Gifts given to Green River pets

Pets across Green River in need of help received what their owners wanted them to thanks to community donations.

For the past few years, the Golden Hour Senior Center has participated in the Care For Critters program. This program encourages residents to help seniors and homebound residents by donating pet food, toys, beds and anything else a pet might need.

Irish Kreis, GHSC activities and marketing coordinator, said this year they filled 77 tags with pet requests and all of those requests were granted.

"It was less (people) than last year," Kreis said. "We helped 24 dogs and 13 cats."

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