05/05/2026
💔💔💔OFFICIALLY CLOSED FOR INTAKE 💔💔💔
For the first time in almost 4 years, our sanctuary is officially having to close our doors to the community, and to SO many animals in need, and we are actively having to turn animals away due to lack of funds and volunteers!!😩😩
Our sanctuary is 100% volunteer-run with NO paid staff, and is currently at FULL CAPACITY with 248 rescue animals!! (17 of which are on hospice care!!)
Due to a clerical error at the fault of the IRS, our nonprofit tax exemption status was mistakenly auto-revoked last month—making us now ineligible for the much needed 2026 community grants we are typically awarded each year that help us to maintain our sanctuary, and leaving us temporarily unable to fundraise!😵💫
With Summer around the corner, and the Florida summer heat increasing, we’ve also seen a drastic decrease in volunteers consistently coming to lend a helping hand!!(Leaving our Founder Stephanie working nonstop around-the-clock cleaning + caretaking for the animals to ensure the level of care & compassion our rescue animals need & deserve! (Compassion fatigue/burn out is seriously creeping in 😪)
With limited help + the anxiety of Hurricane Season just around the corner, our main goal/priority right now is to focus on the safety and security of the animals ALREADY in our care.. while doing our very best to adopt out and find SAFE loving forever homes for our eligible rescued animals!
The steel barn that kept our animals alive during Milton will NOT be strong enough to withstand another higher category hurricane 🌀 without the addition of spray foam insulation— meaning when this upcoming storm season rolls around, space will be is extremely tight/limited!
The funds we receive from our animal Boarding program is helping to cover most of our feed/hay bill for the animals.. but we still need help to raise an additional $4,000+ EACH MONTH to cover operational expenses like RENT, UTILITIES, INSURANCES, TRANSPORTATION, etc.!!
RIGHT NOW, we are in desperate need of both MONEY 💰 and MANPOWER 💪🏻!!! (Funds/volunteers!) Or we will soon be dangerously close to having to shut our doors.. potentially forever!! 😭💔