March Paw Prints

Happy St. Patrick's Day!
For each petal on the shamrock, this brings a wish your way: Good health, good luck, and happiness for today and every day.” --Irish blessing.
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General DonationHello, my name is Harley and here is my story.  Ever since I can remember I lived outside.  Born to a female cat with no place to call home.  We wandered around for a while until my mom had another litter of kittens and then I ended up by myself.  I lived in a park with other cats.  We were always scrounging for something to fill our bellies.  One day a kind man started leaving food and water by his garage.  Boy was that nice!
One day I was attacked by another animal and my rear leg was wounded pretty bad.  I made it to the kind man’s house.  He noticed that I was wounded and put me in a carrier in his car.  He thought my leg was broken.  At this point I did not put up much of a fuss as I could not use my rear leg at all.  We went for a drive and ended up at the Humane Society of Oldham County were the kind man talked about me and my situation with a nice lady. 
After a trip to the vet where I got an x-ray, which showed that my leg was not broken, I ended up back at the Humane Society of Oldham County with the nice lady.  She placed me in a warm cage with food, water, and a nice comfy bed. 
The next day the nice lady put me in a carrier, and I was in another car where we went on another ride.  I was not there but a few minutes when I received some shots. OUCH!  I do not remember much after that.  When I woke up, I was back in my warm cage on my comfy bed, but I was missing something.  My rear leg was gone.  Then I remembered hearing talk about it being very infected and he needed to have it amputated.  At the time I did not know what that meant, I do now.
Three weeks later I had my staples removed and am getting my vaccines updated.  The nice lady said I was not going back to the park but we were going to find me a forever home.  I am not really sure what that is but since I have been here I have had 3 meals a day, pain meds to keep me comfortable, and a comfy bed to take naps on so I don’t think it will be anything bad.
This is Harley’s story.  There are a lot more animals that need help like Harley.  The Humane Society of Oldham County can help more animals like Harley with support from you.  There are several ways that you can help.  We need volunteers to help care for and socialize our in house dogs and cats, helping at the front desk by answering phones, posting pets on our adoption pages and social media, and by helping at our spay/neuter clinics are just to name a few. Do you have a couple hours a week you can spare to come and help support HSOC.  Not only will you find it rewarding, but the pets will love it too. 
If you would like to give a donation to help cover the cost of Harley's medical care and others like him please click the link and follow the prompts.  General Donation

Humane Society Oldham County Wish List for March
We are looking for volunteers to come help out at our Spay/Neuter Clinics.  No training required.  If you are interested in learning more, please come to our Volunteer Orientation on March 25, 1pm at 2601 Interior Way, off Commerce Parkway. Fill out our volunteer application here. Volunteer
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