Welcome to AARF
Anguilla location
The Anguilla Animal Rescue Foundation (AARF) is a non–profit organization dedicated to the welfare of dogs, puppies, cats and kittens on the Caribbean island of Anguilla. We are 100% unpaid, volunteer–driven with a shelter that is located within Anguilla’s only veterinary clinic.
Anguilla is a very small island which lies about 140 miles east of Puerto Rico. It’s very small — only 16 miles long by 3 miles wide. The land area is about 35 square miles, or about 91 km2. (If you want to learn more about Anguilla, here are a few pointers to more bits of information.)
Sandy
The population is about 12,000 and the ratio of pets to those owners wanting pets is very high. Most people who want a pet have one, but there are many animals available.
We work to accomplish our mission to promote the welfare of dogs and cats via several activities and programs.
Specifically, we:
- Maintain a pet shelter that takes in unwanted animals.
- Provide for adoptions of healthy animals at a reasonable cost.
- Socialize incoming animals to make them adoptable.
- Educate the public in the humane treatment and care of animals. In particular, we have an education program that visits school children with a classroom presentation runs several times a year and publish articles in the nation’s newspaper and tourist literature.
- Attempt to reduce the population of unwanted animals via education and by providing spay and neuter surgery to new adopters and with targeted Trap, Neuter and Release (TNR) programs.
We are an established non–profit corporation and have a subsidiary corporation in Florida. As of April 2012, we have applied for US 501(c)3 status. However, we receive no funding from any official source; 100% of our budget comes from donations, fundraisers and the sale of a small amount of merchandise.
If you would like to help, please see our How to Help page. We have recently added a Paypal button to make it easy to donate to AARF.
Contact us if you have any questions or comments.
Also, please join our low–volume, one–way announce email list, which provides up to the minute information about happenings. We also have a social two–way forum on Facebook.
Click on images with a thick gray border (such as the one around Sandy the dog just above) for an enlargement or for more information.
May 17
News and Quick links (news items are lower down on this page):
- New! Donate to AARF Using PayPal
- Petals Boutique promotes Anguilla golf shirt, and AARF gets donation for each shirt!
- Important: Morlens Phone Number Change
- Updated Vet maps and contacts for St. Martin/Maarten and Morlens
- Want to Volunteer?
Puppies and Dogs:
- Viven Leigh — female, Dk brown fluffy
- Michael Douglas — male, tan
- Angela Jolie — female, tan/black mask
- Marilyn Monroe — female, tan/black mask/white paws
- Julia Roberts — female, tan/black mask, short tail
- Anthony Hopkins — male, tan,black mask and tail
- Audrey Hepburn — female, lig ht tan / wrinkled neck
- Ava Gardner — female, medium tan/white paws/ wrinkles over eyes
- Marlon Brando — male, light tan/black snout
- James Dean — male, black ;with white and black spotted paws, white spot back of neck
- Jimmy Cagney — male, dark brown with amber strip along back
- Justin Timberlake — male, tan with black snout and white on belly
Kittens:
- Lady Maude — female, ginger/white
- Blue Bird — male, gray/white
- Speed — male, black/white
- GREAT PET ALERT!!!!!! Tornado — male, black; really friendly and cuddly!
(For larger images and more information, click on any thumbnail image below or go directly to our Available page.)
Lady Maude
Bluebird
Speed
Tornado
Viven Leigh
Michael Douglas
Angela Jolie
Marilyn Monroe
Julia Roberts
Tony Hopkins
Audrey Hepburn
Ava Gardner
Marlon Brando
James Dean
Jimmy Cagney
Debbie Reynolds
Justin Timberlake
Upcoming Events and other news
Now you can Donate Using PayPal We’ve added a Paypal button! Click on the graphic on the navivation bar on our main pages. It leads to our revamped “How to Help AARF” page. Thanks very much in advance to those wanting to help AARF.
Isle Cool shirt
Isle Cool shirt
Petals Boutique promotion to help AARF Petals Boutique (at the Frangipani Beach Resort in Meads Bay) is once again helping AARF with a special shirt promotion, this time for the month of May. This “Isle Cool” golf shirt (and it is cool) with tasteful Anguilla text normally sells for $42, but this month, it’s on sale for only $30 — and 1/2 of that ($15) goes to AARF! Thanks to Jan and Petals for this lovely show of support. Get this great looking shirt, save money and support AARF all at the same time. Petals Boutique has an array of jewelry, clothing, local art, gifts, designer goodies and more — all perfect for here on Anguilla and to take home. Everyone we’ve talked to loves this store! Anguilla-beaches.com has two nice pages with photos and descriptions here and here. Contact Petals Boutique at 264–497–6442. We have a map here.
New phone number for the Morlens (emergency and office) Effective early May, Morlens has a new phone number to be used for office and emergiencies: (264) 581–4600. For the time being, the older office number (497–4600) will work for regular Morlens office hours, but eventually will be supplanted by the 581 number.
Vet Contact Info Updated We’ve updated our veterinarian/vet hospital contact information (both at Morlens as well as for vets on St. Martin and Sint Maartin. Bookmark our Links page, or specifically this link.)
Volunteers Wanted! From time to time we have a need for volunteers to drive animals to and from the clinic for surgery or other medical treatment.
Not all animals’ people have their own transportation, so we are looking for volunteers to help them and us.
Volunteers can borrow crates from the shelter if needed, pick up the animal at home and transport her to the clinic and/or transport her home again when she is done at the vet’s.
If you are interested in helping, please either send an email to our General email account or call the shelter at 476.2731. The shelter phone is only staffed when a volunteer is on duty, but it has voicemail. So leave a message if we’re not there and we’ll get back to you.