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DEDICATED ORNAMENTS & DECORATIONS
We've dedicated over 24 ornaments to non-profit organizations as part of our 2022-2023 initiative.
Each non-profit will receive $5 from the sale of each of their dedicated pieces.
Learn more about these organizations and other ways you can help support them.
Use the link provided with the logo or go directly to their website from your browser.
All of the listed non-profits also have active social media accounts. Please follow them for regular updates.
THE KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY
Founded in 1884, the KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY (KHS) is Kentucky's longest serving animal welfare organization and the state's largest pet adoption agency, with two main facilities in Louisville for dog and cat adoptions, as well as a site dedicated to rescue, rehab and rehoming for horses. The KHS also provides programs and events designed to strengthen the bond between people and their pets and to promote and encourage community education about the protection and welfare of companion animals.
Ethan, a Presa Canario Spanish Mastiff, was left for dead, skin and bones, laid out on a towel in the parking lot of a KHS facility, in critical condition from extreme abuse and neglect. Through the extensive nurturing and rehab provided by the KHS, including relearning to walk and round-the-clock gentle feeding, Ethan flourished, a prime example of what animal rescue is capable of achieving. Ethan has been proclaimed "Ambassador of Compassion," serving as an advocate for other rescue dogs, bringing awareness to the dire need for more empathy and stronger animal welfare and protection laws.
Our *ETHAN* ornament, dedicated to the KHS, appears as a hanging ornament, decked out for the holidays or majestic with a brown leather stitched collar and velvet ribbon, as well as standing strong and tall atop a pedestal of cinnamon sticks, a proud display of the power of animal rescue. (Some of our original *Ethan* ornaments have cropped tails. Sorry Ethan. We fixed that!)
*ETHAN*
KY HOPEFUL PAWS RESCUE
When a group of dog lovers embarked on founding KY HOPEFUL PAWS RESCUE in 2020, the focus was to provide rescue and foster care for a growing number of unwanted and neglected small breed dogs in Kentucky and find them loving forever homes. Since their inception, KY Hopeful Paws has expanded to provide rescue and foster for dogs of any size, as well as for cats, in order to help address the growing number of stray and abandoned animals and Kentucky's over-populated shelters. In 2022, KY Hopeful Paws provided a positive outcome for 586 rescued dogs and their adoptive families. They regularly receive local emergency and critical intakes from Guardians of Rescue (www.guardiansofrescue.org), a non-profit animal organization that provides emergency rescue relief across the country and in the United Kingdom for extreme cases of animal-related atrocities.
KY Hopeful Paws pets are in foster care in locations across the state of Kentucky, vetted and fully assessed, ready to be picked up and pampered by a new, loving forever family.
*MURPHY BROWN*, our strutting, little dachshund, is helping to provide the FYI on the importance of animal rescue, spay and neutering and the urgent need to report cases of abuse and neglect and prevent countless animals from suffering. Small, yes, but *MURPHY BROWN*, dedicated to KY Hopeful Paws Rescue for their determination to make a difference through their cause, hopes to help in the mighty approach needed to be a rescue lifeline for so many dogs - and cats - no matter what their size.
*MURPHY BROWN*
LUCKY CAT CAFE & LOUNGE
LUCKY CAT CAFE & LOUNGE is the only non-profit cat cafe in Kentucky. Located in a century-old house in the heart of a historical neighborhood, it's a notable Louisville landmark with a baby blue exterior and brightly-painted mural depicting two cats and beckoning visitors by advising them that "time spent with cats is never wasted." Point proven: since they opened their doors four years ago, Lucky Cat Café has helped over 500 cats from local rescues find their forever homes.
Founded in 2018 by Karla Spencer and Gail Luttrell, who both grew up with cats and share a passion to improve the welfare of felines, Lucky Cat Café works with six of the area's rescue organizations that provide them with available adoptable adult, special needs, senior cats and kittens. Visitors can meet and mingle with anywhere from 12 to 15 rescued felines, all spayed/neutered, vetted, micro-chipped and ready to show off and share their affection.
