Words cannot even begin to express the sadness and loss I am feeling right now, and i did not even know her personally.

I was laying in bed, scrolling on my phone before i get up for the day… when I saw the news of her passing on TMZ this morning, I was in complete shock. This lady sure touched a lot of people all around the world. She was young, beautiful, was married, had a daughter and even, out of selflessness, accepted to be a surrogate for a couple who could not have children. She loved animals from a very young age, especially foxes, who are highly misunderstood, like a lot of animals, coyotes, wolves, bears and many more who suffer at the hands of humans every year. Mikayla was a huge advocate for foxes and she saved so many animals and offered them the best possible life they could ever hope for. She wasn’t a Youtube Star like most news sites who know nothing about her, claim her to be. She only used her platforms to raises money to help care for the animals.

You want to know what’s really sad about all this ? Mikayla suffered from mental illnesses, like many of us, me included. She recognizes them, learned to live with them the best she could and even became an advocate for those illnesses and helped a lot of people who suffered from them as well with her regular posts on her Facebook. She was like one of us, only she could use her platform to reach many more people and help many more who read her posts. This young woman was a mother, a gentle soul and cared deeply for animals of all kinds. I have been following her for many years, when her rescue was a lot smaller. Her whole life was revolving and dedicated to the animals. I really admired her for the hard work she did and how far she managed to go. Her social media and platforms were only to raise money for the animals in her care, but still, we have people who judged her for that. They judged her for being on social media too much. They judged her for not wanting to sell her favorite truck which she had worked so hard for and had saved with her own money. They judged her for her appearance, for the way she was dressing, raising her daughter, her animals, her life, the air she breathed.

She was constantly being judged no matter what she did. Mikayla being the sweet, gentle, human she has always been, never ever called out people on their terrible judgement, always having to explain herself for why she did this or did that. Unfortunately, being the human she was, she took things people told her, personally and I believe her husband Ethan, 100% that bullying led her to make the unfathomable act that led her to take her life. You see, people on the internet are so tough, behind their computer screens, their phones, their tablets, that they pass judgement on others without ever thinking about the consequences of their actions and how words can affect people. It’s is sad that this young woman was fighting for the well being of every animals, and pointed out some things certain people she thought might not be doing right by their rescue animals, without ever naming actually names, yet these same people felt personally accused and came on posting their nastiness on this woman’s personal page.

Bullying has been going on in school, work for years and years and nobody ever pays the consequences of their actions, especially how their words can affect their victims, taking no blame for what they might have said that led to someone taking their own life. Now a mother, wife, animal advocate, has gone too soon. What is it about people trying to do some good and others rescues constantly bashing them when they have the same purpose and should be working together ? What is it about jealous people who can’t take a pretty woman trying to do her best to live her life helping thousands of animals and mentally suffering from internet people who think it’s a good idea to bully her, while she has worked ten times harder than ANY of us ever will in our entire selfish lives. This is disgusting. Innocent, mentally ill people with depression will continue to suffer the consequences of bullying if people just don’t stop for a minute and REALLY think about HOW their words can affect others ? There is even a Reddit group basically, that was created entirely to bash Mikayla and her rescue…. Now, all of sudden, they have turned into a private group, like the cowards they are.

This woman was taken too soon from us from those bullies ! I saw it every time she would post something personal on her PRIVATE personal page that had nothing to do with the rescue, people leaving nasty comments and making fun of her for trying to raise money for the animals, any way she could. Do you people even know how hard, how much work, and how expensive it is to run such a big rescue as she did ? All of her animals had super nice enclosures, enrichment, were healthy, well fed, cared for, brought to the vet if needed. She didn’t need people’s nasty word to destroy what she had worked on hard to built. It’s so disgusting to see humans verbally attack one another on social media instead of trying to be more understanding of all the sacrifices it takes to run a rescue, a sanctuary, to help animals that WE humans chose to neglect in the first place, or use for our own selfishness, impulsivity.

I too, am shocked by this devastating news. She is gone and her animals are going to miss their best friend spending time with them. Her daughter is going to miss her mother on prom night, graduation, her wedding, her first born child, all because of people who don’t have anything better to do with their own lives but to make everyone else as miserable as they are. Her husband will never get to grow old with his wife, watch her smile, care for animals, or lose her phone in some random place. He lost his best friend, soulmate and love of his life because people who don’t have anything nice to say feel the need to spread their nastiness in real life and on the internet.

I could never ever forgive myself if my words touched someone so much that they would take their own lives. We only have ONE life people !!! Nobody needs you to be nasty to other people. Nobody needs to see you bully other people. Nobody needs to see you using that laughing emoji some like to do, because that STILL can hurt people’s feelings. It’s not about being emotional, it’s about being humans and what makes us HUMANS. It’s not that hard to understand. Empathy is what differentiate us from evil, from psychopath, sociopath, people who enjoy making others miserable or torture and mistreat animals, for their own pleasure. It’s nothing to be proud of. I have been bullied, physically abused and you will never see me taking pleasure out of abusing innocent animals or bullying other people, because of it. It’s nothing to be proud of. It’s disgusting, nothing more. Bringing someone down because you don’t like them or don’t agree with them, is just a sad, disgusting behavior that really doesn’t make you better at all, on the contrary. Your actions have consequences and sadly, it’s often the innocent, most gentle, caring people that suffer the most for it.

Most of us will always have much more respect for people who care about one another, who don’t need to be nasty to others to make themselves feel superior or better. Most of us will always like the man who saves those ducklings or goslings crossing the road, not the ones who are sadistic and purposely run over them to end their lives just because they have no soul and find it funny. Most of us will always have much more respect and love for people who shoot animals with their camera, and not trophy hunting, contest hunting or just killing animals for their own pleasure, and because it gives them a god complex. A lot of us, especially as we grow older, have a better understanding of life and all living creatures in it and we have more respect for it. Those kind, gentle souls are the ones that make this world a better place to live in. When you bully someone to death, you take that person away from a lot of people who care for that human. It leaves an emptiness that cannot be described.

When is it going to stop ?

Heartbreaking post from Mikayla’s Husband, Ethan.

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