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About Us
NFFAR: Second Chance Homes for NJ's Cats & Dogs
The National Foundation for Animal Rescue (NFFAR) is a no-kill animal rescue organization based in northern New Jersey. Our purpose is to provide sanctuary, medical assistance, foster homes, and adoption to abandoned, missing, feral, abused, and neglected animals. We serve the New Jersey metro area and also assist animals and people in other states.
Almost all the animals we rescue require immediate medical attention. NFFAR never turns away an animal due to the expense involved in returning them to good health. Each case is evaluated, with the animal’s best interest as the number one priority. Our adoptable rescued pets are evaluated for temperament, tested for disease, vaccinated, spayed or neutered (age-appropriate), and microchipped. They receive flea/tick preventative, as well as de-worming medications. NFFAR provides these animals with loving foster homes, many of which have children, cats, dogs and other pets, allowing our foster pets to be exposed to a variety of environments. We look for adopters who understand that pets should be family members, and that a commitment to a pet is a thoughtful, lifetime promise. We never want these animals to experience being unloved or uncared for, ever again.
Our Mission
NFFAR believes that no animal should be killed because it is homeless.
Success Story - Piper
On an August evening in 2016 a request for assistance was made by a woman we had helped in the past. A six-week-old calico kitten was found wedged in a pipe 6 feet underground behind her neighbor’s house. She and the neighbors were gathered around the opening to the pipe, which transversed water from the house downspout pipe into the steel underground conduit. The kitten, who had probably been in the pipe for hours, was crying and not able to move. It took NFFAR’s TROT three hours to extricate her from a certain death. Little Piper has since been adopted into a permanent loving home!