It's Vegas, baby! And on Saturday, June 2, Scott County Humane Society is bringing Las Vegas to the beautiful Marriott Griffin Gate in Lexington, Kentucky.
This annual Fur Ball gala features Vegas-style gaming and entertainment, beautiful showgirls, live music by 17-piece big band The MetroGnomes, a special appearance by "Elvis", and a "wedding chapel". Dinner, drinks, dancing and fun in the ballroom! 50/50 raffle, more raffles and gaming winners circle prizes! Silent and live auctions featuring vacation get-a-ways, luxurious items for him, her and your furry friend, jewelry, artwork and more.
And remember, what happens in Vegas - stays in Vegas! All proceeds benefit Scott County Humane Society. For more information on this gala evening, email
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Viva Paws Vegas begins at 5:30PM. Tickets are $125 per person. Buy your tickets now for the hottest event in Kentucky this year! Each ticket also includes complimentary drink ticket and $25 play money. Click below to make a secure online payment. To reserve a table for eight, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for availability.
Click here to reserve a room at Marriott Griffin Gate for June 2 for a special price of $118.
Thank you to our "Viva Paws Vegas" 2012 Fur Ball Sponsors!
And Danny and Karen Strippelhoff
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Our "Luv 'em Fix'em Keep 'em" program has launched! Through generous grant funding from the ASPCA ®, this program provides subsidized spay/neuter funding to low-income homes in Scott County needing financial assistance in spaying/neutering their domestic cat or dog.
Cats can be spayed/neutered for just $10. Dogs can be spayed/neutered for just $24. Rabies vaccination is an additional, discounted cost. Thank you to these partnering clinics in the" Luv 'em Fix 'em Keep 'em" program: Central Kentucky Veterinary Center, Locust Trace Veterinary Clinic, HOPE Low-Cost Clinic, and Dr. Cleveland. For more information or to get a voucher today, call 502-863-3279 or visit the SCHS Center at 751 Slone Drive, Suite 14, Georgetown, KY 40324. The Center is open Monday through Friday, 10AM to 6PM, and Saturday from 11AM to 3PM
Can't foster or adopt but want to paw-sitively impact a homeless pet's life? Become a sponsor to a cat or dog in 
our care this month with a $25 sponsorship. Your donation will help provide a Scott County Humane Society homeless cat or dog with veterinary care and food while a loving, forever home is sought through our adoption programs. To select a pet you would like to sponsor as a gift for that special person in your life, click here to browse our adoptable pets, or visit the Scott County Humane Society Center (Monday to Friday 10-6, Saturday 11-3). Click on "Donate" To make a secure online payment to Scott County Humane Society:
Kroger Gift Cards Are Great Gifts to Help Homeless Pets!
Scott County Humane Society receives donations each time money is loaded on your card at the Kroger's checkout lane. Gift cards can be used at any Krogers!
The Scott County Humane Society Kroger Gift Card Program is growing, and on average each month the gift cards help to save and spay/neuter 10 cats and dogs. Let your purchase power help to save more homeless pets lives through spay/neuter. With so many unwanted pets, spay and neuter will help to reduce overpopulation of cats and dogs in Scott County and spare many more from euthanasia or a life of starvation, abandonment or cruelty.
The Chris Harrison Memorial Fund aids in the treatment of sick and injured animals in Scott County, KY. Our friend Chris, who unexpectedly passed away January 8, 2012, was an active SCHS volunteer and 
had hoped to see a funding established for sick and injured animals who needed veterinary care. Chris volunteered each Sunday at the SCHS Center cleaning, organizing and giving the foster cats there love. She also was our bookkeeper, helped with fundraisers, grantwriting, Kind Kids, fostered cats, and was a dear, beloved friend to many of us. Chris touched many lives in her 53 years, and she made the world a better place for all those in it with her compassion and giving.
Please click on the DONATE button and give whatever you can to support this special fund.
Scott County Humane Society named a Finalist in TOYOTA’S 2012 100 CARS FOR GOOD PROGRAM (May 1, 2012)
Georgetown-based Scott County Humane Society announces that it has been selected as one of 500 nonprofit finalists in Toyota’s 100 Cars for Good program, a major philanthropic initiative in which the automaker is giving 100 cars to 100 vehicles over the course of 100 days. Scott County Humane Society was selected as a finalist from more than 4,000 applications nationwide.
