Visit our website for more up-to-date information: Animal Rescue Volunteers Inc.

Animal Rescue Volunteers Inc. has had adoptions in Simi Valley, CA since 1994 - supporting our community as well as educating the public regarding the care of both dogs and cats, spay and neuter, advocating for humane conditions and a quality of life for all companion animals.

• View our current cats and dogs up for adoption here: Our Pet List Check out what goes on at adoptions and see many of our current dogs, "up front and personal," at our adoptions video on YouTube (a report by Ralph concerning spay and neutering your pets begins the video).
• Adoptions are held every Saturday between 12 noon until 4PM with the exception of some holiday weekends (please check the Petfinder calendar if around a holiday) - NO Adoptions on November 29th or December 27th, 2008.
   
• Adoptions are held at the Simi Valley PetSmart (between Walmarts and Home Depot) on 455 E Cochran Street, Simi Valley, CA 93065 - 455 Cochran St
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• Visit our CafePress store - 100% of the profits go directly to rescue efforts of cats and dogs in the Greater Los Angeles and Ventura County areas.
   
• Adopting a Friend: ARV's adoption days are a critical part to helping our furry friends find loving homes. They provide us a chance to screen prospective adoptive parents while providing you the ability to spend time with the animal.  Since we are making decisions that affect the animals life we carefully screen the potential home thru our questionnaire along with accompanying all animals to their new homes to make sure all is okay.  Completing an adoption application does not guarantee an adoption.
   

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• We need HELP - please!!  ARV is solely foster-based - the number of dogs and cats we can save is directly related to the number of foster homes we have.  Are you are loving, caring and responsible? Love cats and/or dogs? We'd like to ask you to open your home and help us foster a cat or dog from our local shelter so that they are not euthanized. If you can foster either a cat or a dog, email us at staff@arvsimi.org
   
• What does it mean to be a volunteer foster family? You will receive unconditional love from your foster. You will feel happy knowing you helped to save your foster's life... the gratification is priceless!  Responsibilities of a foster family are as easy as A-B-C:  a) give unconditional love, b) feed, give shelter and exercise, c) try and teach your foster good from bad behavior, d) bath and brush when necessary, e) provide a safe fenced yard for dogs, f) provide a safe inside home only for cats and g) drop off at adoptions on Saturdays at 11:30am and pick up at 4pm if not adopted.
   
• What We Have Accomplished: Animal Rescue Volunteers was instrumental in the adoption and referral adoptions of over 3,900 animals from 1994 thru today. We have spent over $100,000 in veterinary care for rescued pets with broken jaws, hip and leg fractures, upper respiratory, cancer, mange, and even helped our poster dog Hannah get a pacemaker. ARV has paid thousands of dollars in fees to animal control agencies and shelters to save unwanted pets before they were destroyed.
   
• Volunteering and Donations: ARV is a non-profit organization registered with the IRS as such. Our volunteers are people just like you - who have a love for animals, and would like to donate their time or services to help the helpless. Foster families are always needed if you are interested please email for more details.  We are also always in need of financial help, since most of our money comes from our adoptions donations . We always seem short on funds for medical needs - 100% of all donations go directly to the support and care of the companions temporarily entrusted in our care.  So if you can see it in our heart to make a donation, please remember every dollar helps. Our future plan is to have a facility to enable us to rescue and home more cats and dogs in a home like environment, with a yard.  Just give us a call at 805 579-8047.