Lucky Cat Café relies on donations generated mainly from the visitors who come in for some feline attention and purring affection with the resident cats. Social gatherings are encouraged (reservations required) that might include an afternoon coffee date, a small birthday party or as a treat to get some feel-good kitty therapy.
*MISS KITTY* is dedicated to Lucky Cat Café & Lounge for providing this purr-fect opportunity to the community for people and felines, and for helping so many cats that might have been overlooked in a shelter get their lucky break to shine in the spotlight. *MISS KITTY* comes white-whiskered in well-fed form and ready for years of love.
Also available at the Lucky Cat Cafe & Lounge's gift shop.
*MISS KITTY*
MULLIGANS LIVING KIDNEY DONORS
Founded in 2012 in Louisville, MULLIGANS LIVING KIDNEY DONORS (MLKD) is a support group designed to share information and experiences with those who want to learn more about living organ donation - whether individuals with end stage renal disease who are seeking or will be seeking an organ donation or those interested in becoming a living kidney donor.
When LeighAnn Saylor's husband Mike needed a kidney transplant in 2011 at the age of 44, Tim Clark, a high school football team mate, heard about it and asked to be tested to see if he'd qualify as a living kidney donor. Tim turned out to be a match and a successful kidney transplant was performed.
The life-changing bond and experience led LeighAnn, Mike and Tim to create MLKD and make it their mission to continue learning as much as they could about live organ donation and share that knowledge with others. Since Mike's transplant, MLKD has provided information and moral support to 80 other living kidney recipients and their donors. Their motto, "Share your spare" has become their way of conveying that healthy individuals can choose live kidney donation to help someone in need.
At their regular monthly meetings, MLKD helps to address the concerns of each individual in attendance, sharing experience and knowledge about end stage kidney disease, dialysis, organ donation, transplant and post-transplant care, as well as contact information for medical facilities across the nation.
Our *LUCKY SHAMROCK* is a shout-out to MLKD and the donors, who, through organ donation, choose to give the gift of life - and gift of living that life - to an individual in need of a kidney transplant. *LUCKY SHAMROCK* is actually two shamrocks - one *LUCKY SHAMROCK* and a spare to share.
To learn more about Mulligans Living Kidney Donors go to their Facebook page
or contact them at MULLIGANSLKD@gmail.com.
*LUCKY
SHAMROCK*
OLD FRIENDS EQUINE
After 25 years as film critic for the Boston Globe, Michael Blowen and his wife, award-winning Globe columnist Diane White, took a company buy-out and moved to Kentucky to begin a venture into the world of all things equine. Sharing a keen interest in the effort to provide quality aftercare for retired thoroughbred horses, the couple founded OLD FRIENDS EQUINE in 2003 starting with a leased paddock and one horse. Now, 20 years later, with the help of their dedicated staff, volunteers, supporters and donors, Old Friends is home to over 240 retired horses, with a sprawling 236-acre site in Georgetown, KY, and three satellite locations, including one in Japan.
Proving it's horsepower, not just the thrill of the race, tours at their facilities have taken off, providing thousands of visitors every year with the experience of meeting, or in some cases, being reacquainted, with these kind, intelligent and noble creatures, each one's personality as unique as its once-prominent name. Old Friends is not only a horse sanctuary, providing equine residents with pampered care and dignified retirement, but it's also a living history museum of horse racing. Among their retirees, Hall of Famer Silver Charm came to live at Old Friends in 2014 and is currently the oldest living Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner at 29 years of age.
Little Silver Charm, a miniature horse, was rescued from a life of abuse and neglect and given a home at Old Friends in 2003, years before champion Silver Charm made it his retirement home. While smaller in stature than the mighty thoroughbred he was named after, Little Silver Charm proved to be hands-down big on personality, quickly leading the team as the organization's official spokes-horse and the subject of A Charmed Life, a book that provides his perspective on life in the pasture and the many encounters he has with famous personalities, both horses and people.
