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It is the Mission of ARF to provide shelter and sanctuary to abandoned, abused and neglected companion animals awaiting adoption in Mississippi, focusing on the metropolitan tri-county area.   

We rescue, rehabilitate and socialize our rescues, instill a the animals ability to trust, love and be loved either again or for the first time.  

Rankin County, where ARF is located, has one of the highest number of animal control pick ups in the State, and within 5 days, a very high number of these animals are euthanized.  The organization wishes to make a change in the reality of this as well as in the mindset of a community who accepts this as a norm.  We wish to effect change through education and activism, as well as to provide an alternative to the only animal control option the community has had:  euthanization of stray and unwanted companion animals.  ARF strongly supports spay/neuter policies to reduce companion  animal over population and follows strict spay/neuter policies with its own animals pre-adoption.

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