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Welcome
to the Animal Refuge Center!
 Services
Provided By The Animal Refuge Center To Benefit Hardin & Surrounding
Counties
1. Operates as a no-kill shelter in Vine Grove,
Kentucky
2. Adoption center to find loving and permanent homes for
sheltered pets. Our adoption fees are $50.00 for cats, $65.00
for dogs. This is a reasonable fee for a pet who comes spayed
or neutered, tested and up to date with all vaccines.
3. Pet placement referral service/Lost and Found: If unable
to accept surrendered pets, our service tries to match animals
with prospectivenew pet owner via our Bulletin Board at (270)
877-6064. Also feel free to call Free Classifieds at the NewsEnterprise
at 769-1200, Ext. 220. Our Bulletin Board is updated frequently
to reunite lost pets with their owners. We have had many happy
reunions.
4. Provide a final resting place in our St.Francis
Pet Cemetary. (Tour coming soon.)
5. Humane education programs: The Animal Refuge Center has
appeared for talks with 4-H groups, Girl Scouts/Boy Scouts.
Field Trips are designed to educate our youngsters and show
the everyday workings of an animal shelter.
6. Human Interest Programs: Pet Therapy for Seniors, Community
Alternatives of KY, Court Designated Workers Program.
7. Provides a spay/neuter program for all unaltered animals
adopted from the shelter. Also offerslow-cost spay & neuter
program for the public through Dixie Animal Hospital.
8. Provides a quarterly newsletter and educational literature
to keep supporters updated on the happenings at the shelter
as well as important animal issues and helpful hints.
9. Provides permanent, loving home for unadoptable
livestock.
10. Provides a tornado safety shelter and emergency
pet rescue in time of emergency evacuation.
11. Provide volunteer opportunities for citizens
who want to make a difference in their Community: Animal Caretaker,
Pet Therapy Volunteer,speaking in schools, office Admin Assistant,
Newsletter, Public Relations.Just email
for info on how to help.
Every Day is Spay Day At The Animal Refuge
Center
 TheAnimal
Refuge Center in Vine Grove currently has 160 cats and 12
adoptable dogs available for adoption; 15 total dogs available
for sponsorship. For $10 per month, a person can sponsor
either a dog or cat in the Sponsor Program, which helps
the shelter to meet it's monthly operating expenses. Sponsor
families will receive a sponsor packet with monthly sponsor
tickets, a photo of their sponsor pet(s), and a pawprint-signed
Christmas card from their sponsor pet.
Adopting an ARC animal involves several steps (but we
have NO waiting list):
- You must be at least 18 years old or accompanied by an
adult.
- You must fill out a questionaire and an application, plus
an adoptioncontract.
- All animals have current shots and are spayed or neutered.
- If the animal is younger than six months, a free spay/neuter
certificate redeemable at Dixie Animal Hospital in Valley
Station, KY (personal vets sometimes accept them; please
call your veterinarian and ask first) is given to adopter
at time of adoption.
- The fees for adoption are $50 for cats and $65 for dogs.
- All adoption fees are non-refundable.
Tell your family and friends interested in adopting a pet
about the A.R.C., so that we can not only place our own
orphans into new loving homes, but we can continue helping
other homeless animals in need!
Animal Refuge Center, Inc.
webmaster@animalrefugecenter.org
185 Basham Trail
Vine Grove, KY 40175
(270) 877-6064
United States
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