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…
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ARC’s Good Mews Monday The Animal Refuge Center is back with more Good Mews! Our sweet, Great Pyrenees Mix, Bailey went to her forever home a little over a week ago. She is a calm and gentle girl, who’s very laid back and quiet. Bailey was at our rescue for about a month, but she showed us that she is…
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ARC’s Good Mews Monday We are back with more good mews as three of our wonderful female kitties have found their forever homes! First up is Jewel, a perky, petite and very pretty Tortoiseshell, who we rescued from a hoarding situation. Jewel is very silly and talkative too. She has a variety of meow melodies and loves to flip and…
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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…
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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!
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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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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…
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Pets are the perfect companion. They love you unconditionally, they are super cute, and they can help reduce the amount of anxiety you feel — what’s not to like? If you are thinking of adopting a pet for the first time, you are in for a lot of trials and tribulations, but also a whole lot of joy! To help…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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Winter is Coming! Last year we barely got out of 21 days of some of the most unbearable freezing cold we have seen in decades, and this year will likely be more of the same. There is always a need for winter fosters for ARC’s animals. Our kennel area at the Animal Refuge Center is top-notch, state of the…
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Get in one last tax-deductible gift! ARC has had an amazing year. 2017 may be nearly over, but there’s still time to make one last tax-deductible gift to the animals! Your gift today will go straight to work, saving the lives of animals all across Hardin County, Kentucky through adoption and spay/neuter programs, no-kill initiatives and more. Plus, your gift…
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