A.A.R.F. (All About Rescue and Fixin’ Inc.) is small group of un-paid volunteers with a passion for animals. We foster these animals in our homes until they find forever homes. We are a NO-KILL rescue, and treat ALL illnesses that can be treated for any animal which enters our program. A.A.R.F. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization - we rely on you, the public for the majority of our funding so that we may save lives locally. Read more...
Come Meet Your New Pet – NOW in 2 Locations!
We are at PETCO in Cookeville, Tennessee every Saturday between the hours of Noon and 5PM with some of our available animals. If weather permits, and is not too hot or cold, we are setup under tents outside of PETCO. During the summer and winter months, [...]
Wednesday, March 3, 2010: 9:00AM
Great News! “Wally”, formerly named “New Guy” (Thanks Facebook fans), had a great night sleep, and a little bit more bologna before bed, and when I woke up this morning, he was wagging and barking and demanding attention like the other pups in foster care!! I opened his crate, he licked [...]
Tuesday, March 2, 2010: 7:00PM
It was a typical Tuesday night for A.A.R.F. Delivering dogs to their new families, and meet ups with volunteers in the Wal Mart Parking lot, as well as doing some shopping with their families. A lot of commotion arises from one area of the parking lot, where it appeared that a [...]
A.A.R.F. will have a table set up at the Cookeville Home and Garden Show March 5-6-7. We will have drawings for door prizes and you can sign up for our email newsletter! The show is Friday, March 5: 5 – 9pm, Saturday, March 6: 9am – 8pm and Sunday, March 7: noon – 4pm. Our [...]
A.A.R.F. has been invited to the PETCO store at The Avenue in Murfreesboro this Saturday from 11-4PM. We will have adoptable dogs there, as well as at the PETCO store in Cookeville. Stop by a visit with us!
http://www.petco.com/content/locator/Details.aspx?storeId=1667&Nav=2
We have our kennels now, and have our building…and are ready to renovate to create the A.A.R.F. shelter. We are seeking a construction professional to manage this endeavor.
The roof of this building needs work – and we need to build a retaining wall on one side of this building. Once this is complete, we will [...]
Send Us Your Happy Tail
Your Name(required)
Email(valid email required)
When did you adopt?
Pet’s Name
Pet’s New Name (if you changed it)
How is your adopted pet doing? Tell us a little bit about them and how they fit into your family.(required)
We would love to have some photos to go with your “Happy Tail!” Please email photos to volunteers@aarf-tn.com and [...]
EVEN MORE AWESOME NEWS! On a stroke of good luck, Pam and Kyle Peterson with Peterson Express Transport Services- the ONLY transportation provider used by A.A.R.F. – was picking up their new trailer yesterday in the vicinity of Shelbyville and offered to pickup the kennels for us!! The kennels are now here in Cookeville and [...]
For any of you who attended Saturday’s adoption event (2/6/10), you saw the TON of puppies that we were trying to move for the Animal Shelter in Cookeville. We left ALL A.A.R.F. dogs home with the exception of 5 to concentrate on helping our friends at the shelter. We got a few applications on some [...]
SHELTER UPDATE
I arrived at the shelter today to find a ton of Puppies -they are everywhere…I am begging now, more than ever – if you have ever considered fostering, PLEASE call me or send me an email. These animals need you desperately. I am working on potential transports for these pups, but we need time, [...]
It has been a rough weekend and week. From being snowed in to losing another pup, I think we were ALL going stir crazy.
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Cassidy has been officially pre-adopted to a home out of Tennessee. She is doing great – still eating like a horse and LOVING playtime with the other healthy pups. Her favorite new [...]
