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Animal Rescue Fund, Inc. (ARF)


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Animal Rescue Fund, Inc. is a privately-funded, non-profit, 501(c)(3) charitable organization incorporated in the State of Ohio in February 1980. We operate a no-kill shelter for homeless animals called “The Farm” on 17 acres in Amelia. Our operation has full and part time staff members and volunteers. The shelter provides for the health, safety, and happiness of all our animals.


Community Service Performed by Animal Rescue Fund

We play an active and important role in serving the community in several ways.

Rescue and Adoption Program – We receive numerous calls from residents and law enforcement reporting stray, abused, and/or neglected dogs, cats or other animals. We rescue these animals and provide them with food, care and shelter until their owners or loving forever homes are found. We also take animals from county shelters when they are scheduled to be euthanized or the shelters are full, and gives them a chance to find someone who will make them an important part of their family.

Community Assistance – Animal Rescue Fund helps with food and shelter and offers other assistance to underprivileged people in the community so they can keep their pets in their home and do not have to surrender them.

Spay/Neuter Program– We also identify disadvantaged individuals in Clermont and surrounding counties who are unable or unwilling to pay for the costs associated with sterilization of their pets and offer to help with veterinary care and transportation to get the animals spayed/neutered to prevent more homeless animals.

Feral Cat Program – Animal Rescue Fund also operates a catch-spay/neuter-release program for feral cats to help stop the rapidly growing problem of reproducing feral cats. For example, we helped with a cat hoarding situation where a farm had been overtaken by over 300 cats and kittens. Our staff nursed many of these kittens and cats back to good health, got them spayed or neutered, and found them loving homes.

Community Education – To help reduce the number of homeless animals, we participate in community outreach programs and events to educate the public about the homeless animal epidemic and the importance of spaying, neutering and vaccinating pets.

We Help All Kinds of Animals
We provide shelter, food and care for all kinds of homeless animals, including puppies, kittens, dogs, cats, ducks, deer, horses, chickens, and goats. Through our adoption program, we try to find safe, loving forever homes for the puppies, kittens, cats and dogs. We also provide a sanctuary for other animals, such as horses, goats and deer, to live out the rest of their lives in a safe and caring environment.


Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 464
Amelia, Ohio 45102

Call Us: 513-753-9252

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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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