point anyway as I heard the people there are busy deleting their posts/accounts and locking things down to try to cover their tracks - of course the data/evidence they’re trying to destroy is not actually gone).