"There are those who at our fundraisers or adoption events walk by and say “Leitchfield Animal Shelter, kill them all!”

JBird

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Please, please consider rescuing these pets.
www.graysoncountyhumanesociety.petfinder.org
www.graysonhumane.org

Tonight, after all that we did today to clean the shelter and care for the pets, I went back to the shelter to do night medications. It is something that is done everyday. It happens seven nights a week. There are only volunteers to clean the shelter. There are only a few in the area who care about what happens to the pets here. There are those who at our fundraisers or adoption events walk by and say “Leitchfield Animal Shelter, kill them all!”
After all the posting and transporting and treating and vetting and cleaning and walking and bleaching and feeding, it’s not enough. I felt a little ill physically at the end of my day. I sat down to try to calm my queasy stomach and I thought since I’m here someone should at least get something special out of the time.
JBird
http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=11320603
has been moved to a cage in the hall. She has been here more than a year and I hate for her to be stuck in a single cube when we get full. So she has a slightly larger crate in the hall. She has been here so long that often when you open her cage she doesn’t even come out. She just lays in it inviting you to pet her. Tonight I sat on the floor and she trilled, climed over her door and pulled herself right up into my lap. She was ecstatic. She kissed me. She rolled in my lap. She sharpened her claws on my jeans and buried her head in my underarm and curled her tail around her purring. She would not go away. When my phone rang and it was my family asking when I was coming home, she did not want to get up and I had to put her back in her cage.
For those that say, “at least they are cared for while they are with you” “at least they get medical care” “at least they are treated special” I say to you ‘it is not enough’.
JBird deserves so much more than just to be kept from death. She deserves more than to have help in healing her wounds. She deserves the love and attention she craves. As I sat in the floor and held her, Digby of the fabulous five was in the top cage crying and pressing his head against the bars and reaching out between the bars begging for someone to hold him too. Who would do that? There are no extra volunteers at night or any other time. There are enough to get the job of cleaning and feeding done. There is no one to hand out love.
I walked most of the dogs in the dark. The Rock hugged me and kissed me and begged me to stay in his run with him. I had to go. There were 40 more dogs waiting for that short time on leash when someone is petting them and that short romp in the field where they can run and stretch.

PLEASE, if you rescue, consider rescuing our pets. We do not have a 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.
Our shelter pets have had their wounds treated. Their treatable or manageable health conditions are addressed. They are spayed/neutered. They have been our charges for a long time. We can tell you about them. They have already been treated for whatever may have ailed them. What they will never have with us is a chance at finding that someone. Some, sadly, have spent much more of their lives here than they have ever spent anywhere else.
We are desperate for rescue. 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. They are our friends.

JBird does not need much. Her only problem is a tiny patch of thin skin on her heel. Should she never get a home because she may play too much and that heel may bleed a little?

Our pets need adopters or rescue. Our area does not have adopters.
Please consider offering a safe place for any one of them today.

Please consider adopting or rescuing a shelter pet from
Grayson County Humane Society
213 Wm Thomason Byway
Leitcfield, KY 42754
270-230-8839
www.graysoncountyhumanesociety.petfinder.org
www.graysonhumane.org
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/friendsofgraysoncohumanesoc/

We're a VERY rescue-friendly shelter!

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!!!


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