The Need Has Never Been More Urgent “I mean to do something grand. I don’t know what, yet; but when I’m grown up I shall find out. Perhaps, it will be rowing out in boats, and saving peoples’ lives, like that girl in the book. Or perhaps I shall go and nurse in the hospital, like Miss Nightingale. Or else…
Author: Animal Refuge Center
Animal Refuge Center Celebrates 30 Years
MARY ALFORD The News-Enterprise 5:30 am September 2, 2019 Vine Grove Animal Refuge Center is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a Puppy Plunge. The pool party and cookout is from 1 to 5 p.m. Sept. 14 at 308 Linda Lane in Elizabethtown. Manager Penny Edwards said it costs $5 for a dog to take a dip in the pool, but…
A New ARC Program: Seniors For Seniors!
After 30 years of rescuing animals, you learn to rely on tried and true methods to get your shelter animals into Forever Homes. Some of the most reliable ways to market the homeless animals in your care are Petfinder, Facebook and other social media, along with adoption events at supporting businesses like Feeders Supply and PetSmart. These methods are fairly…
Voices From The ARC August 2019 Available NOW!
Be the FIRST to get your hands on a DIGITAL copy of the August issue of Voices of the ARC before it mails out to our mailing list subscribers! Great news, upcoming special events celebrating our 30 Years of Saving Lives and more! AND all links in this digital PDF are clickable! You can donate to save homeless pets directly…
It’s Kitten Time! Need Knows No Season. Give Now!
It’s kitten time again! Please help us meet the yearly influx of kittens and mothers by donating to our Spay and Neuter Fund! This money also goes to Cookie’s Legacy trap-neuter-release rescues to cut down on the numbers of unwanted and homeless Community Cats in our county! Your contribution will accomplish so much good. Give today!
30 Years of Animal Rescue: A Rollercoaster Ride!
30 years! It’s been a rollercoaster ride. There have been so many highs and lows, but thirty years later we are still saving so many lives. I’ve been a worker at the Animal Refuge Center for 27 years, and a volunteer three years before that. On one hand, it feels like I’ve been there an eternity but then again, sometimes…
Cats, A Few Dogs the Life of the Animal Refuge Center Christmas Party
JEFF D’ALESSIO The News-Enterprise 6 am 12/3/18 As visitors to Sunday afternoon’s annual Christmas party at the Animal Refuge Center in Vine Grove sipped drinks and snacked on cake and other items, some of the dozens of cats who call 185 Basham Trail home rubbed up against their new friends. Others stared as guests walked around. “They like having people…
Animal Refuge Center Christmas Party!
Join us December 2nd, 2018 for our Annual Christmas Party! A day of food, fun any furry antics as we celebrate not only the year, but our wonderful supporters who make our work in the community possible. Don’t miss your chance to participate in our Thomas Kinkade Raffle! Our Gift Shop at the Animal Refuge Center is full of wonderful…
Community Champions: Lee’s Tae Kwon Do Kickathon
Amazing Kids Kick Up Donations For Homeless Pets! Always Stand By The Weak What an exciting day at Lee’s Tae Kwon Do Studio! Dedicated Kids Kick up Hope For Homeless Animals …..When you work or volunteer for rescue organizations, it’s easy to see more bad than good in people. You spend most of your time healing, and attempting to repair…
Voices From the ARC – Summer 2018
Welcome to the latest installment of Voices From the ARC! FREE digital download for our Facebook and Twitter fans! SHARE THIS POST. You can donate online at our Paypal.me link, or use the QR code and clickable links in our digital newsletter!
Adoption Day! Saturday July 21, 2018
Picasso and Autumn went home together today, both are from Cecilia hoarder. Waffles was groomed and went with Jack and Chris Smith. Stay tuned for our latest Good Mews Monday updates on Facebook! The Animal Refuge Center has these and many more Pets For Adoption still longing to find their Forever Home! SHARE this page, and be sure to check…
THRIVE: Inside Vine Grove’s Animal Refuge Center
Check out this amazing documentary on our shelter by Jon Decker!! As we quickly approach July 29, 2019, our 30th anniversary of our heartfelt commitment to saving homeless pets, we have to take how far we have come and commit to the future. We have 500 supporters on our physical mailing list. On our Facebook page we have 2,128 followers.…
Need Knows No Season! Are You An ARC Sponsor Yet?
Check out our Sponsor Program and take care of a homeless pet until it finds its Forever Home.
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Pet For Adoption: Cassie
Cassie is a beautiful 4 year old kitty from a litter of 6, all solid gray kittens, that were very feral when they arrived at ARC. Paula and Chase found homes and Cassie is the only remaining kitty; very outgoing and looking for her forever home. Cassie is a real goofball, and doesn’t mind being carried around. Cassie loves being…
Remembering Mick
Multiple community pleas begged us to help Mick out of his misery. Tethered to a porch in a trailer park during the -20° deep freeze in Dec-Jan, 2017-18, excruciating for any creature to be in, Mick had only frozen food, a frozen water bowl and a filthy frozen blanket in his plastic house: the trailer was abandoned. We secured him,…