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Pat and Susan if you have seen this dog perhaps you might know where he lives. This particular dog showed up at someone's house and they are feeding him. They sent an email to Animales and they sent it to me. I asked for photos to post to further investigate the possibility that the dog has an owner. ARF does not randomly pick up cats and dogs. If the animal is being fed by people in the area we support it in other ways. ARF does help people with their animals. ARF brings them food , vaccinations, medicine, dog houses and tie out runs for their animals and takes them to the spay/neuter clinics. That is one of our main goals is the help animals stay with their families by educating them in a better way to take care of them. We have several families that we help. Bonnie is correct in that we are a small band of volunteers trying to do a huge job. When someone calls us about an animal and we are unable to take it in for lack of space. We find out what else is needed and help in the ways we can at that time. We offer our adoption areas for them also. We are in the process of doing two different campaigns, one for recruiting volunteers and a food drive for the animals. ARF has also met with Amigos de Animales to work together on an educational program for the schools. I hope this answers some of the questions anyone may have had as to what ARF is attempting to accomplish. Nancy

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Nancy Bourque September 30, 2014 at 7:39am

Pat and Susan if you have seen this dog perhaps you might know where he lives. This particular dog showed up at someone's house and they are feeding him. They sent an email to Animales and they sent it to me. I asked for photos to post to further investigate the possibility that the dog has an owner. ARF does not randomly pick up cats and dogs. If the animal is being fed by people in the area we support it in other ways. ARF does help people with their animals. ARF brings them food , vaccinations, medicine, dog houses and tie out runs for their animals and takes them to the spay/neuter clinics. That is one of our main goals is the help animals stay with their families by educating them in a better way to take care of them. We have several families that we help. Bonnie is correct in that we are a small band of volunteers trying to do a huge job. When someone calls us about an animal and we are unable to take it in for lack of space. We find out what else is needed and help in the ways we can at that time. We offer our adoption areas for them also. We are in the process of doing two different campaigns, one for recruiting volunteers and a food drive for the animals. ARF has also met with Amigos de Animales to work together on an educational program for the schools. I hope this answers some of the questions anyone may have had as to what ARF is attempting to accomplish. Nancy
Bonnie Williams September 29, 2014 at 9:33pm

In ARF's defense, they have only a handful of volunteers, and you can bet that they're not picking up every underweight dog they see. They already are critically short of places to house them.They rescue dogs in distress: those that are ill, injured, or clearly starving. And, because their volunteer base is small, I think it's unreasonable to expect them assume the additional function of trying to educate negligent owners, even if they could find them. In a perfect world . . . .

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