Animal Refuge Center
Animal Refuge Center is a partner of Best Friends, working together to save the lives of dogs and cats in communities like yours across the country
The Best Friends Network is made up of thousands of public and private shelters, rescue groups, spay/neuter organizations, and other animal welfare groups — all working to save the lives of dogs and cats in communities like yours across the country.
From Animal Refuge Center
El Centro de Refugio Animal (ARC) es una organización privada, sin fines de lucro y sin sacrificio animal, y un santuario ubicado en North Fort Myers, Florida. En los 29 años transcurridos desde su fundación en 1988, ARC se ha convertido en el santuario sin sacrificio animal más grande del suroeste de Florida, prestando servicios a Lee y los condados aledaños. Nuestra misión se centra en reducir la población de mascotas sin hogar y las tasas de eutanasia en nuestra zona mediante la educación, la divulgación, programas comunitarios y la colaboración con otras organizaciones gubernamentales y no gubernamentales de bienestar animal. ARC no realiza eutanasia por comportamiento ni por enfermedades o lesiones tratables, y con frecuencia acoge animales que requieren atención médica urgente o prolongada. Todos los gatos y perros que llegan a ARC son esterilizados o castrados (si es necesario), se les implanta un chip, reciben las vacunas y la atención médica necesarias, reciben entrenamiento de comportamiento y, si no son adoptados, tienen un hogar de por vida.
How is your community doing when it comes to lifesaving?
Our partners support each other and inspire their own communities to increase lifesaving of dogs and cats across the country.
Animals in Florida need your help
You can make a world of difference in the lives of cats and dogs in your community when you work with Animal Refuge Center and Best Friends to support homeless pets and save more lives.
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Who we are
Best Friends Animal Society works alongside thousands of animal shelters, rescue groups, and other animal welfare organizations to save the lives of cats and dogs across the country and to make the entire country no-kill in 2025.
The Best Friends Network is comprised of thousands of animal welfare groups from every single state, all working to save the lives of pets in their own communities.
Ranging from animal shelters and rescue groups to spay/neuter and trap-neuter-vaccinate-return (TNVR) organizations, they collaborate with Best Friends to save even more lives in every corner of the country.
Best Friends provides marketing help, fundraising events, webinars, grants, and other resources so that, together, we can Save Them All.
Interested in becoming a partner? Visit bestfriends.org/network »