Charter

Animal Rescue and Care Network, Inc. is a Community Animal Rescue Effort, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) all volunteer organization dedicated to rescuing abused and abandoned animals and promoting the humane treatment of animals through public education.

Animal Rescue and Care Network, Inc., was formed to provide the best chance for life to animals in need.

Our Charter is to:

• Provide better lives for animals through rescue and adoption efforts with multiple animal rescue groups. Our adoption process has evolved from many years of experience. The goal of our adoption counselors is to make a good match between animal and human. If we don't have a perfect match for you we network with other organizations to help find your perfect companion.
  
• Provide education services on spay/neuter and kindness to animals. Our programs include field trips to local shelters and seminars at local schools to educate children on kindness to animals. We also provide seminars on how to trap, spay, and neuter in your neighborhood, how to run your own Animal Rescue and Care Network, Inc. adoption fair, and how to put together a fundraiser to help raise money for the animals. We help enable you to make a difference.
  
• Provide shelter for abandoned and disgarded animals. Our sanctuary is a holding facility for adoptable, loving animals in addition to a special, tranquil permanent home for special needs and older animals who are terminally ill or very old. We are a no-kill organization.
  
• Trap, Neuter, Return (TNR) to help control feline overpopulation. The only solution to prevent cruel overpopulation that condemns millions of animals a year to be put to death in the United States is to spay and neuter. Animal Rescue and Care Network spayed and neutered over 70 feral cats in Santa Clara County alone in 2004. Our goal is to double that number in 2005.

The mission of Best Friends is driven by the simple philosophy that kindness to animals helps build a better world for all of us.

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