Please Comment with your dog’s breed and their name!
This ornament is made non-profit with all proceeds to benefit Terri McLeod and Lazy Day’s Boarding.
Terri McLeod is a Wake County, North Carolina public school teacher. She is a single mother with a 16-year-old son. Virtually all public school teachers in Wake County in single-earner households must maintain second and even third jobs and/or side gigs in order to meet their families' most basic financial needs. Teacher pay is low and the County and its local towns are raising property taxes at staggering rates. Terri's recent pay raise was eaten up ENTIRELY by the increases in Wake County and Town of Cary property taxes. [Her Cary real-property tax alone increased over 56% from 2023 to 2024.] Terri's second jobs over the years, required to provide income to be able to afford her home, include delivering pizzas, ride sharing, clerking in a hardware store, and selling purses.
Terri and her son love dogs. They found that offering an overnight dog-sitting service could provide enough extra income so that Terri didn't need to work extra jobs to afford their home and its increasing costs.
A week or so ago [about Oct. 15, 2024] , a County official informed her that the dog enterprise she was conducting would be classified as a kennel. A kennel requires special wastewater treatment that includes a septic system. The cost of that system is not known, but estimated to be between $12,000 and $35,000.
Help Keep Terri in Cary
See her GoFundMe @ https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-terri-in-cary
Please Comment with your dog’s breed and their name!
This ornament is made non-profit with all proceeds to benefit Terri McLeod and Lazy Day’s Boarding.
Terri McLeod is a Wake County, North Carolina public school teacher. She is a single mother with a 16-year-old son. Virtually all public school teachers in Wake County in single-earner households must maintain second and even third jobs and/or side gigs in order to meet their families' most basic financial needs. Teacher pay is low and the County and its local towns are raising property taxes at staggering rates. Terri's recent pay raise was eaten up ENTIRELY by the increases in Wake County and Town of Cary property taxes. [Her Cary real-property tax alone increased over 56% from 2023 to 2024.] Terri's second jobs over the years, required to provide income to be able to afford her home, include delivering pizzas, ride sharing, clerking in a hardware store, and selling purses.
Terri and her son love dogs. They found that offering an overnight dog-sitting service could provide enough extra income so that Terri didn't need to work extra jobs to afford their home and its increasing costs.
A week or so ago [about Oct. 15, 2024] , a County official informed her that the dog enterprise she was conducting would be classified as a kennel. A kennel requires special wastewater treatment that includes a septic system. The cost of that system is not known, but estimated to be between $12,000 and $35,000.
Help Keep Terri in Cary
See her GoFundMe @ https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-terri-in-cary
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