As longtime supporters of the Kentucky Humane Society, Oxmoor Auto Group is sponsoring the care of 52 adoptable animals in 2026. Their gift will help provide food, shelter, spay/neuter surgeries, medical care and behavior assistance to the pets in our care while they search for places to call home. This collaborative partnership, now stronger than […]
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Many people enjoy fireworks over the Fourth of July holiday, but fireworks can be terrifying for pets—causing many animals to escape their homes or yards and become lost. Animal shelters across the country often report an increase in strays following the holiday. Kentucky Humane Society offers pet guardians the below guidelines to help keep their pets safe
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Open Your Heart and Home to Animals in Need Each year, thousands of KHS pets spend time in loving foster homes temporarily healing, growing or decompressing. These foster homes expand our shelter walls exponentially, and you can play a part by joining our foster network. While fostering shelter pets may seem daunting, most of our foster caregivers work full time jobs
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Help Us Help Them Animal welfare will break your heart and reshape it every single day. Our team knows this well and despite it all, they continue to show up for the animals who depend on them. This season has brought unprecedented need to the Kentucky Humane Society. Every space in our shelter, from treatment wards to the
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Donate to Help Injured Puppies like Woody Woody, a two-month-old puppy, arrived at KHS earlier today scared and in desperate need of help. One of her rear legs is severely broken and causing her untold amounts of pain. How she came to be in this condition is unknown but we’ll stick by her side regardless. X-rays revealed that Woody’s
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A Heartbreaking Update on Make It Kate There’s no easy way to say this. Kate peacefully passed away at our Willow Hope Farm on Friday afternoon surrounded by staff and volunteers who loved her. What was supposed to be a routine vet visit to address Kate’s plateaued weight and eyesight quickly progressed when our veterinarian took ultrasounds
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Kittens like Kitkat Need You This kitten was thrown away. Literally. At just one month old, Kitkat was found wrapped in a plastic bag in a dumpster, discarded as if his life didn’t matter. When the Good Samaritan who found him told us the story, our hearts broke, but we sprang into action and promised Kitkat “never
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The Kentucky Humane Society is grateful to ADP for sponsoring our Volunteer of the Month program in 2025-2026. Thanks to their generous support, we can celebrate the incredible volunteers who give their time and hearts to help shelter animals. Each month, we’ll shine a spotlight on one of our dedicated volunteers their time to better the lives
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Bilateral Eye Removal Saves JJ’s Life Kitten season always brings a slew of babies in need to the Kentucky Humane Society, but JJ is different. At just one month old and weighing less than a pound, she had to undergo an emergency double eye enucleation when both of her eyes ruptured due to untreated infections. Though surgery was risky because
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Excessive heat can be dangerous not only for people, but for animals as well. The Kentucky Humane Society wants to remind pet parents that extreme heat can be very hazardous to pets. Every year, companion animals suffer and die when their owners leave them in a parked car while they run errands. Temperatures inside cars can
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