Jackson Jambalaya

 The Animal Rescue Fund needs your help.  Let's face it, animal rescue is a dirty business.  Most rescuers don't get paid.  They crawl under houses, go into the hood, and endure seeing dogs suffering from neglect, abuse, and yes, torture.  It is a thankless job but also a calling of the highest order.  You saw the media reports on how a thief repeatedly vandalized the ARF, stealing lawn care equipment, vaccines, drugs, dog food, and other supplies.  Please donate to the ARF as it desperately needs your help.  Click here to donate through PayPal or mail.  The ARF's Executive Director, Pippa Jackson, posted an update on Facebook yesterday: 

I want to clear up some misinformation that is circulating.

Over the years we at ARF have experienced break ins and robberies.

But, the difference now is that the police are actually doing something. They are sending detectives, investigators, patrols, gathering information like dna and fingerprints. One time a few years ago, we had a robbery and when we asked that they take fingerprints or DNA (there was blood everywhere and fingerprints with blood everywhere and all sorts of other things that had fingerprints), the police laughed at us and said "This isn't CSI", and a detective laughed at us and said "well, it's just dogs and cats" No regard to it being a legit business and that it is a well respected charity and business. THIS TIME they did all that. This police department is responsive, is taking it seriously.

Our new mayor and our new police chief and all involved have been professional, concerned and have followed through with the process. They have good information and are working on the situation. The criminal, I am fairly sure is the same one who hit us in the past, and is a street person who was in the area, left and is now back.

We are not going to ask for our volunteers to be vigilante fighters and risk their safety for this. We are working to repair the damages as donations come in. We could file an insurance claim, but our deductible is high, and our last insurance cancelled on us due to previous claims from burglars. We are trying to avoid that. We will if we must, but we sure don't need to lose our insurance coverage right now.

ADDITIONALLY! please be careful of who you donate towards. If an organization is a 501c3, you can look up their 990 tax returns and see where they spend their money. In today's economy, our dollars are hard to come by. If you donate to an independent rescuer, check them out. There are good ones and bad ones. It takes A LOT of work to be a 501c3, with CPA's and paperwork on money in and out. This is important to protect the public. There is currently a bad one who is slandering us on this recent activity, this independent rescuer has had multiple bankruptcies. While the option for a bankruptcy is needed and I am in no way discrediting this, but if you are donating to someone who can not manage their own funds and file MANY TIMES for bankruptcy, I would think twice about giving them your hard earned dollars, because you have no way to know where your money goes.