February is Spay/Neuter Awareness Month, and the Hardin County Clerk’s Office is encouraging local vehicle owners to support animal shelters across the commonwealth by purchasing the recently re-designed Spay or Neuter specialty plate.
According to a release from the Clerk’s Office, the Kentucky Animal Control Advisory Board held a design contest for the first makeover of the plate in more than 20 years, selecting a design created by Kentucky artist Hayli Strickland “featuring a playful ‘peek-a-boo’ design of a kitten and dog’”. The Clerk’s Office says adding the plate is easy for any customer who visits the Radcliff or Elizabethtown Clerk’s Office locations.
Elizabethtown City Council Member Julia Springsteen is the co-chair of the Animal Control Advisory Board. She says picking the Spay or Neuter plate when you register your vehicle or renew your registration supports the animal population.
“The Animal Control Advisory Board’s mission is to distribute revenue from the sale and renewal of the Spay/Neuter license plate, and those monies go out in the form of spay/neuter grants to animal shelters across the state, including the Hardin County Animal Shelter,” Springsteen said.
The new plate comes at a time when shelters everywhere are struggling with demand.
“Shelter Animals Count reports the average intake for Kentucky shelters is 319 dogs and 322 cats each month, and adoptions are only about a third of those numbers, so we hope this encourages people to be very public about their support for spaying and neutering pets,” Springsteen said. “Every animal fixed outside of a shelter gives a shelter animal a better chance at getting a new family.”
Sales of the plate have generated more $600,000 in grants, covering more than 17,000 procedures statewide.
Contact the Clerk’s Office or visit drive.ky.gov for more information.
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