Grayson County Humane Society/SPCA
December, 2008: Twelve of our precious dogs have literally been here for 1-2+ years (YES - YEARS!). These special dogs, shown below and in order of their appearance, are: KD, Felicity, Babette, Mitzi, Honey, Sebastian, Eli Manning, Payton Manning, Daisy, Keno, Spencer, and Piper. It's now starting to get cold in Kentucky, and even though our outdoor runs are covered, it's no way for a dog to live. Please consider adopting or rescuing one of our wonderful dogs.
While we do not have a specific kill date, when we are full, we have to euthanize. When we are not full, we do our best to love and care for each pet with all of our abilities. However, our work force is too small for the number of pets we currently care for. Our shelter is full and when we look at these trusting faces we know the end is near for many of them.
Our shelter pets have been treated for whatever may have ailed them. They have been spayed or neutered. Some, sadly, have spent much more of their lives here than they have ever spent anywhere else. We can tell you about each and every one of them. Please just ask.
They are our friends and they desperately need adopters or rescue. Our area simply does not have adopters. Please consider offering a safe place to one of them today.
Grayson County Humane Society
213 William Thomason Byway
Leitchfield, KY 42754
270-230-8839
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December 14th deadline fast approaching!
PLEASE -- help us win $27,000!!
As part of their $100,000 Shelter Challenge, The Animal Rescue Site (www.theanimalrescuesite.com) is donating a total of $100,000 in grants to animal shelters or rescue groups that are listed on Petfinder.com.
From September 29th, 2008 until December 14th, 2008, weekly awards of $1,000 will be given to the rescue organization with the most votes accumulated during each week. On December 15th, 2008, The Animal Rescue Site will announce the winners of the final prizes. One $1,000 grant will be awarded to the organization with the highest number of votes in each state, as well as Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico (52 prizes), and two $1,000 winners will be awarded to organizations in Canada. The runner-up for total number of votes during the Challenge will receive a $10,000 grant, and the grand prize winner will receive a $25,000 grant.
You can vote for the Grayson County Humane Society/SPCA by simply going to The Animal Rescue Site at www.theanimalrescuesite.com, hitting the “Click Here to Give - It's Free!” purple button, and then hitting the "vote now" button on the next page.
Only one vote per day is allowed per participant, but anyone can cast a vote and you can actually come back to vote again the next day. Vote tallies will be updated regularly and visitors to The Animal Rescue Site can check such tallies throughout the $100,000 Shelter Challenge.
By voting every day and by getting your friends to vote, we have a WONDERFUL opportunity to make a HUGE difference for the Grayson County Humane Society. The money received would be used to help special needs or injured pets or simply to save the life of a healthy, but homeless shelter pet. Whatever the money is used for, you can be certain that it will be for a very deserving pet in great need.
As this small shelter is run COMPLETELY by six part-time volunteers and is NOT supported by any type of city, state, or federal funding, they are ALWAYS in great need of money to continue to save the many lives that end up in their care. Winning $27,000 for this shelter would be like hitting a multi-million dollar lottery!!!
PLEASE pass this message on to your family, friends, and coworkers and encourage them to vote. We only have until December 14th, 2008 to get as many votes as possible, so time is of the essence.
Who We Are and Why We Need Your Help
The Grayson County Humane Society/SPCA works non-stop to find safe rescues or loving homes for
the adoptable animals that, for whatever unfortunate reason, end up at the animal shelter in Leitchfield, Kentucky.
We're comprised COMPLETELY of volunteers who donate our time, money, and resources. As the shelter has an
intake of almost 1,000 dogs and cats per year, we're almost always near maximum capacity. Because of such
conditions, we're constantly faced with an urgent need to move these wonderful pets to safety, in order to avoid the
need for euthanasia simply due to lack of space.
Some of the animals on this website are in foster care, but most are located at the shelter. Those at the shelter have a
limited amount of time to be rescued or adopted. If you're considering adding a cat or dog to your family, now's the
time to come and select your new best friend. We have many sweet, friendly, healthy animals who deserve more than
the life they've been dealt simply due to someone's irresponsibility. Please consider giving one of these precious
animals a home and a second chance at a happy life.