*CINNAMON WITH A LITTLE SILVER CHARM* is dedicated to Old Friends Equine and their amazing team for ensuring that the spotlight continues to shine on these magnificent horses long after the race has been run.
Also available at their Georgetown gift store.
*CINNAMON WIITH
A LITTLE SILVER CHARM*
ORPHANED WILDLIFE CENTER
To say Susan Kowalczik knows bears is an understatement. Growing up as the daughter of Albert Rix, a world-renowned authority on the care, breeding and training of bears, Susan has spent her entire life interacting with the species, as well as with many other animals.
As a licensed wildlife rehabilitator since 1996, Susan applies her experience and knowledge to the nurturing care and natural environment that she, along with her husband Jim, also a licensed wildlife rehabilitator, provide for all of the animals at ORPHANED WILDLIFE CENTER in Otisville, NY.
Since the center became an official rescue site in 2015, the couple has helped rehabilitate and release hundreds of their injured and orphaned intakes, ranging from squirrels, foxes, groundhogs, opossums, bunnies and bears (oh my!), most of them disabled or displaced due to human interference.
Jimbo, a 1500-pound Kodiak bear, taken in by the center as a 4-month-old orphan and unable to be returned to his habitat due to injuries, shared an amazing life with Susan and Jim, with whom he had an incredible bond. The unique relationship between Jim and Jimbo was captured in pictures, videos and social media posts by the center's administrator, Kerry Clair, up until Jimbo passed away from liver cancer in 2018 at the age of 23.
Inspired by the Orphaned Wildlife Center and the work they do to save and protect so many vulnerable animals, sharing their experiences as they provide education and conservation through their wildlife rescue, *JIMBO* is dedicated to the organization in honor of the biggest, most magnificent and loving beast ever to live among their bear pack.
*JIMBO*
PROUD PUPS RESCUE
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Our little *RITA* ornament is dedicated to PROUD PUPS RESCUE for their dedication and determination to help so many special needs rescue dogs, ensuring they get medical attention and care, and giving them a new chance at life. Through rehabilitation and loving foster care, PROUD PUPS RESCUE sees a positive future for the dogs they nurture to become adoptable family pets.
*RITA* comes adorned with a variety of collars - as a pretty pooch in glam with rhinestones or glittery fluff, or in subtle brown or blue velvet with matching string.
*RITA*
RAK LOUISVILLE
Andrew Dunn was in the fifth grade in 2012 when he founded RAK (RANDOM ACTS OF KINDESS) LOUISVILLE, challenging the area's youth to become more engaged in some of the community's outreach projects and contribute in meaningful and fulfilling ways. Andrew recognized at an early age the impact any good deed could have in bringing positive change to a person's day to day life.
Fast forward 10 years later - Andrew has gone off to college - but his movement has proven to have enough of an impact on Louisville that December 23 has been proclaimed "Random Acts of Kindness Day" by the city.
RAK Louisville continues its mission every day to help those in need and encourage Random Acts of Kindness of all sizes throughout the community. From making sack lunches and snack bags to stocking food pantries, their acts of service are designed to engage students, their families and even their friends through outreach efforts that address food insecurity, homelessness, disaster relief and other community hardships.
Our cheery little *FRIENDSHIP BIRD* is dedicated to RAK Louisville in recognition of how acts of kindness, random or planned, create a positive energy capable of a rippling effect for others to follow.
*FRIENDSHIP BIRD*
SMOKETOWN FAMILY WELLNESS CENTER
SMOKETOWN FAMILY WELLNESS CENTER (SFWC), a non-profit pediatric medical facility, provides clinical care and educational programs designed to promote a healthy lifestyle for children and their families.
Founded in 2018 by pediatrician Dr. Charlotte Stites, the center's focus is to evaluate and identify family needs and provide comprehensive medical care for their patients from a safe, community-based facility, helping children and their families lead healthy lives and build continued resilience.
Our *CINNAMON KID,* adorned with a cinnamon bud button or two, is dedicated to SFWC as an expression of happiness knowing kids and their families have access to experienced, compassionate and committed care to keep them healthy and help them thrive.
