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Assisting free-roaming and unwanted animals, and providing resources to help you assist your pets and free-roaming animals.

About Us

We are an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) organization in Tempe, AZ, providing TNR (trap, neuter, return), and life-long care to feral cats. Adoptable pets from our feral colonies are tested, vaccinated, spayed or neutered prior to placement. We do not have a shelter facility and do not accept animals from the public.

We at Animal Loving Friends object to the alledged practices of the Animal Liberation Front, and want to let you know that we are in no way associated with them, though the acronym (ALF) is the same.

Learn more About ALF Animal Loving Friends, Inc.

New This Fall

Garage Sale Benefit October 23

Adoption Event December 12

      248+ Animals Saved from Suffering

You'll find all this in the Fall edition of ALF Mews, and of course, the wacky and wonderful Holidays and observances related to animals.

Featured Pet

Introducing Decker!

There are many wonderful pets waiting for their furever homes. Decker is just one of our special kitties. He was originally altered during TNR at a feral colony, and has held many positions within the ALF organization. First he was model, then a trainer for new volunteers. Now he's just a big 'ol love!

The only word of caution is that Decker likes to give love bites, and sometimes they hurt! He needs an owner who is savvy about cats that use their teeth inappropriately at times.

Meet more Adoptable Pets!

Spay One Stray™ Campaign

In Spring, 2008, we were inundated with pleas for help for homeless, orphaned kittens. Each year it seems to get worse. We couldn't just sit by and do nothing. As the saying goes, "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got." So we launched our Spay One Stray™ campaign.

We asked YOU to get involved and join us to make a difference. We asked you to pledge to
SPAY ONE STRAY

We are thrilled to report that you answered in a BIG way, and have made a WORLD of difference for your neighbors and for the cats.

We'd like to encourage you to continue spreading the message. Even though a cat's breeding cycle will be more intense in the spring and summer than at any other time of year, cats have moved toward year round breeding, and their season doesn't actually end. Some do not come out of heat until they are either impregnated or spayed. The majority will return back into heat approximately every other week.

Please remind everyone that BIG changes can come about from small acts. We'll continue to add names to our SOS™ Participants page, when they share their success story with us!

Read the Spay One Stray™ Campaign launch page from Spring, 2008.

Your accomplishments since SOS™ Launch, Spring '08!
Breeding cycle stopped for:86 cats
Births prevented 1:782
7-year cumulative prevention 1:18,060,000
updated 10/01/09

1The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) estimates that one unaltered female cat and her offspring can produce up to 420,000 cats in just seven years!

Non-Profit Status

Effective February 5, 2009, Animal Loving Friends is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt, non-profit corporation!

The full amount of your donation is tax-deductible, as allowed by law. Your gift could not be more appreciated!

EIN: 26-2284558
Have a question? Need to surrender a pet? Found a stray? A lot of details are provided to answer many of the typical questions we are asked. Before you email, please check our
FAQ
to see if we've provided enough information to answer your question. If you don't find what you need, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Found Kittens?

Before you do anything, Click here.

Overpopulation of homeless animals leads to the needless suffering and deaths of over 4 million animals each year. Please spay and neuter all your pets and urge your friends and family to do the same.

Clinics
There are several affordable low cost spay and neuter options. View a list of Clinics.

If you are feeding stray or feral cats, please contact the Spay Neuter Hotline today to schedule TNR (Trap, Neuter, Return) appointments.

Spay Neuter Hotline

You can enable us to continue helping homeless animals. See our Wish List for a variety of items that ALF needs.

Over the years, ALF has helped hundreds of animals, costing thousands of dollars. We've been primarily self-funded, supported by our Co-Directors' personal incomes. Approximately 100 cats currently depend on our care, and thousands more are still out there waiting. Your donations would help significantly.

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

Shop!

Every item you purchase for yourself helps another rescue animal.

Many of the graphics used on this web site are provided courtesy of

The Animal Rescue Site
Help ALF win $20,000!
Smaller prizes are also available (like George's story),
"What Matters Most
is How You See Yourself"
.
It doesn't have to be the big fish!
Help us win by voting every day!
Vote for Animal Loving Friends
in The Animal Rescue Site $100,000 Shelter+ Challenge.

We need YOU!
Every vote counts.

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Garage Sale!
Friday, October 23
7 - 11 AM
4667 W. Shannon St.
Chandler


Clean out your closets and donate your unwanted items to benefit the animals of ALF

Details in ALF Mews.

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Events

Sadly, many young, beautiful kittens are put to death because they simply have no place to go. We're seeing new cats arriving at our feral colonies by the dozens, many of them pregnant. The food supply is often not enough to support large groups, and many suffer and die of hunger or injury.

We believe that the best defense is offense - attacking the problem at its source - by altering free-roaming cats before they reproduce.

Will you help?

Volunteers are needed to set and monitor humane traps, transport cats to/from vet appointments, and provide food and water after the cats are released to their colonies. Knowing that you are saving lives and making a positive difference in your community is very rewarding.

Get started today by visiting our Volunteers page.

Economic Relief

Many Americans have lost their homes, and animals are coming into shelters 20, 30, 40 at a time. Rescue groups are suffering as well, since adoptions and donations are severely decreased. Some have closed their doors.

This all results in another large increase in the number of free-roaming cats left to survive on the streets. Sadly, many of those are not altered, and more kittens are being born into the suffering, with no place to go.

We hope that you'll consider adding a new furry member to your family, or contributing some financial relief to an animal rescue organization in your community.

We've provided some resources for Economic Relief, for those in need of assistance for their furry pals.

Several of our informational sheets are saved in PDF format, and require Adobe Reader. If you don't have it installed, you can get it here.



ALF Animal Loving Friends
7650 S McClintock Dr
Suite 103-120
Tempe, AZ 85284

Contact Us

Email: alfrescue@hotmail.com