Help Animal Rescue Front continue saving the lives of the neglected, abused, and in need.
Support ARF Today!Located on Cape Cod in Massachusetts and founded in September 2005, immediately following Hurricane Katrina, The Animal Rescue Front has never given up on the animals of the Gulf Coast. ARF is currently responsible for saving the lives of over 12,297 dogs and cats, kittens, and puppies, most from the state of Mississippi, where companion animal overpopulation is a crisis and legal protections minimal.
In 2024, ARF is still working in Mississippi and Louisiana to combat the severe pet overpopulation problem, and we continue transporting animals to homes throughout the United States. It is only with your support and generosity that we can save more. Contact us to learn more.
Each month we take the trip from down south to the Northeast to save dogs and cats from high-kill states.
Learn more about our CampaignsChris McLaughlin’s life’s purpose became clear when the floods of Katrina receded. The toll the disaster took on the lives of the animals of the Gulf Coast ignited a passion and purpose that continues today. “ARF’s work will live on because of the lives we met, the lives we saved, and the lives we lost.” …Read More
Jan Mitchell resides in Boulder, CO and has been fostering animals for her local humane societies and rescues since 1991. She met Chris in New Orleans while doing post-Katrina animal rescue work and she has worked with rural farmers in a small village in Ghana since 2001 teaching gentle handling of their working animals. Eventually, …Read More
Albert M Wisialko, ARF’s accountant, works at A. Wisialko and Co., a successful accounting firm in Massachusetts. He has adopted (from ARF) one rescue dog, Chet, from Mississippi. He has three children and promotes the Animal Rescue Front’s commitment to rescue animals in any way that he can.
Gabby Savage, our Transport Coordinator, discovered ARF in 2015 when she adopted her first ARF dog Maverick. Over the next four years she and her husband Tom, a firefighter, adopted two more ARF dogs. With over fifteen years of experience in veterinary medicine and a passion for rescue the next natural step was to join the …Read More
Liz Stillman, JD, is a graduate of Tufts University (Social Psychology) and Northeastern University School of Law. Currently she’s an Associate Professor of Academic Support at Suffolk University Law School. Liz is a proud human companion to Leo and Sasha (from ARF!) as well as Toni, Java and Coco and three amazing human children. Liz lives …Read More