The Animal Refuge Center is pleased to report we received more than $1,000 in Memory of Betty White to support the homeless pets of the ARC. January 17, 2022 – Fans Honor Betty White’s Birthday With Heartwarming “Betty White Challenge” As such, the #BettyWhiteChallenge, which implores people to give to a local animal shelter in White’s name, spread on social…
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The fantastic folks at Family Dollar in Vine Grove, KY are teamed up with us once again for our annual Angel Tree Drive! Tentative date for our Angel Tree box setup is 16-23 November, 2020. So support our friends at Family Dollar through the holiday season, do your part, and stay safe! The SEASON OF GIVING is upon us once…
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Greetings, Animal Refuge Center fans! It’s been just a little over six months since our world turned upside down and we had to go on shutdown to protect everything we’ve worked for. For many of us, this has been the strangest experience of a lifetime. We’ve been busy. There’ve been a couple of times ARC had to go on full…
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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…
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Complete Grant Report What was the money or product used for? We put this money into our Medical Fund and Cookie’s Legacy (our spay/neuter fund for Community Cats). How did this grant help your organization and the pets in your care? It gave our shelter the capability to help animals that come to us with medical conditions that cost extra…
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The loss of a teenager is a life event that no parent wishes to go through in their lifetime. That loss, as well as shock, grief, and coming to grips with an endless horizon of hopes and dreams unrealized going up in a horrifying puff of smoke has a huge impact on both family and friends alike. Today we, family…
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Assistant Manager Dodie Welch of the Vine Grove Family Dollar was thrilled to announce yesterday that ALL the pet angels on our Angel Tree had been claimed! Dodie, pictured at right, proudly shows off the tree now empty of angels. Generous patrons and customers, as well as many of the Family Dollar employees, all pitched in to claim an ornament…
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ANIMAL REFUGE CENTER AWARDED $10,000 GRANT AS PART OF $250,000 DONATION FROM PETFINDER TO CELEBRATE 20th ANNIVERSARY Local Animal Refuge Center, Inc. one of 25 organizations nationwide to receive a donation from Petfinder to celebrate its 20th anniversary and 25 million pet adoptions PRESS RELEASE (December 7, 2016) – Petfinder, the nation’s leading resource for pet adoption, announced in November…
Read MoreWe had a great time Friday night! Emily opened the event by singing a Happy Birthday to Penny Edwards and Dr. Ruth Beismer, both celebrating their birthdays on 23 September.
Read MoreThis video premiered at the Animal Refuge Center Presents: Emily West! concert at the Historic State Theater in Elizabethtown, KY on September 23, 2016. This memorable slideshow outlines in hundreds of photos the beginnings of the Animal Refuge Center in 1989, when founder Joan Jost broke off from Bluegrass Humane Society to create her own non-profit, no kill shelter. Through…
Read MoreWednesday, April 6, 2016 at 3:00 am (Updated: April 6, 3:00 am) Staff and volunteers at Vine Grove Animal Refuge spent most of their day Tuesday unloading a ton of donated food — literally. It’s the eighth year the organization has benefited from a donation of 2,000 pounds of pet food from four organizations in Hardin County — Kentucky Farm…
Read MoreBy Neal Cardin Monday, December 7, 2015 at 4:30 am (Updated: December 7, 4:30 am) A beautiful fall day in December drew a large crowd Sunday to the Animal Refuge Center Inc. near Vine Grove for its annual Christmas party. As people entered the house, Zeus, a large dog, stood just inside a sliding door more or less standing in…
Read MoreLook what we did! We SURPASSED the initial amount needed to repair Jake’s knees, and because of YOUR generous donations, we are able to help another homeless pet in need. Little Susie has two dislocated knees, and can barely walk. We can get her surgery scheduled and get her on her way to living pain free, and on her way…
Read MoreBy Jill Pickett, The News Enterprise Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 2:54 pm (Updated: April 20, 7:28 am) Copy by ARC Webmaster, Pam Harrison The Animal Refuge Center joined the PAWS United Network yesterday at the Pritchard Community Center in Elizabethtown, KY for the network’s first-ever event, Bail Me Out of the Shelter Pet Expo! A great time was had…
Read More–Pam Harrison, Site Admin Been a warm and fuzzy day. On New Year’s Day, coming home from a family visit, we rescued this lost dog, dodging cars on the Western KY Parkway. Penny lured her over with my sandwich, and the poor girl seemed grateful to have a ride to somewhere. This dog had never been inside a home a…
Read MoreWritten by Penny Edwards The Summer of 2013 has proven to be a season of extremes. It’s either been cooler than usual or very hot, with a heat index of 100° or more. Life revolving around the animals and ARC has been much the same over the past few months. We lost our goat Clark back in Spring, so we…
Read More–By Penny Edwards These two dogs bring a smile to our faces every day. They both help remind us why ARC is a necessary safe haven for our furry friends. Bailey and Dudley both came to us with very different stories, but each one has left their pawprints on our hearts. Bailey has been at ARC for almost a year.…
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