Animal Rescue Fund (ARF) was founded in 2005 by Elizabeth (Pippa) Jackson. However, Pippa has been rescuing animals all her life, and the formation of ARF as an official non profit group was the result of a life-long dream. She has chased frightened dogs down busy freeways, nearly been shot at as she tried to rescue a stray off the property of a man trying to shoot him, plucked kittens out of garbage bins, and always travels with a crate and a spare lead.
Odds are, if you are a friend of Pippa, you've got at least one dog or cat she's rescued in your home.
ARF depends on the contributions of friends, neighbors, local vets, and pretty much anybody else they can charm. It is the mission of ARF to provide shelter and sanctuary to abandoned, abused and neglected companion animals awaiting adoption in Mississippi, focusing on the metropolitan tri-county area. ARF rescues, rehabilitates and socializes their rescues, instilling in the animals the ability to trust, love and be loved either again or for the first time.
When ARF takes in a rescued stray animal, that animal receives any and all necessary medical care, heartworm tests and medication, spay or neuter, and then the hunt is on to find that animal it's "forever home". We work carefully with potential adoptive families to ensure that the animal you adopt is the one that will best fit into your family and lifestyle.
Rankin County, where ARF is located, has one of the highest number of animal control pick ups in the State, and within 5 days, a very high number of these animals are euthanized. ARF is working to make a change in the reality of this as well as in the mindset of a community who accepts this as a norm. ARF wants to effect change through education and activism, as well as to provide an alternative to the only animal control option the community has had: euthanization of stray and unwanted companion animals. ARF strongly supports spay/neuter policies to reduce companion animal over population and follows strict spay/neuter policies with its own animals pre-adoption.
The most important thing that you can do is spay or neuter your pet, never buy from a pet store or backyard breeder, and educate yourself about the overpopulation of domesticated pets in this country.
Read Elizabeth's Blog to get a peak into the life of a rescuer! Some of the posts are tough to read...Thank you Elizabeth for having a soft heart...for inspiring us to be better and for loving those who may have never known love without you!
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Source: http://www.arfms.org/
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