This was written by Beth, one of our few shelter volunteers.  Please - we are stretched to the breaking point.  We need rescues, and volunteers.  Can you help?  Please crosspost this.

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Please, please consider rescuing these pets.
www.graysoncountyhu manesociety. 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.petfinde r.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.graysoncountyhu manesociety. petfinder. org
www.graysonhumane. org
http://pets. groups.yahoo. com/group/ friendsofgrayson cohumanesoc/