In addition to providing shelter and adoption services, ARF serves the East End community in many important ways.
Dog Obedience & Agility School: Our extremely popular and affordable Dog Obedience Classes help prevent people from giving up their dogs due to poor behavior. Dog agility classes are available too!
Pet Therapy: ARF staff and volunteers strive to enhance the lives of children and the elderly by making monthly visits to local day care centers, schools and nursing homes.
PUP: People United with Pets helps individuals with life threatening illnesses, victims of domestic abuse, and the elderly, take care of their cats and dogs.
Amigo Fund: The Amigo Fund was established in 2003 to rehabilitate cats and dogs who have been severely neglected or physically abused.
Lost and Found Pet Clearinghouse: In cooperation with local radio stations, animal control agencies and local veterinarians, over 100 pet owners are reunited with their cats and dogs each year through this much appreciated service. If you've lost or found a pet, please report it to ARF immediately!
FREE Clinics: We encourage local residents to attend our rabies, microchipping and heartworm clinics, where pets receive these services free of charge.
Pet Bereavement Support Group: This free and confidential group is for anyone coping with the death or loss of a companion animal. Grieving persons can find understanding, support and comfort during this time of transition. Everybody is welcome, whether the death or loss of your companion animal occurred recently or a long time ago.
Sister Shelter Partnership: We are delighted to work with our sister shelter, the Humane Society of Grand Bahama Island, on lending a helping hand and sharing our expertise with each other. When Hurricane Frances destroyed the Bahamas shelter in the fall of 2004, ARF was able to relocate all 25 cats and dogs to New York and find new homes for them.
Shinnecock Food Drop: Thanks to Purina, ARF delivers over 100 lbs. of dog and cat food to the Shinnecock Indian Reservation each month. The people on the Reservation are grateful for the food, and since the program started, the animals are noticeably more healthy.
Operation Cat: Through a vast network of volunteers Op Cat humanely reduces the growing number and needless suffering of homeless, feral and stray cats by using an effective trap/neuter/return strategy.
These volunteer caretakers provide food, water and shelter for over 800 cat colonies, ranging in size from two to thirty cats. With ARF's assistance, they trap the cats, bring them to ARF or a local veterinarian where they are altered and inoculated for rabies and distemper, and then release them back to their colony. One of the cat's ears is notched to identify it as an altered cat so it is not mistakenly trapped again.
Since the program's inception in 1997, over 10,000 feral cats from Westhampton Beach to Montauk have been altered.
ARF is a member of the LONG ISLAND CAT PROJECT (LICP) which is a network of feral cat rescuers, care givers and individual citizens on helping to implement a humane and effective solution toward resolving the feral cat problem on Long Island with TNR. ARF is an official LICP hub and serves as the feral cat resource for the East End of Long Island. Learn more at www.licp.org.
ARF also works with the Humane Society of the United States on humanely reducing the feral cat population. Learn more at www.humanesociety.org/feralcats
Click Here for information on Trapping Feral Cats
If you wish to have a feral or stray cat neutered under the program, CLICK HERE FOR AN OPERATION CAT APPLICATION
If you are interested in being a volunteer or would like more information about any of our programs, please contact us. ARF is here to help.
