Some homeless animals can’t go to the Shelter. They weren’t lucky enough to ever be a pet. Some kittens, born to abandoned cats, never learned to trust humans. When kittens and cats like these end up in a shelter, they end up being euthanized.
But there’s an alternative. These cats, once they’re spayed or neutered and vaccinated, can live out their lives outdoors. It isn’t as easy a life as a pet has, but it’s a life these cats understand and want. It isn’t a bad life if people help them.
People around Grant County feed these less lucky cats. These kind, committed people go out in all types of weather, every day, with food for the cats. That food gets expensive. The GCFOS tries to help them by supplying cat food when the group can.
The group can help when people, like you, help. One donation that helps homeless animals, almost the moment it’s given, is cat food. Please bring a bag or more to the Shelter, 218 Barnes Road, Williamstown, KY 41097, or have some sent there via Amazon or Chewy.
If you want to help more than just once, more than for just a few meals, a monthly shipment will allow cats to eat regularly, through the hardest of times.
The Shelter is safe and dry and the animals are fed. Yet, these animals were pets. Most of them were family members. Most of them lived to be petted, to play outdoors, to be close to a person. They grieve every day for everything, and everyone that they’ve lost.
Visitors help. The dogs are ecstatic when people take them for walks. The cats purr with joy when someone holds them. Visitors make the waiting bearable. Meeting new people lets these dejected pets show hope, friendliness, and their real, lovable personalities to other visitors, the ones who may be able to adopt them.
Please consider spending a few hours at the Shelter each week.
Until all the people are good to their pets, homeless pets will need help. Often the needs are sudden and great, like when a discarded puppy runs in front of a car, or a kitten is tossed from the window of a moving car. Other times an animal has suffered for a very long time, for years even. That pet may need care for quite a while before he moves on to a real home.
Regular, reliable donations enable the GCFOS and the Shelter to know that the care can be there. For example, Marley needed months of help, but that gave him the life he’d missed.
Injuries happen quickly. Abuse can take a long time. In either case, the wounded pets need a safe place to recuperate. That shouldn’t be a shelter cage. Foster owners give suffering pets comfort and the motivation to get better. These people make the difference between a pet seeing a reason to live or giving up.
Join the Kroger Community Rewards Program, identifying the Grant County Friends of the Shelter as the charity you want Kroger to help. It’s a VERY easy way to help unloved animals each time you shop at any Kroger or Ruler store. It costs you absolutely nothing, but the corporation gives a little to help the animals with each purchase you make.
Please take a few minutes and sign up to help the Grant County Friends of the Shelter, organization AV715, at www.kroger.com/i/community/community-rewards.
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved on stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” — Pericles
“You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” – John Bunyan
“Who feeds a hungry animal feeds his own soul.” – Charlie Chaplin
The men quoted above thought deeply and came to conclusions about what sort of impact matters. Spirit, a pup who ended up at the Grant County Animal Shelter, would have been better off if he’d started life with one of them.
Instead, Spirit, pictured above, was born at the home of a very different sort of person. When the puppy was just eight weeks old, the man Spirit lived with began shooting. Spirit trembled and tried to hide against the cold, bare ground. The frightened puppy heard her brothers and sisters cry out, one by one, as the bullets killed them. Then it was Spirit’s turn. She, too, must have yelped as the cartridge entered her tiny body.
As Spirit’s eyes closed, other men, these wearing uniforms, arrived. They made the killing stop. Then they discovered that Spirit was still alive and carried her to the shelter.
Spirit needed a special kind of rescue. She needed help from the Grant County Friends of the Shelter. Spirit needed veterinary care for her bullet wounds. Then she needed foster care, until her angry owner agreed to relinquish Spirit, his property. Luckily for Spirit, the funds were there to save her.
Those funds were there because people that Spirit would never meet realized that animals like Spirit needed help. Those people donated funds to help Grant County’s unloved, unappreciated, unwanted, unsheltered and/or unfed animals.
Unfortunately, other animals need help, too. The Grant County Friends of the Shelter, a 501(c)(3) corporation, exists to help those animals. However, the organization needs contributions from caring, compassionate people to continue meeting the ongoing needs of animals like Spirit.
That kindness will have a lasting impact. John Ware understood. He said, “Long after I’m gone it will become abundantly clear that I left my heart behind.”
Founded in 2002, the Grant County Friends of the Shelter is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that strives to find a home for all the animals in the Grant County Animal Shelter.
Founded in 2002, the Grant County Friends of the Shelter is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that strives to find a home for all the animals in the Grant County Animal Shelter.
Dramatic cases of animal injury and recovery are common at the Grant County Friends of the Animal Shelter and Castle is no exception. We encourage you to read Castle’s story and learn more about how you can help this resilient cat’s recovery efforts.
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When a law enforcement officer asks for help from the shelter staff, it can be very serious. Situations don’t get much more serious than Marley’s was. Read Marley’s story and learn more about how you can help this sweet dog’s recovery efforts.
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Thanks to our donations, the shelter was able to construct a unique outdoor play area where shelter cats can freely jump and climb a cat post or two, catch a few rays, and socialize with other cats and people.
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Thanks to our donations, the shelter was able to construct a unique outdoor play area where shelter cats can freely jump and climb a cat post or two, catch a few rays, and socialize with other cats and people.