How You Can Help
Hands-On Help
As the Grayson County Humane Society/SPCA is comprised of only four main volunteers and two
occasional volunteers, we're always in need of extra hands to work on a wide variety of tasks. By being a part of our
"One Dollar One Hour One Month Campaign," if you can spare just one hour or one dollar per week or even just one hour or one dollar per month, it truly will make a HUGE difference to us and to our loving, but homeless animals. If you're interested in helping, please fill out the volunteer application online and one of our other volunteers will get back to you as soon as possible.
Below is just a brief list of some of the projects we'd LOVE to have your help with. Please feel free to contact us if
you'd like to help in other ways.
Bathe dogs
Clean cages and kennels
Drive animals to their vet appointments
Gather aluminum cans, old cell phones, and empty ink cartridges for recycling reimbursement
Help do the laundry
Help us prepare for spay and neuter clinic days
Help us transport animals to rescue organizations
Play with the dogs and cats
Socialize the dogs and cats
Walk dogs (perhaps even to the park and back)
Work on various fundraising events
Off-Site Help
If you don't live near the shelter, but you'd like to help our pets, as well as us, we can also use your help with the
following projects:
* Become a friend of our MySpace page for the
Grayson County Humane Society to keep up on our current needs and planned events
* Become a member of our Friends of Grayson County Humane Society Yahoo group to also keep up on our current needs and planned events
* Become a "Zootoo-er." Check out the Zootoo web site for details about how you can help raise money for the shelter of your choice simply by writing product reviews, photo reviews, submitting comments to stories, etc. You can also request free samples and donate them to the shelter. You can set up your Zootoo account by entering the Grayson County Humane Society's zip code of 42754.
* Donate your old cell phones and empty ink cartridges to us for recycling reimbursement
* Donate your Pepsi and Coke points, as well as your Purina weight circles and Fresh Step cat litter Paw Points, as we cash them in for items we can either use or auction off at fundraisers
* Help us transport animals to rescue organizations
* If you're in the market for 100% USA-made rawhides (or other various USA-made pet supplies including food, treats, supplements, and odor/stain removing products), consider placing an online order with US Bones.com. Simply select Grayson County Humane Society, KY as the "recipient organization" and 25% of the value of your order will be donated directly to us. If you're wondering if this is a good company to deal with, here's a testimonial from a Grayson supporter that recently (7/08) ordered from them, "I just received my order from USBones and I'm very happy with everything! It's not just for dogs; there are plenty of cat items available. I've had difficulty finding rawhides and other items made in the USA when shopping the local pet stores, so the dogs are very happy
that I found this site. I found the prices reasonable and the order was shipped promptly. They accept credit cards, paypal payments and also checks."
* Sponsor pets at the shelter (refer to the "Sponsor" section listed below for details)
* Spread the word about our shelter by passing along our web site link
* Use either the iSearchiGive or the GoodSearch web site to conduct your online searches and
specify the Grayson County Humane Society as the cause you iSearch or GoodSearch for. The more you search, the more
money we make. As both web sites are powered by Yahoo!, you still get great search results. It won't cost you anything
to use either site, but it will help to raise some much-needed and very-appreciated funds for us.
* Use the GoodShop site if you'd rather shop than
search. With more than 500 stores, if you specify the Grayson County Humane Society as the cause you GoodShop
for, the Society will receive a donated percentage of your purchase price. In that case, you end up giving two presents
with the purchase of one - a double bang for your buck!!
* Use the iGive site to shop online at yet another 700 stores. If new
members sign-up, choose the Grayson County Humane Society as their "cause," and make a purchase within 45 days
of joining, we'll receive an extra $5.00. Please use this referred friends link when/if you do join.
Click to join friendsofgraysoncohumanesoc
Monetary Donations
Not funded by the state or local government, most of the funding for this shelter comes directly out of
the pockets of the Grayson County Humane Society volunteers. Therefore, monetary donations in any amount are
always deeply appreciated. Even a single dollar is a blessing as it will actually buy four pounds of Science Diet
food.
You can Paypal donations by clicking on the "Donate Visa/Mastercard" button at the top of this page. You can also
mail checks to:
Grayson County Humane Society/SPCA
213 William Thomason Byway
Leitchfield, KY 42754
If you need a receipt, please just ask for one. Donations ARE tax deductible, as the Grayson County
Humane Society is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. If you note what you'd like your donation to be used for, we'll
make sure that ALL such directed donations are used for exactly what the giver intended it to be used for. If you'd like
to make a donation in honor of someone, a Grayson volunteer will also send an acknowledgement card to that person,
if you provide the necessary information.
