In addition to providing shelter and adoption services, ARF serves the East End community in many important ways.

PUP: People United with Pets helps people in crisis keep and care for their animals.

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 bring our animals to local day care centers and nursing homes, where a child or elderly person may enjoy a purring kitten on their lap or an affectionate, playful puppy at their side. 

Puppy Rescue: Thanks to partners including the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals, the Kershaw County Humane Society, ARF of Rincon, Puerto Rico, and the St. Croix Animal Welfare Center, ARF is able to shelter and find new homes for hundreds of puppies and street dogs that otherwise would be euthanized.

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: ARF offers a variety of clinics throughout the year for rabies vaccinations, microchipping and spay/neuter.

Pet Disaster Partnerships: Wheter it's a hurricane in the Bahamas or flooding on the East End, ARF will assist partner organizations and serve as a pet evacuation center for the Town of East Hampton in the event of a town-declared emergency.

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 12,000 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.