Animal Rescue Foundation of Southeastern Pennsylvania Inc.


Animal Rescue Foundation of SE PA (ARF) takes in cats and dogs from area public shelters that must euthanize when full. Pets receive veterinary care and live in a home with a foster family (or at our adoption center) until adopted - as long as that takes. We get to know pets well and can match you up with the right fit for your home and family. Please visit our website at www.arfsepa.com to learn more about ARF and the great work done by ARF volunteers each and every day. Make a difference in a pet's life - think rescue first!

OUR DOGS/ OUR CATS/

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OUR HAPPY TAILS

Our Featured Pet...

Please visit our website at www.arfsepa.com to see this week's featured pet! You can also visit our adoption center anytime at the Four Paws Shoppe, 300 West State Street, Media, PA 19063. Please see our website for more information!

How you can help

Check out ARF's magazine fundraiser!!! Buy a magazine through our Reader's Digest fundraising program and ARF gets a donation of 40% of your purchase price! Please see our website at www.arfsepa.com for the link to our magazine fundraiser.

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Fundraising events!!

MAGAZINE FUNDRAISER: If you like magazines, this is the fundraiser for you - plus they make great gifts all year long. You can buy for yourself or send a gift directly through the site. This Reader's Digest sponsored site has hundreds of titles at a significant discount to choose from, including Time, Sports Illustrated, InStyle, Better Homes & Gardens, Seventeen, Parenting and much much more. 40% of your purchase price is donated directly to ARF SEPA!!! We've already raised more than $300 so far and our goal is to raise $3000 for the ARF SEPA veterinary care fund. Please visit www.magfundraising.com/arf to learn more, get some great magazines and help homeless pets at the same time!

Dig and Bark tshirts!!! Visit www.digandbark.com by using the link provided on ARF's homepage - ARF gets 20% of your total purchase price! Dig and Bark has some cool stuff and they're a great sponsor of rescues like ARF.

Tastefully Simple online fundraiser! Visit Tastefully Simple's website at www.tastefullysimple.com and visit consultant Cheryl Wiest's webpage - see our website at www.arfsepa.com for more details!

Adoption Events!

Please visit our website for the most up to date information about adoption events! (www.arfsepa.com). Our events are also listed here on our Petfinder page, just click on "click here to see our events". You can also visit our adoption center at Four Paws Shoppe, 300 West State Street, Media, PA 19063 from Tues-Sat. to see our kitties in person. You can also inquire about other cat or dog adoptions, fill out an application and learn more about the great work ARF volunteers do each and every day. While you're there, please pick up some supplies for your cat or dog! We also have events at Petco in Royersford, PA and visit community events throughout the area. Check our website at www.arfsepa.com for more details!

News!

Join us at our next ARF SEPA meeting! They take place during on the 3rd Wednesday evening of each month in the Media area. Join us to learn how you can make a difference. Email us at info@arfsepa.com for directions and information. At ARF, we understand that you're busy and have a life outside of rescue. If you can only come to things once in a while that's okay, if you can come to multiple events, that's great too. Whatever time you have to give is welcomed and appreciated... even if it's just a little bit of your valuable time, you can make a difference!

Spay / Neuter and Trap-Neuter-Release Initiatives

ARF is committed to reducing the number of homeless pets in the community. We spay/neuter all pets adopted through ARF's foster care program. We also operate a trap-neuter-release program to help relocate feral cats to the safe environment of a barn home. As funds and time allow, we can also run spay/neuter clinics in the community, or refer you to a local low-cost spay/neuter clinic in your area. Please email us for more information or to see how you can help at info@arfsepa.com. We are continually accepting dry cat food donations (in original packaging) and monetary donations to help feed and support the feral cats that live at our safe barn home. Please email us for more information or to make a donation.

