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| Did You Know? |
As a private, non-profit shelter with no national affiliations, we rely almost exclusively on fundraising and donations from the community to run our shelter. Because we don’t receive any public funding or grants, it’s the generous support of our community that allows us to continue to house, care for and find homes for the 3,000 cats, dogs, rabbits and other companion animals we help every year!
Like Bailey, the young yellow lab that was found as an emaciated stray dragging the largest chain our staff had ever seen. Bailey cowered in his kennel while at the shelter and didn’t seem to know how to play with his toys, indicating that he had suffered severe neglect and possible abuse. A year and a half later, Bailey is safe and happy at home with his adoptive mother, Ruth, where he loves playing with people and other dogs, has graduated from Level II Obedience and gets to sleep on the couch every night.
On behalf of Bailey and other ARL success stories, thank you for your continued support! |
| Quotes |
"Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy."
Albert Schweitzer - 1875-1965 (Humanitarian and Doctor)
"You think those dogs will not be in Heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us."
Robert Louis Stevenson - 1850-1894 (Author of Treasure Island, Swiss Family Robinson)
"If man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals."
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy - 1828-1910 (Author fo Anna Karenina, War & peace)
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by and epaulit I could have worn."
Henry David Thoreau from the novel Walden
"When you believe there is no love in the world, just gaze into the eyes of the cat in your lap or the dog on your hearth."
Traditional Welsh Poem
"When man destroys a work of man, we call him a vandal. When man destroys a work of God and nature, we call him a sportsman."
Anon. |
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