The Animal Rescue Fund
of South Carolina
www.ARF-SC.org
Thanks so much for visiting our site about our no kill shelter in Seneca, South Carolina


We're a growing group of animal lovers and we run a no kill, non-profit shelter for dogs and cats needing homes.

We have comfortable facilities for about 25 pets at a time and we were able to place over 300 pets into new homes last year.

When we take over the care of a needy pet, we clean them up, give them a name, treat their wounds and illnesses, test for heartworms, intestinal worms, and leukemia, vaccinate, treat for fleas, ticks, and ear mites.

Then we love and feed them as best we can until we can find them a new home.




Please Help Us

Visit our shelter and consider adopting one of our pets.

We need volunteers to help clean up after the cats and dogs

We need volunteers to pet and play with the cats and kittens

We need volunteers to pet, play, and walk dogs

Or check out pictures of our strays on this site

Volunteer needed to take pictures of our strays each week

Volunteer needed to help us sell donated items on Ebay

We need help with supplies ... paper towels, old regular towels, laundry detergent

We need several thousand dollars a month to operate

We also need volunteers to occasionally take dogs and cats for display at PetSmart on Saturdays

We need volunteers that know how to right grant requests to foundations































Our Mission

1. To save the lives of pets who have been abandoned to fend for themselves

2. To make those pets in our care healthy, comfortable, and loved until we can find a responsible new home for them.

3. To encourage responsible pet care...to include neutering, vaccinations, parasite control, and veterinary care.

















Contact Us:

Phone:  864-882-4488  This will get you to our veterinary clinic receptionist who will try to help you with general information, but may or may not know any details about the individual pet in our shelter

eMail:  ARF@NCTV.com      Note; no one is paid at our shelter.  Everything is done by volunteers.  So it's not like we have a receptionist sitting at the phone and computer waiting to answer your phone calls and e-mails about all your questions about the pets we have for adoption.  So please be patient.  By far the best way to find out about a pet in our shelter is to come in person.

Address:  The Animal Rescue Fund of South Carolina
                 10445 Clemson Blvd
                 Seneca, SC 29678

Directions:  We are midway between the towns of Seneca and Clemson on highway 123 (also known as Clemson Blvd) in the beautiful western corner of South Carolina.



Please visit our site about the love and veterinary care:  Our Veterinary Site: AnimalPetDoctor.com
You'll find lots of pages abut treating different medical problems in pets.

Here are some links to just a few of the many interesting pages you'll find at the AnimalPetDoctor.com Site:

The Human-Animal Bond

Castration ... to include some testicle recipes !

Our Wildlife Pages to include a very funny story about beavers

About C-Sections ... to include a story about the first C-Section being performed by a woman pretending to be a man

About the diseases people get from pets

Our important message about oral hygiene in pets

Lots of information about fleas, arthritis, kidney disease, diabetes, cat diseases, surgery, diarrhea,  the human animal bond, and lots of pictures and stuff just for fun.
Please visit

The History Of Veterinary Medicine

The History of Antibiotics

Other topics on the AnimalPetDoctor.com site include outlines about "What To Expect When You Go To The Vet" for all the common diseases and problems of pets: Liver disease, heart disease, bladder infections, metabolic diseases, arthritis, fractures, skin problems, parasite problems, eye diseases, ear infections, oral health, sexual problems, cancer, kidney diseases, feline diseases, and the diseases people can get from their pets.

Other Links:


Other Shelters

The FoxNest Veterinary Hospital ... the founder of the Animal Rescue Fund   Lots of information about our clinic



Links & Resources
Includes info about veterinary insurance
What's On This Site:

What to do if you have a pet needing a home

Pictures of the cats and kittens needing a home at our shelter

Pictures of the dogs and puppies at our shelter who need a loving, responsible home

Our Policies: fees and requirements for dropping off and adopting pets

Our Page about the Human Animal Bond

Letters, comments, and articles about running a shelter

Pet Responsibility Article by ARF Founder Roger Ross DVM

About the fairly new idea in pet responsibility issues of recommending twice yearly wellness exams

Why Are There So Many Stray & Abandoned Pets?

Copies of our newsletters

Our Page about Training and Behavior

How we raise money to care for stray pets and how you can help

UpComing Events, Yard Sales, Photo Shoots, and Barbeques

Please Help Us


We're a registered non profit corporation; our boring page about our corporate structure, bylaws, and so forth
(Coming soon)



Visit Our
Other Sites:

The FoxNest Veterinary Hospital:  Our shelter is closely associated with The FoxNest Veterinary Hospital which graciously shares or provides facilities, staff, and medical care.  Learn all about our practice by visiting our hospital web site.

The Animal Pet Doctor:  This free veterinary information site  contains hundreds of pages about the care of sick and injured pets.  Other topics include poison information, WildLife Rescue Information,

and

"What To Expect When You Go To The Vet" outlines for different problems with your pet. 

Jokes, pictures, misc comments, stories, and bits of history are scattered throughout.  Enjoy.



Our Pet Insurance Page


The Ten Commandments of Responsible Pet Ownership...by Roger Ross, DVM

Introduction Page to The Human Animal Bond

Prayer of a Stray

A Tribute to Dr Bustad and The Delta Society

Loving a Pet Too Much

Pets As Co-Therapists

Our more extensive pages on the Human Animal Bond on our AnimalPetDoctor.com site

A little recent history on how we treat pets in our culture and why we now recommend twice yearly wellness exams at our hospital


Another Letter;
this one high lighting
some hard questions

Our Mission Statement
Spirt
&
Philosophy

Our Transparent Finances; Where the money goes

Newsletters

Please Join Us in our Efforts in taking care of stray pets and finding them homes

Pictures of the kittens and cats in our shelter needing homes

Pictures of the puppies and dogs needing a loving and responsible home

Events coming up;
Please Join Us
and Help Us


Home; The Animal Rescue Fund

Training and Behavior


Training;Intro Page

Training Basics ... an untrained dog is an unwanted dog

Keeping Puppies from Chewing

Discipline in Training

Dealing with The Aggressive Dog

Dogs need Leaders

House Training

Clicker Training

Other Shelter and Animal Welfare Groups in SC

Taking Care of Baby Wild Animals

The Cat Man; a very different kind of rescue story

A Rescue Story by Laura Garren & a Book Review of Coulter

First Pets
Living in the
White House

Vera Stingy;
a vera funna story

A Cat in the Sink;
God has a sense of humor

Love Animals
in their Place

Professional Breeders vs Amateur Breeders
vs Stray Rescue

A Serious & Insightful Page where I discuss the challanges of running a shelter


Cats Needing Homes     Dogs Needing Homes       Our Policies      Help Us