Ark Rescue

10/15/2026

🐾 Just a Friendly Reminder from Ark Rescue! 🩵

While Ark Rescue is a sanctuary filled with love, compassion, and plenty of adorable faces, we are also a registered nonprofit organization with a business to run.

Our days are incredibly busy caring for animals, managing daily operations, maintaining the property, and making sure every resident gets the attention and care they deserve.

We absolutely appreciate everyone who wants to come visit, but please understand that we cannot simply drop everything or rearrange our responsibilities to accommodate someone else’s schedule.

Visits must be discussed, scheduled, and approved in advance based on OUR availability, not just yours.

Please remember that this is also our home, and our time, responsibilities, and personal boundaries deserve to be respected.

We love sharing Ark Rescue with others, but the animals and their care will always come first.

Thank you for understanding and respecting the time, effort, and dedication it takes to keep this sanctuary running. 🩵🐷🐴

10/11/2026

❤️ A Difficult Decision for Ark Rescue at Brightside Acres Sanctuary ❤️

This is a post I never wanted to make.

Due to my ongoing health issues and the severe lack of consistent financial support, I have made the heartbreaking decision to dramatically downsize Ark Rescue, with the possibility of eventually closing.

For years, I have poured everything I have into these animals. My heart, my time, my energy, my health, and far too often, my own personal finances.

The reality is that without consistent donations, the cost of feeding and maintaining this sanctuary falls directly on me. And when the financial support isn’t there, I push myself even harder to make up the difference. My health continues to suffer, and I simply cannot keep living this way.

Love doesn’t fill feed bowls. Love doesn’t pay veterinary bills. And as much as I wish it could, love alone cannot sustain a sanctuary of this size.

Our elderly, disabled, special needs, and hospice residents will remain here. This is their forever home, and that promise will not change.

Our younger, healthy, able-bodied residents will begin seeking new pastures and loving homes where they can continue to thrive.

We are NOT closing at this time. This will be a gradual process, and we will take the time needed to ensure our animals are placed responsibly. The future of Ark Rescue is still uncertain, but our commitment to the animals remains.

I am exhausted, overwhelmed, and heartbroken that it has come to this. I am beyond grateful to everyone who has supported us and continues to do so. Please know that your kindness and generosity have never gone unnoticed.

I’m not asking for pity or tears. I’m simply asking for understanding.

I haven’t run out of love. I haven’t lost my passion. I’ve simply reached a point where I can no longer sacrifice my own health and financial stability to keep this sanctuary operating at its current size.

And admitting that hurts more than I can put into words.

❤️ If you would like to help us continue caring for the animals who call Ark home, our donation options are below. Every contribution, no matter how small, helps provide feed, veterinary care, and the everyday necessities our residents depend on.

🐾 Cash App: $ArkRescueFL
🐾 Venmo:
🐾 PayPal: GracieLou2017
🐾 Zelle: 386-688-9804

Ark Rescue at Brightside Acres Sanctuary Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

Together, Love Fills Every Belly. ❤️🐷

10/01/2026

Here with Kelly Dill taking care of business. Unethical breeding and endangering the lives of others? Not ok and not on our watch.

09/27/2026

2 years ago today Helene came through.

I don’t talk about that night much because I hate reliving it.

And that’s exactly what happens when I do.

I don’t just remember it.

I hear it again.

The wind.
The things hitting the roof.
The things hitting the windows.
Wondering if the roof was going to cave in.
Wondering if a window was going to break.
Wondering what was going to happen next.

I remember being on my hands and knees in the bathroom sobbing and praying because I honestly thought I might die.

I remember telling God if taking me meant my babies would make it through, then take me.

And then crying because I didn’t want to die either.

I meant both.

I would have given anything to keep my animals safe, but I was terrified.

My babies were outside and I couldn’t get to them. I couldn’t protect them. I couldn’t make the storm stop. I couldn’t do anything except pray.

Even typing this makes my anxiety go through the roof.

That’s why I don’t like talking about Helene.

For me, it isn’t just a story about a hurricane.

It’s something I can still feel.

And 2 years later, we are still picking up the pieces.

There is still debris here and there.
Still damage.
Still reminders around the property of what that storm did.

Funny how Helene almost feels like a precursor to what my life was about to become.

One storm after another.

Not wind and rain this time.

Just life.

Loss.
Heartbreak.
Change.
Things falling apart.
Trying to rebuild things I thought would never break.
Trying to figure out what stays and what goes.
Trying to keep moving forward when sometimes I don’t even know what forward looks like.

And maybe that is why this anniversary is hitting me differently this year.

Because once again, I’m picking up pieces.

Just different ones.

But I made it through Helene.

I made it through that night when I honestly thought I wouldn’t.

And I will make it through this too.

I don’t say that in some inspirational, everything-happens-for-a-reason kind of way.

I say it because I have no other choice but to keep going.

Helene is a memory I wish I never had.

But it is also proof that I have already survived something I thought was going to destroy me.

And apparently I’m still here.

09/25/2026

Shelley Emerick Billie Jo Corum

💙🐷 $5 FRIDAY — BROUGHT TO YOU BY WALL-E! 🐷💙

Wall-e would like to remind everyone that five little dollars may not seem like much, but when a whole bunch of our Ark family comes together, those $5 gifts add up fast. They help fill feed bowls, buy hay, cover medications, and keep all of our precious bellies full. 🐽💕

So today, Wall-e is flashing that handsome smile and asking:

Can you spare $5 for the animals who call Ark home?

Every single gift matters, no matter the size, and we are so grateful for everyone who continues to love and support our babies right alongside us.

Tiny snout. Big heart. $5 can make a difference. 💙

Cash App: $ArkRescueFL
Venmo: ArkRescueFL
PayPal: GracieLou2017
Zelle: 386-688-9804

Thank you for being part of our Ark family. 🐷🐴🐐🐓💙

09/25/2026

💙🐷 $5 FRIDAY — BROUGHT TO YOU BY WALL-E! 🐷💙

Wall-e would like to remind everyone that five little dollars may not seem like much, but when a whole bunch of our Ark family comes together, those $5 gifts add up fast. They help fill feed bowls, buy hay, cover medications, and keep all of our precious bellies full. 🐽💕

So today, Wall-e is flashing that handsome smile and asking:

Can you spare $5 for the animals who call Ark home?

Every single gift matters, no matter the size, and we are so grateful for everyone who continues to love and support our babies right alongside us.

Tiny snout. Big heart. $5 can make a difference. 💙

Cash App: $ArkRescueFL
Venmo: ArkRescueFL
PayPal: GracieLou2017
Zelle: 386-688-9804

Thank you for being part of our Ark family. 🐷🐴🐐🐓💙

09/22/2026

This is every morning….

09/21/2026

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