The Next Step Adoption Center will be closed from December 22, 2025, until January 3, 2025. Our next fair will be January 4, 2025 from 9am-noon.
If you’re interested in adopting a pet between now and then, fill out a no-obligation adoption application and one of our volunteers will be in touch. It might be possible to work out a one-on-one meet and greet.
The Next Step Adoption Center will be closed on November 30, 2024. It will reopen December 7, 2024 at 9am.
Cats and dogs will still be available for adoption and can be met in one-on-one appointments. If there is one you’d like to meet, fill out a no-obligation application and a screener will get back to you.
The Next Step Adoption Center will be open this Sunday from 1pm to 4pm for a cat-only Adoption event! Come by and get your kitty scratches in!
ARFP’s focus is kittens and puppies 12 weeks of age and younger. If you find a kitten or puppy in need of rescue please email savapup2@aol.com. Make sure to include pictures and as much information as possible about the animals.
Alternatively, call 336-574-9600 and leave a message on the RESCUE line.
ARFP operates on a foster-home model. Kittens and puppies are placed in foster homes for care and socialization. Foster homes are limited in number, so we can only help as many animals as we have available foster homes.
You know you need stuff for your pets — food, toys, beds, cat litter, collars…. The list goes on! And Chewy.com is a great place to get those things.
But did you know that if you shop at Chewy through iGive, you can earn money for ARFP? iGive.com is a shopping portal that makes donations to the charity of your choice every time you visit select online retailers through the iGive portal.
One of those online retailers is Chewy. You can buy all your pet needs (or buy pet supplies for ARFP!) and iGive will donate 2.4% of your order total (not including tax or shipping charges) to ARFP at no cost to you.
As an added bonus, through April 15, 2021, iGive is doubling their normal donation amount to 4.8%. That’s a lot of money to help homeless pets!
Just follow this link to take part: Pet Food, Products, Supplies at Low Prices – Free Shipping | Chewy.com. You will need an iGive account and a Chewy.com account to participate.
Two groups of foster kittens have started Youtube channels!
Annabel Lee, born around January 2018, is looking for a forever home. She came to ARFP in October 2020 after having a littler of four kittens and being abandoned in a shopping center in Greensboro, NC.
All four kittens have been adopted! Now Annabel Lee is searching for her new home.
She’s sweet, loves to be petted, and gets along with other cats. Oh, and a fondness for naming her videos after feline versions of Bond films.
Not to be left out, a new group of kittens decided they want a channel, too!
This litter was found in the woods. Despite a lengthy search for the mother, she never returned. The kittens were then scooped up and placed in a foster home where they can get all the attention, love, and food they need.
Not to be outdone, they decided to do a daily chronicle of their life, including some exclusive behind the scenes footage.
Without further ado, The Chronicles of Kitteh!
UPDATE: RAMSES IS ADOPTED!
Ramses would love to take a moment to say, “Hi!”
First, his deets. He’s a gray tabby born on April 13th, 2020. One of four siblings, Ramses is the only one of his brothers and sisters who hasn’t been adopted yet. He’s up-to-date on his shots for his age and is eagerly awaiting his new home.
Ramses wants you to know that he’s a people cat. He loves people, whether that’s sitting in their lap, playing with them, or just sleeping contentedly nearby. He follows his foster parents throughout the house to make sure they know he’s there to help whenever needed. If pressed, he’d say his three most important skills are lap kitty, toy tester, and safety inspector.
One way he helps is to make sure that the brush is in good working order.
As the only foster in a home with four resident cats, it falls to Ramses to make sure the toys are safe for everyone else. Especially since the resident cats are all older.
Ramses also feels it’s very important that the people in his life don’t get hurt, so he makes sure they don’t fall down the stairs.
After a hard day’s work, Ramses does appreciate a good lap to curl up in to nap.
If you think you need a highly skilled people cat like Ramses in your life, head over to our cat page to learn more about adopting from ARFP: https://www.arfpnc.com/?page_id=91
It’s hard to believe that sometime late on March 6, 2020 or early on March 7, 2020, Daphne had four little kittens.
They’re growing up fast. They’re playing, using the litter box, and getting plenty of socialization from their foster parents.
They did take some time out of their busy schedule to pose for a family portrait.
And, just like many modern-day children, they have their own blog at: https://andinewton.com/journal/?cat=358
They also have their own YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/AndiN3D
If you’re interested in fostering puppies or kittens, please fill out a VOLUNTEER application — not an application for the species you’re interested in fostering.
Once you’ve submitted the form, a volunteer will be in contact as soon as possible.
Please bear in mind that young puppies and kittens are fostered in pairs or triplets to allow for proper socialization.
The volunteer interest form is available here: https://www.arfpnc.com/?page_id=462
It might be only February, but Fable the foster kitten is sampling some pumpkin. And by some pumpkin, we mean a couple spoonfuls.
Fable was born in late September 2019. He’s up to date on his vaccines and has been neutered.
Fable lives in a foster home with his sister, Rumour. If you want to meet them, come by the Next Step Adoption Center at 711 Milner Dr. in Greensboro to meet him!
The center is open Wednesday from 5pm-8pm, Saturdays 11am-3pm, and Sundays 1pm-4pm.
You don’t have to bring pumpkin, but Fable won’t complain if you do! 😉