If you'd like to help us pay off our outstanding vet bill, you can do so by calling your credit card information in directly
to the vet clinic we use for much of our medical care. Please ask that they apply your donation to the Grayson County
Humane Society's account, #4974. The clinic's contact information is as follows:
Animal Clinic of Glasgow (KY)
Phone: 270-651-2156
Item Wish List
As of December 1st, 2008, the shelter is in need of the following items:
- Canned kitten and cat food (loaf/pate ones without chunks/bits, but "smelly fish types" work best to entice finicky eaters - ones like 9 Lives Real Flakes of Tuna or actual canned tuna/salmon)
- "Smelly" canned dog food (to help entice finicky eaters)
- Small and large covered litter boxes (ours are falling apart!)
- 6" or smaller paper plates (for the cats' canned food)
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Laundry detergent (any brand)
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Non-ultra bleach
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Liquid dish soap (any brand)
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Triple antibiotic ointment
- Equine Fresh pine bedding (40 pound bags - used for cat litter)
- Puppy toys that are "bleachable" (please, NO cloth ones; tough latex chewy-type ones last the longest)
- Frontline and Revolution (used to treat for fleas, ticks, various worms, ear mites, and sarcoptic mange)
- Drontal, Safeguard, Ivomec, and Strongid (dewormers)
- Metal pails for the dogs' water
- Stainless steel bowls for food
- Collars and nylon leashes
- Small, hand-held vacuum (like a Dust Buster)
- A few plastic tubs to store items
- Wire crates (to replace some that the cats are living in)
- Carriers/Crates (used for the MANY transports that we drive - ours are now in a state of complete disrepair!)
- Kuranda beds (our dogs love these but we don't have enough for everyone and the ones we have are starting to fall apart; if you'd like to donate one, please click here).
- Doghouses (any insulated plastic kind that can be cleaned and sanitized easily)
- A replacement computer (our old Compaq keeps crashing)
Such items can be shipped to:
Grayson County Humane Society/SPCA
213 William Thomason Byway
Leitchfield, KY 42754
Adopt
If you see a pet here on our web site that you're interested in adopting, you can fill out an application online or you can email us at
dwhite@aggressiveonline.net or call 270-230-8839 to request that an adoption application be emailed or sent
via regular mail to you. We do allow out-of-state adoptions, but a home visit and references are required. You can
bring your completed application with you when you visit the shelter or you can submit it via email or regular mail.
All animals adopted from us will be altered before placement and will receive their vaccinations and worming. The
adoption fees listed below only serve to cover such expenses. We feel that these adoption fees are a nominal amount
to spend on a new lifetime friend and are much less than what a vet would normally charge for the services being
provided. If a new owner is unwilling to pay very much for an animal, it's likely they'd also be unwilling to pay for
proper care in the future - such as heartworm and flea/tick prevention, proper food, and vaccinations.
Adoption fees:
** Cats and Kittens $55 ** Adult Dogs $85 ** Puppies $100 **
Ask us about other low cost spay/neuter resources in our area.
Foster
Fortunately, a few of our puppies, dogs, and cats are safe in foster care. However, most of the these
fostered pets are located in the homes of the regular volunteers. They too are still in need of being adopted or rescued.
Each one that's finally adopted or rescued helps to free up critically-needed space in the volunteers' homes for the next
needy dogs and cats that will surely soon arrive at the shelter.
We're always in need of additional foster homes to take
these deserving animals into their care while they wait to be adopted or rescued. Please contact us either via email at
dwhite@aggressiveonline.net or via telephone at 270-230-8839 if
you'd like to open your heart and home to a foster pet. You can also fill out a volunteer foster application online and one of our other volunteers will get back to you as soon as possible.
Sponsor
Can't adopt or foster a Grayson pet? Then perhaps a sponsorship is the best way for you to help. For many people, the concept of sponsoring a shelter pet is a new one. Basically, it involves making a donation in any amount to help cover the vetting needs of the shelter pet of your choice. While not an absolute guarantee, sponsorships often make an animal more likely to be accepted into a rescue group.
If you would like to pay the full sponsorship fee for a cat or kitten, it costs $55, while adult dogs are $85, and puppies are $100. If you pay the full sponsorship for one of our unnamed recent arrivals, you can have the privilege of choosing a name for that special pet. Again though, danations in any amount are greatly appreciated.
