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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***** [BRANDY HAS BEEN ADOPTED. WE ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTING ADOPTION APPLICATIONS FOR THIS PET] ***** December 17, 2017 saw a landmark day in our social media posts when our puppy Brandy’s #Petfinder profile went viral on us! By 9:00 am today we were sitting at 17356 people reached, 71 likes and reactions and 206 shares and numerous adoption applications.…
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ARC’s Good Mews Monday Lots of love for the dogs this week as we saw 3 of them go to pawesome furever homes. What’s pawsably even more exciting however, is that our senior kitty and one of our most popular cats, Misha also found her purrfect home. 1. Misha 2. Elsa 3. Jimmy 4. Auggie Our 30 dollar special for…
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It’s that time of the year again when we report back to you about Cookie’s Legacy. Back in February 2016 our world forever changed when we took in an injured community cat from Radcliff, KY. She had been hit by a car and was permanently paralyzed on her hind legs. This little black kitty never knew warmth, kindness or a…
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Article by Penny Edwards, Manager Animal Refuge Center, Inc. Last year ARC made a decision to help as many animals from the Hardin County Animal Shelter as possible. Up to this point, we’ve taken in approximately 105 cats and approximately 20 dogs and more than 70 of those cats and dogs have come from HCAS alone. Everyone asks if we…
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Recently someone from our old ARC Team dropped in to give us an update: AWWWW–!! We recently got this message from Chrissie Willis who was part of the ARC team more than 12 years ago. She was… Posted by Animal Refuge Center Inc on Tuesday, October 3, 2017 Had to dig around for a few minutes…but I found it.…
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I saw the need for this article and dialogue after recently discussing spay and neuter with a local person who wanted to get their cat spayed, yet refused to spay their cat on religious grounds … she was pregnant. They did not believe in abortion for ANY reason. And THEN a few weeks later they asked the Animal Refuge Center…
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