Who We Are

The Animal Rescue Foundation of Southeastern Pennsylvania (ARF SEPA) is an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that is solely dedicated to the welfare of companion pets here in southeastern Pennsylvania. ARF volunteers regularly patrol public shelters looking for adoptable pets that may be euthanized due to lack of kennel space. Once taken in to ARF SEPA, pets receive complete veterinary care (including spay/neuter) paid for by ARF, and pets stay with a foster family until adopted into a permanent forever home (as long as that takes). We will do whatever we can to help a pet and find that pet a forever home. For animals that are injured, we'll pay for surgery, like the $1200 ligament repair surgery for a wonderful basset hound named Norman, a $3500 intestinal repair surgery for a puppy named BooBoo, a $400 ultrasound for a kitty named Willow and much more. If a pet is sick, we'll pay for medications and vet care, like our pal Buddy, a bull terrier with the worst skin mange we have ever seen. ARF SEPA paid to have Buddy hospitalized for a month - at a cost of $1700 - to cure his mange and now he's living happy and healthy with a great home in central PA. If a pet has behavioral issues, we'll turn to our behavioral experts on call. We are here to help homeless pets, it's that simple.

We have lots of new programs, including Lucy's Senior Pet Adoption Program, a Trap/Neuter/Release feral cat program, plus many more programs aimed at making a difference right here in our community. If you are interested in joining the Animal Rescue Foundation of SE PA, please give us a call or send us an e-mail at the contact information included at the bottom of this page.

Animal Rescue Foundation of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Inc. is a nonprofit organization incorporated in Pennsylvania. We are a 501(c)(3) public charity, denoted by the Internal Revenue Service. Please be patient with us in returning your phone calls and e-mails... we are all volunteers and work hard at rescue and running our organization. This is in addition to our jobs, families, pets and foster pets at our own homes. We usually get back to you within at least a day, if not just a few hours. Give us a call, send us an e-mail and we'll be back in touch soon.

Adopt - Donate - Volunteer: Think rescue first!

Adopting a friend

Why should you adopt from ARF? For just $100 for a cat ($1 for the second cat if you adopt two together), and $150 for a dog, you get a great pet that has lived in a home, has been checked by a vet, the spay/neuter is included, pets are microchipped, the pet has been tested and vaccinated (and in somecases nursed back to health)... Plus, when you rescue, you are truly saving not just one life, but actually two. When a pet is adopted from ARF, we are then able to go back to a public shelter and rescue another pet to take the adopted pet's place. Since we solely focus on shelters that euthanize, you are truly saving lives when you rescue. That's priceless.

It's easy to adopt from ARF SEPA. If you see a pet you're interested in meeting, just send an e-mail to the contact listed in the pet profile (jla20@mac.com) and tell us a little bit about you. An ARF SEPA adoption counselor will be in touch with you soon after to discuss the process and send you an application. We always make our decisions based on what we feel is best for each pet's needs.

You must own your own home or have written permission from your landlord that you can have a pet(s) (no exceptions). Dogs must be indoor (and given access to a yard and/or leash walked), and cats must be indoor house cats only. Also, all canine adoptions require a pre-adoption visit to your home to ensure that you are just as good a fit for the dog as the dog is for you. Feline home visits are done on a case by case basis. The adoption donation is $175 for adult dogs ($225 for puppies), and is $100 for cats (please note that if you adopt two cats together, the donation for the second cat's adoption is just $1). Pets are adopted directly from an ARF SEPA foster home, and each pet comes with a complete veterinary history, including vaccinations, testing and spay/neuter, all included in the adoption donation. Our adoption counselors will also provide pet personality information and will follow up with you post-adoption to ensure that both you and the pet are thriving. Thank you for thinking rescue first with ARF.

Please tell a friend about us and feel free to contact us anytime at (610)994-4300, by fax at (610)994-4334, or send an e-mail to jla20@mac.com. Also, our website at www.arfsepa.com is coming soon! It's full of resources, training tips and all kinds of good stuff for pet lovers.

Think rescue first - think Animal Rescue Foundation of Southeastern Pennsylvania (ARF SEPA).
Animal Rescue Foundation of SE Pennsylvania Inc. (ARF SEPA)
1167 West Baltimore Pike
#222
Media, PA 19063
Phone: (610)994-4300 Fax: (610)994-4334

Email: jla20@mac.com
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