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Animal Rescue of Fresno


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Animal Rescue of Fresno (ARF) was established in 1998 by a group of community members in Fresno, CA that wanted to do something about the high number of homeless dogs that were dying because no one gave them a chance to find their forever home.

ARF began its operations out of a small facility on Belmont Ave and Highway 99. ARF moved to its current location on Dakota Ave. in 2005. From its humble beginnings, ARF has grown quickly, so that more and more dogs each year can be rescued and adopted out to loving forever homes.

Address:
4545 East Dakota Ave.
Fresno, CA 93726
Phone: 559-225-5715

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No-kill shelters do wonderful work, but as a result, are often inundated with pet surrenders. In the unfortunate scenario that you have to find a new home for your pet, please read through the rehoming solution and articles on this page before contacting the shelter.

Feral Cat TNR Program
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High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter
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Rescue Groups
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Foster Care
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Comprehensive Adoption Programs
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Pet Retention
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Medical and Behavior Programs
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Public Relations/Community Involvement
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Volunteers
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Proactive Redemptions
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A Compassionate Director
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1. Feral Cat TNR Program

Many communities are embracing Trap, Neuter, Release programs (TNR) to improve animal welfare, reduce death rates, and meet obligations to public welfare.


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2. High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter

Low cost, high volume spay/neuter will quickly lead to fewer animals entering the shelter system, allowing more resources to be allocated toward saving lives.


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3. Rescue Groups

An adoption or transfer to a rescue group frees up scarce cage and kennel space, reduces expenses for feeding, cleaning, killing, and improves a community's rate of lifesaving. In an environment of millions of dogs and cats killed in shelters annually, rare is the circumstance in which a rescue group should be denied an animal.


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4. Foster Care

Volunteer foster care is crucial to No Kill. Without it, saving lives is compromised. It is a low cost, and often no cost, way of increasing a shelter's capacity, improving public relations, increasing a shelter's public image, rehabilitating sick and injured or behaviorally challenged animals, and saving lives.


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5. Comprehensive Adoption Programs

Adoptions are vital to an agency's lifesaving mission. The quantity and quality of shelter adoptions is in shelter management's hands, making lifesaving a direct function of shelter policies and practice. In fact, studies show people get their animals from shelters only 20% of the time. If shelters better promoted their animals and had adoption programs responsive to the needs of the community, including public access hours for working people, offsite adoptions, adoption incentives, and effective marketing, they could increase the number of homes available and replace killing with adoptions. Contrary to conventional wisdom, shelters can adopt their way out of killing.


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6. Pet Retention

While some of the reasons animals are surrendered to shelters are unavoidable, others can be prevented-but only if shelters are willing to work with people to help them solve their problems. Saving animals requires communities to develop innovative strategies for keeping people and their companion animals together. And the more a community sees its shelters as a place to turn for advice and assistance, the easier this job will be.


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7. Medical and Behavior Programs

In order to meet its commitment to a lifesaving guarantee for all savable animals, shelters need to keep animals happy and healthy and keep animals moving through the system. To do this, shelters must put in place comprehensive vaccination, handling, cleaning, socialization, and care policies before animals get sick and rehabilitative efforts for those who come in sick, injured, unweaned, or traumatized.


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8. Public Relations/Community Involvement

Increasing adoptions, maximizing donations, recruiting volunteers and partnering with community agencies comes down to one thing: increasing the shelter's exposure. And that means consistent marketing and public relations. Public relations and marketing are the foundation of all a shelter's activities and their success. To do all these things well, the shelter must be in the public eye.


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9. Volunteers

Volunteers are a dedicated "army of compassion" and the backbone of a successful No Kill effort. There is never enough staff, never enough dollars to hire more staff, and always more needs than paid human resources. That is where volunteers come in and make the difference between success and failure and, for the animals, life and death.


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10. Proactive Redemptions

One of the most overlooked areas for reducing killing in animal control shelters are lost animal reclaims. Sadly, besides having pet owners fill out a lost pet report, very little effort is made in this area of shelter operations. This is unfortunate because doing so-primarily shifting from passive to a more proactive approach-has proven to have a significant impact on lifesaving and allow shelters to return a large percentage of lost animals to their families.


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11. A Compassionate Director

The final element of the No Kill equation is the most important of all, without which all other elements are thwarted-a hard working, compassionate animal control or shelter director not content to regurgitate tired cliches or hide behind the myth of "too many animals, not enough homes." Unfortunately, this one is also oftentimes the hardest one to demand and find.


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We have a 5 yr old black daschund & an 18 mth old black lab mix that we can no longer keep due to moving out of our home. Active, playful & love children. Need home asap.
posted by (empty name), on 2016-05-22 08:33:59
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I need a dog for my grandson I don't have much money just alot of love to give to a dog
posted by Lisa Mitchell, on 2021-05-03 18:31:27
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We have 2 puppies that were dropped up here in auberry area. 1 male 1 female. Look like lab mixes. Email me [email protected]
posted by [email protected], on 2023-04-13 01:53:54
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Missing male Rottweiler approx 6 yrs old around 93706 area.
posted by [email protected], on 2023-01-04 15:43:54
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My mom just passed and me and my siblings can’t keep dogs where we live looking for a home for five small dogs 4 are still puppies. If interested please call me at +12093825338 thank you
posted by jay martinez, on 2022-08-08 00:32:47
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My Dog Taco has been missing since April 27th. He was last seen right before the zoo on Belmont. (Belmont and H Street) we’re offering a reward. He’s a tan color Chihuahua/ terrier. He has a curled tail, he hops from the back when he walks. He has a dew claw on the back on his paw in the back.he has a black collar with his name and my info on it. Please contact me 5594176816
posted by kristina trevino, on 2022-05-03 20:11:56
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Looking for someone to take my sweet dexter he is mixed with alaskan husky he’s a chocolate brown with white paws and a whit chest he’s great with kids and other animals he has no health issues I can’t keep him because I’m about to loose my apartment and I don’t wanna take him to the spca
posted by Aleasha Robinson, on 2022-01-04 21:30:49
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Hello, i am moving to a new area & cannot take my dog with me. She is a 4 year old female, birthday is 11/23/17. I believe she would be a great fit with a family that will give her lots of attention & love.
posted by Glenna Keosay, on 2021-10-15 05:28:18
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Found a cat that is very friendly and needs a loving home.
posted by [email protected], on 2021-06-28 20:09:46
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My sisters dog had puppies and my sister held one for my mom. She had to move and to help her out since my mom said she would take her by October I said I would hold onto her but she backed out and I have two other dogs and a cat so I can't keep her
posted by SamanthaSansing, on 2016-10-29 19:33:58
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