Dooks of Earl Ferret Rescue and Safe Haven

07/11/2025

I'm sorry to the homemakers who take pride in their nice clean orderly homes. But it's that time of year that we must remind you that your filthy disease carrying beasts can't stand these temperatures. Please let your men and children in the house. Not on the couch in front of the AC, though, that's where the dogs, cats, and ferrets like to nap.

07/11/2025

I'm feeling defeated working 60-80 hours weekly for animal rescue without pay. I'm frustrated seeing CEOs of big charities making millions while I struggle to make ends meet. The animals and communities we serve deserve better. I'm not giving up, but it's heartbreaking to turn away those in need due to lack of resources.

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07/11/2025

Can we talk some real talk right now?

I obviously didn't get into rescue work because it was profitable, but it can be absolutely heartbreaking that I spend 60-80 hours every week trying to get grants or donations, writing emails, texts, and posts begging y'all for donations, and getting nothing. I don't get paid for this. As the matter of fact, every penny I can scratch up or earn goes to the rescue. Then I see that the CEOs of these big charities are on salary for MILLIONS of dollars. One year of their salary could run this rescue for several years.

Nonprofit CEO in Tennessee is approximately $74,557, and executive director an average around $63,209. And those are considered lower pay amongst the CEOs and executive directors of nonprofits. Every one of our human workers; me, the board of directors, volunteers I wish I could pay so they could be here full time, everyone is not only volunteering, we make side hustle and money from our jobs and households that goes into the rescue.

While you are dumping your change into those buckets, remember that $679,221 is going to pay one person in that company doing one job while there are several of us out here living on ramen noodles, doing 4+ workers jobs for our rescues, and still awake at 4:11 am praying, crying, grinding our teeth and begging "God, please just let us pull off enough to get by another month. They need us too much for us to close."

They pay grant writers, workers, board members, everyone in their company. I'm not hating that they can. I'm hating that we can't. I'm hating that all our passion, hard work, blood, sweat, tears, prayers, all mean nothing sometimes. I'm hating that they get corpora and government funding and we can't get anything like that and are still losing out on the grants we can try for to places that have steady streams of funding.

It's beyond heart breaking. The animals we serve deserve better. The communities and people we help deserve better.

So when you see me figure out how to do only fans, don't judge me. I'm out of stuff to sell, I can't even get a big following on our social media platforms, and I can't just give up. They need me.

Please don't kick me while I am down. I know this was a long rant and I don't expect any of you read the whole thing. I'm just feeling really defeated and I got a call about a baby with a tumor that needs me to take him and for the first time ever, I had to say that I can't right now. It's devastating to feel like a failure when I am working so hard to just get by.

07/11/2025

🚨WARNING: CAT WITH ATTITUDE🚨
Meet Lyla – 10 lbs of fury, fluff, and fabulousness.

Do you like your pets with a little ✨spite✨ and a dash of ✨emotional damage✨?
Well, buckle up, because Lyla’s not here to be your emotional support animal—she's here to rule your life and then ignore you for hours.

💅 She hates:
– Other animals (ew)
– Children (double ew)
– Being told what to do
– Sharing the spotlight
– Eye contact she didn’t initiate

💘 She tolerates:
– You, maybe, if you bring offerings of treats and eat scritches and shut up about it

Lyla is giving strong "I’m not mad, I’m just not emotionally available" vibes.

She doesn’t want to “learn to get along.” She wants to live alone, dramatically, like a 1920s screen siren who fake coughs and says things like “leave me… I’m too beautiful to suffer.”

If you’ve ever been described as “too much” by your ex or “a lot” by your coworkers, congratulations—you might be Lyla’s soulmate.

🏡 Must be: – Pet-free
– Kid-free
– Emotionally stable enough to handle being judged by a cat 24/7

📍Now accepting applications for Lyla’s humble servant. You will be interviewed (by her stare).