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WELCOME TO S.C.A.R.S.!
Second Chance Animal Refuge Society
www.scarsusa.com contact@scarsusa.com
(785)
256-2976
SCARS
is a no-kill, non-profit, 501(c)(3) animal rescue or-ganization, located on
50 fenced-in acres with two ponds and large, grassy fields where more than
50 dogs roam free. We are constantly
in need of contributions from friends like you to maintain the dogs’ well
being - food, routine vet-erinary care, spaying and neutering, as well as
unexpected emergencies. Our
sanctuary also welcomes volunteers to assist and play with the dogs. Our mission is to provide a home for
abused and abandoned dogs. (Please
visit our webpage for dogs awaiting adoption.) Aided by our wonderful webmaster and
working in concert with other rescue organizations, we placed over 50 dogs
this year into loving homes. These
lucky ones are featured on our web-page as “Success Stories.” Other dogs will have a perm-anent home
with us. Many have health problems, some
are disabled, others too old to be relocated. For some, SCARS is the only home they can
remember. They will live out their
remaining years with us in their fields and ponds.
Thank
you to the National Humane Society in Delaware for their continued support and
encouragement.
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Our Heroes
  
Recently retired veterinarian and friend
Dr. Doug Jernigan with Maureen
Webmaster Wayne
with wife Julie
President of the National Humane Society Humane Society, with
his children, visiting SCARS
A sincere thank you to South
Topeka WalMart for their generous donations of food and to
members of the community who adopt our dogs and support our cause.
“thanks for
helping”
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“Dogs are blameless, devoid of calculation,
neither blessed nor cursed with human motives. They can’t really be held responsible for
what they do. But we can.”
(Jon Katz, The
Dogs of Bedlam Farm)
We
at SCARS have had a busy year fulfilling our
respon-sibilities to the many abused and abandoned dogs who have come our
way. Sheeba,
a beautiful Anatolian Shep-herd, is one our largest and most photogenic
dogs. When we found her she was in very sorry circumstances, but
we could see how gentle and forgiving she was.
Cutting the wire…
Soon she was on her way to
SCARS…
and the welcoming committee.
“Hi. You
must be the new kid. We’ve been here
a while so we’ll show you the ropes.
There aren’t many rules - just be nice to the other dogs and, when
Terry speaks, you listen. We have a
lot of fun every day.”
“You can swim in the pond,
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or crash on the couch.”
“You can deliver messages,
or play King of the Hill.”
“Some of us take naps with
Terry,
or
take long walks.”
“But we all come in at
dinnertime.”
“Maureen
works very hard to find us new homes, but they have to be really
special. When she is not at work she
is always on the computer or phone, and if she hears from someone who wants
us they have to answer a lot of questions and have a follow up visit. If things don’t work out we come right
back to SCARS. She won’t ever let us
be abandoned again.”
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