Sponsorships can also be applied to our feral barn cat program. These feral cats - free roaming, unowned, and untamed domestic cats - are fully-vetted and free to barn owners who will agree to feed them.
Sponsorships can be paid with either of the methods listed above or you can make a monthly commitment of $20 to sponsor one of our pets by clicking on the button below. Please feel free to contact us if you'd like more information about sponsorships.
Rescue
Reputable rescue groups are always welcome to help us save our animals. One of our volunteers
recently described our current situation best when she said, "We can't continue to be low-kill if we're full. We're not
asking rescues to take dogs or cats that have issues or need assistance getting over life in the shelter or that don't get
along with other dogs, cats, and/or small children. We're asking them to take the no-big-problems dogs or cats, while
we continue to try to find the right home for the others."
If you can help rescue even one of the Grayson dogs or cats, please contact us ASAP either via email at
dwhite@aggressiveonline.net or via telephone at 270-230-8839. Rescues that are new to working with us would
need to submit a list of their vet references, rescue references, an outline of their adoption policies, and reason(s) why
they would ever euthanize a pet.
Rescuing from this shelter is a great deal on many levels. TRANSPORT IS USUALLY AVAILABLE
(often to Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and
sometimes even Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont) -- PLEASE JUST ASK!!!
Vetting costs are also relatively low and reimbursement is never asked for anything beyond what is expended for such
costs. Current vetting costs are approximately:
Cat neuter - $35
Cat spay - $40
Dog neuter - $45-$60
Dog spay - $50-$65
Rabies vaccine - $7
Puppy vaccines - $3
Cat and dog combo viral vaccines - $2.50
Bordetella vaccine - $5
HW, Lyme, and Erlichia test - $15 for all three, if done by the Grayson volunteers
FeLV/FIV test - $15 for both, if done by the Grayson volunteers
Health certificate - $12-$25, depending on the vet used
Everything possible is also done to minimize the spread of disease or illness at the shelter. Dogs are held in their run for
10 days after they arrive. If they appear to be healthy for those 10 days and after they receive their shots and wormer,
then they can go play in one of the three fenced-in fields while their kennel is being cleaned. Puppies DO NOT leave
their run or touch the ground ANYWHERE until they've had their entire series of puppy vaccines; they're also
wormed several times after they arrive. The volunteers use bleach foot baths and hand washing. They also have
different boots to wear in the puppy runs than in the rest of the facility and they use a combination of bleach sanitizing
days and trifectant sanitizing days.
We'll also test any animal you're interested in rescuing or adopting with other dogs, cats, kids, food - WHATEVER IT
TAKES to get the information you need to decide to save them. We''ll ALWAYS go the extra mile to help these
precious furbabes. AGAIN - PLEASE JUST ASK!!!
How To Contact Us
Phone: 270-230-8839
email:
dwhite@aggressiveonline.net
Shelter Location: 213 William Thomason Byway, Leitchfield, KY 42754
Shelter Hours: Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 7:00AM to 1:00PM (Central Time
Zone)
Please contact us for an appointment if these times aren't suited to your schedule. If you need
directions to the shelter, please call us at 270-230-8839.
Click here for a map of the Grayson County Humane Society
Please come and visit us and the many wonderful pets we have.
We think you'll be VERY glad you did!
Grayson County Humane Society/SPCA
Leitchfield, KY 42754
The work we do is dedicated to the the memory of our furry friends that perished in a
fire at the shelter on March 19, 2004.
Our hearts break for each of these lost pets. Each had its own story; each had its own
personality.
Not a day goes by when we do not think of each of you.
"What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness...."
Dogs and Puppies
** Allie * Annie * Babs * Bonnie * Boopsie * Curly * Desdemona * Gandolf * Hamlet * Honey
* Hope * Houston * Kate * Larry * Laverne * Lear * Luke * Martina * McBeath * Ophelia * Paulie * Shemp *
Shirley * Spearmint * Tarantino * Teaberry * Wilma * Webster **
Cats and Kittens
** Amidala * Boots * Campbell * Delbert * Dickory * Edgar * Frisco * Julep * Margo * Maria
* Missy * Napoleon * Oliver * Onyx * Patches * Rayetta * Roberta * Rosebud * Stevie * Sunshine * Twilight *
Vinnie **
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