*CINNAMON
KID*
TRIBE ANIMAL SANCTUARY
Becki and Greg Streif began their animal rescue journey with half a dozen pets when they purchased a home and property in 2014 that would allow them to help animals in need. Today, they are TRIBE ANIMAL SANCTUARY, providing rescue, loving care and a permanent home for over 90 domestic animals, most of them with special needs, including horses, cows, goats, sheep, pigs, ducks, turkeys, cats, dogs and more. Offering educational experiences to the community, Tribe Animal Sanctuary promotes a vegan lifestyle and strives to change the way animals are perceived and treated by our society.
One of their most recent residents is Seth, a little brown bull that dodged capture for a month, making local headlines as he ran loose in Louisville's Cherokee Park. Seth was among other cows that were onboard a cattle truck when it was in a minor accident and, during their transfer to another vehicle, 10 of the cattle escaped, heading to greener pastures at the nearby park. Six were captured quickly, but four remained at large for a few days, until it came down to only one, "Lil Red Bull" as he was dubbed by local livestream journalist Tara Bassett. Lil Red Bull remained at large for over four weeks, his elusive behavior providing enough of a challenge that three professional wranglers were called in to lasso him.
While this story played out, Tara remained hot on his trail, reporting sightings and livestreaming Lil Red Bull's capture and then following up with reports on his new life with his new name, "Seth," in his new home at Tribe Animal Sanctuary, where the young runaway bull was accepted as a permanent rescue resident.
*LIL RED BULL SETH* is among the largest of our ornaments at 4 inches long, captured in running form to show him escaping his previous fate, and is a shout-out to Tribe Animal Sanctuary for their dedication to provide a haven for so many helpless animals and allow them to live their lives cared for, as living beings, not as beings bred for human purpose. Ornaments can be special ordered vegan.
*LIL RED BULL SETH*
UP FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN
Founded in 2017 by Andrea Scott and Amy Meredith, UNITING PARTNERS (UP) FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN provides a safe space for women and children facing homelessness.
In partnership with other community organizations, UP for Women and Children fills a gap in the system by providing a safe day time space specifically for women and children, with laundry, shower, access to a phone, a mailing address, vital resources and housing and employment programs.
*A BEAR HUG* offers a heart-felt hug to someone in need of one, and is dedicated to UP for Women and Children for providing the necessities and crucial resources to those they serve facing difficult times.
*A BEAR HUG*
WILDERNESS TRAIL WILDLIFE CENTER
When Tonya Poindexter founded WILDERNESS TRAIL WILDLIFE CENTER (WTWC) in 2019, she set out to not only provide certified rescue, rehab and release for injured and vulnerable wildlife in eastern Kentucky, but also to educate the public and dispel some of the myths about local fauna.
Tonya provides round-the-clock attention for the creatures in the center's care while also offering free educational engagements at local schools, libraries and community centers where she's been known to bring along an ambassador sidekick or two from one of the many unreleasable critters with permanent residency at WTWC.
The animals at the center can range from nursing infants that lose their mother - usually killed by a vehicle and brought to Tonya by caring passersby - to physically challenged adults, like Kewpie, a special needs opossum outfitted with wheels to compensate for his mobility issues and able to live a long life that included a vital role serving as a wildlife ambassador. Priscilla, a brown bat, was orphaned as a pup and raised at WTWC and later released back to her native habitat. In just four years, the center has saved the lives of hundreds of wildlife creatures, including grey squirrels, flying squirrels, opossums, deer, rabbits, bats, turtles... the list goes on, all of them able to thrive because they received proper care and nurturing at WTWC.
Our *PRISCILLA* ornament has spread her wings to soar, a dedication to WTWC for the determination to take on caring for wildlife in need and in appreciation of the important role bats have as night-time pollinators and voracious insect-eaters, doing their part in eliminating the pest that poses the highest risk to humans - the mosquito.
*PRISCILLA*