Each day, beginning May 14, 2012, 100 Cars for Good will profile five finalists at www.100carsforgood.com. Individual members of the public will be able to vote for which ever nonprofit they think can do the most good with a new vehicle. The nonprofit with the most votes at the end of each day will win one of six Toyota models. Runners-up will each receive a $1,000 cash grant from Toyota.
Scott County Humane Society will be up for consideration on August 8, 2012.
“Everyone at Scott County Humane Society is overjoyed to have been selected as a finalist for the 2012 100 Cars for Good program,” said Julia Meister-Musgrave, Development Specialist of Scott County Humane Society. “We’re grateful for this incredible opportunity to showcase our mission to ensure humane care and conditions for companion animals through spay/neuter, humane awareness education, and responsible pet adoption and ownership and hopefully win a car to help us increase our impact in Scott County. We hope everyone will help us spread the word now and, of course, will make time to visit www.100carsforgood.com on Wednesday, August 8 to vote for us. A new vehicle would really be a game changer for our ability to have a greater impact in saving lives through our “Luv ‘em Fix ‘em Keep ‘em” foster-adoption, rescue, spay and neuter and pet ownership education services”
“At Toyota, we appreciate what a significant impact a new car can have for nonprofits nationwide,” noted Michael Rouse, vice president of philanthropy for Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. “Toyota has donated more than half a billion dollars to nonprofits across the U.S. over the past 20 years, and 100 Cars for Good allows us to expand that commitment to local communities in important new ways. The 500 finalists are an extraordinary group, and we look forward to the public learning more about them.”
100 Cars for Good is the first initiative to directly engage the public to determine how Toyota’s philanthropic donations are awarded.
For more information on Scott County Humane Society and its efforts to win one of Toyota’s 100 Cars for Good, please visit Scott County Humane Society’s website at www.sc4paws.org. You can also follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ScottCountyHumaneSocietyForPetsSake or Twitter at schspaws. For complete information on 100 Cars for Good and profiles of all 500 finalists, please visit ww.100carsforgood.com.
Local residents are encouraged to support Scott County Humane Society and their quest for a new Toyota Sienna. If Scott County Humane Society receives the most votes and is awarded the vehicle, it will be used to facilitate animal rescue, foster and adoption programs, spay/neuter outreach, and educational services provided the public by Scott County Humane Society.
A six-year, 100,000-mile powertrain warranty will also be provided for each vehicle, compliments of Toyota Financial Services.
ASPCA® supports Mega Match-a-thon Adoption Event in Georgetown (January 28, 2012)
Scott County Humane Society is one of 54 animal rescue organizations in the country to receive grant funding to participate in the inaugural ASPCA® Mega Match-a-thon national pet adoption event this spring.
The humane society will host its adoption event March 31 and April 1 at Garth Elementary in Georgetown.
Among the other groups who received a share of the nearly $500,000 grant were the Humane Society of South Mississippi, Wisconsin Humane Society, Sacramento SPCA, Asheville Humane Society and The Animal Foundation.
Scott County's portion of that grant -- $7,800 -- will be used to pay for spay/neuter surgeries, pet tags, collars, tents and event advertising.
The event will be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. March 31 and noon to 6 p.m. April 1. On Friday, the humane society will host a Happy Tail Parade 6 p.m. on Main Street to kick off the adoption weekend.
"In coalition with other animal welfare and rescue organizations who will be at this event, our goal is to find forever homes for 150 cats and dogs that weekend, said Julia Meister-Musgrave, SCHS development and fundraising specialist, and Mega Match-a-thon chairwoman. "We are excited to represent Kentucky in this event and to spotlight the city of Georgetown."
Ed Sayres, ASPCA® president and chief executive officer, said he hoped the cooperation between animal welfare groups would translate to plenty of adoptions.
“We hope the grant funding will help these rescue organizations – in collaboration with other groups in their community – save a record number of lives during the ASPCA®'s Mega Match-a-thon event,” said ASPCA® President & CEO Ed Sayres. “If we all work together, we can find loving homes for the many homeless animals in shelters across the country.”
SCHS is currently looking for volunteers, sponsors and local vendors to set up at the event. For more information, call Meister-Musgrave at (502) 863-3279 or visit www.sc4paws.org.
mission to find homes for animals in need and provide animal education for residents of Scott County and surrounding areas. We are grateful for all of our volunteers and sponsors, including:
