The funds raised will go directly toward helping me, Cooper, and Penny rebuild safety and stability after escaping abuse. Specifically, donations will be used for:

• Housing Security: A deposit of just over $2,000 for one month’s rent at a safe place where we can stay together. This gives me the time to return to work on the 10th and cover the second month myself.

• Legal Support: Ongoing costs to protect myself through the courts, including filing fees and legal guidance as I navigate violations of my protection order.

• Medical & Mental Health Care: I am struggling with severe stress-related health issues and need access to treatment to stay alive and stable while recovering from trauma.

• Veterinary & Medication Costs for Cooper and Penny: My dogs have endured the same trauma and abandonment that I have. They need vet visits, anxiety care, and medications — which are even harder to afford with the new 100% tariff on pharmaceuticals.

• Basic Survival Needs: Food, transportation, and essentials that allow us to keep going day by day until stability is restored.

Every contribution is life-saving. It means safety, it means family, and it means hope. Without this support, I am at risk of losing not just shelter but my life. With it, I can return to work, keep Cooper and Penny safe, and pay forward the help I’ve been given.

My name is Kayleigh and these are my photographed medical service golden retrievers, Cooper and Penny, who assist me with CPTSD and now A-fib episodes from domestic violence, leaving me on FMLA without income. We escaped with each other and a car.

In the long term, victim advocates are working slow but persistent to find us longer placement so I can rest my heart and return to work. In the meantime, the guilt I feel looking at my service dogs who have no idea in the morning we are cramped in a car with most of their prized toys and 2 suitcases; they cannot lay down to even sleep most days. I have so much suffocating guilt for escaping and I need to ask the community for help for temporary shelter to stay safe until placement. I will pay this forward to a victim. If you are one, I am with you. One day at a time. I never wanted to ask for help this way but I’m not sure my dogs looking at me for care and comfort can afford my pride being too big to say, if you can, we appreciate every. single. dollar. ❤️‍

All our love,

Kayleigh, Cooper, & Penny

Friday 9/26/25 UPDATE

We are still fighting like hell to stay together & We're still recovering. Safe and able to do that because of you guys. I woke up and since I have made numerous calls and I spent 31 minutes on the phone with an advocate only to be told that I can't bring my dogs into shelter or even store our things there while I work — because it's "not an emergency." my return date is the 10th.

But this IS an emergency. We lost our home. We're living in hotels and cars, piecing together survival one night at a time. I will never give up Cooper and Penny — they are my family, my lifeline, and the reason | keep going. They are my medical service dogs as well, and since no local shelter makes exceptions, the advocate from LESEVA told me to risk my life, board the dogs, "to be blunt and transparant" with me, and didn't even make a phone call to ask if I could pick my dogs up after work from the shelter worst case scenario. I was giving her reasonable requests, I was told no before she placed a single call on my behalf.

Right now I'm looking into rooms for rent, praying for enough resources to get through the next few days until someone says yes. Until then, we need all the support, encouragement, and virtual hugs we can get.

If you've been following our story, please keep sharing, tapping, and staying with us. Every bit of love helps us keep moving forward. ❤️‍

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