🎄 AARF GIVING TREE — HOW TO PARTICIPATE 🐾

Thank you for helping our rescued pets this holiday season!
 Every ornament represents a real cat or dog currently in AARF’s care. Your sponsorship provides enrichment, food, medical care, and a safe place to heal.

PICK AN ORNAMENT

Choose a cat or dog you’d like to help.
 Each ornament includes a photo, name, and their holiday wishes.

+ You can see all ornaments virtually by clicking “The AARF GIVING TREE” pink banner above.

+ You can also find the pet ornaments, throughout the month of December, on display trees at:

~ AARF Headquarters at 16375 Monterey Rd, Morgan Hill. Hours are all Saturdays and Sundays in December from 12-3pm

~ Gold’s Gym Gilroy at 8797 San Ysidro Ave, Gilroy. Open daily.

~ Kelly Brewing Company, 70 E. 4th St, Morgan Hill. Open daily.

~ LePooch Grooming, 15650 Vineyard Blvd, Ste B, Morgan Hill. Open Tue-Sat 7am-5pm

~ Oak Method, 313 Vineyard Town Center, Morgan Hill. Open various hours daily. 

~ Amour Nailz, 1053 Cochrane Rd, Ste 160, Morgan Hill. Open daily except Sundays. 

~ VCA, 12955 Monterey Rd, San Martin. Open Mon-Sat.

~ South County Animal Hospital, 15790 Monterey Rd, Morgan Hill. Open Mon-Sat.

~ A Pop of Color Yarns, 16375 Monterey Rd, Morgan Hill. Open Tue-Sat.

SHOP

Shop at your favorite pet store or online, and bring your gifts to our AARF Headquarters to put under our tree, any Saturday or Sunday afternoon in December from 12-3pm.

Or click our online wishlist link to shop virtually and the items will be shipped directly to us. Please note the special pet you are gifting in the gift notes section.

For our Amazon Wishlist, click here: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3N6W5D7ZBG256/ref=cm_go_nav_hz

OR DONATE/SPONSOR

You can donate to our general care fund or if a specific AARF animal has inspired you, please note their name in the field.

Select a sponsorship level using our Zeffy donation link here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/aarf-giving-tree--2025

Some examples of what your gift provides:

•           $25 treats, toys, enrichment

•           $50–$75 vaccines, food, litter

•           $100+ medical care, spay/neuter, special needs support

•           Or select any level and then you can change the amount to any dollar amount you want

Every gift to AARF makes a real impact. Donations are tax-deductible — you will receive a receipt by email.

Please note that you do not have to pay a transaction fee - simply choose the fee pulldown and type in $0 before completing your transaction. 

CELEBRATE & SHARE

Once sponsored, we will mark the ornaments as sponsored.
 Share your sponsored pet on social media to help them get adopted!

Questions or need help?

AARF volunteers are here to assist. You can reach us any time at info@aarflove.org.
Thank you for supporting our animals this season! 💛🐾

🎄AARF Presents - A Fun Holiday Event! 🎄

🎅 SANTA PAWS - Bring your pet(s) for a fun picture with Santa! 🐕 🐈 📸 

🕰️ When: Back to Back days - Saturday, 12/6 from 12-4pm AND Sunday, 12/7 from 12-4pm.

💲Cost: For a donation to AARF of an amount of your choosing!

🏫 Where: AARF Headquarters at the Candy Park Plaza at 16375 Monterey Rd, Morgan Hill.

Santa and all the elves look forward to meeting your pets. 🩵🩷

Note:  For the safety of all, dogs must be on leash and kitties or small pets must be in secure carriers please.  

Our Adoption Playroom will also be open to the public during this time, so you can meet some adorable and adoptable kitties too!🐱 

We will also have yummy treats and cool holiday shopping! 

Any questions about our events or our adoptable cats and dogs, email us at info@aarflove.org.

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IT IS KITTEN SEASON

If you have questions about kittens you have found, a stray cat you need help trapping and other TNR related situations, please do not hesitate to email us at TNR@aarflove.org. We will do our best to help or point you in the right direction.

If you find kittens without a mother cat present, don't immediately assume the kittens are orphans or have been abandoned! If the kittens are in a safe spot, observe quietly from a distance; at least 35 feet or more away. If the kittens are clean and content, chances are that their mom is just out hunting for her own food and will be back within a few hours. She may also be in the process of moving them and is often the case when people find small, single kittens outside. Mom may even be watching you from a distance waiting to safely return to her nest. Another way to see if mom is still around is to sprinkle flour around the nest of kittens. You can then check back in a few hours to see if there are paw prints detected.

Do not leave food for mom near her kittens. She purposely hides her kittens away from food sources as she knows that food attracts other cats and predators.

Do NOT take pre-weaned kittens from their nests. Pre-weaned kittens (under 4 weeks of age) are difficult to care for and have a higher mortality rate. They often fail to thrive without their mother and they really have a much better chance of survival staying with their mom until they are old enough to be weaned. Please don’t steal kittens from nests. You may think you are doing a good deed but how heartbreaking for the mom cat to return to find her babies gone. Please let her care for them. Healthy babies can usually wait 4-6 hours for mom to return.

If mom doesn’t come back after several hours or if the kittens look sickly or are in immediate danger, please reach out for assistance. Please reach out to us for advice before extracting kittens. You can reach us at info@aarflove.org or by private message from our Facebook page. We have experienced volunteers ready to advise and assist.

If you decide to take them in and care for them yourself, please note what is required:

WARMTH AND FIRST AID FIRST! Never feed a chilled kitten as they cannot digest food when they are cold and can go into shock and die! Warm them up slowly using body heat, if possible (place them inside your shirt, next to your warm skin). Check for illness or injury and if covered in fleas, use a flea comb to remove them. Please note that neonatal kittens are much more at risk of hypothermia than they are of starvation so please keep kittens warm (not hot) at all times.

FEEDING: Never feed a kitten cow’s milk! Kittens younger than 6 weeks old must have kitten formula (kitten milk replacer) and kitten food! Kittens younger than 4 weeks old will need to be bottle fed warm formula 4-6 times in a 24 hour period!

LITTERBOX: Kittens younger than 4 weeks old need help urinating and cannot do it by themselves! Stimulate their bottoms to make them urinate by gently rubbing their bottoms with a damp tissue or cotton ball before and after each feeding. A full bladder is painful and your kitten could die without this step!

Later in the season, you may find kittens with their eyes opened and playing around outside of the nest and active or running around. Those kittens are likely old enough to extract but before doing so, you should reach out to AARF or another cat rescue organization so the mom cat can be trapped and spayed so she doesn’t continue to have more litters. When we help babies, it’s important to help their mother as well. Her health and well being matter too and TNR is the only way to stop additional unwanted litters.

Thank you to everyone that cares about our community’s cats and looks out for them. We are here to help so please reach out to us if needed.

~ the AARF Team

Want more info on how to care for kittens if you do take them in? There are great instructional videos available on kittenlady.org. In addition, all the local rescue groups and shelters are always looking for foster families to add to their kitten care team and they can help you learn. Considering becoming a foster to help save precious lives here in our community.

Our Mission:

Healing Hearts, Fresh Starts.

We are a 501(c)3 non-profit all volunteer rescue organization focused on physically rescuing and reuniting lost/found animals within our community.  We provide medical assistance and care to the injured, abused, neglected, abandoned and underaged animals.  We also rescue at-risk animals from local shelters. For the animals that come into our rescue, they are placed in safe, nurturing foster homes to prepare them for adoption.  We are dedicated to match each and every animal with the very best forever home.

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