This Thursday, November 7th, supporters will gather to help Animal Rescue Coalition at their annual Dog’s Night Out. This year’s event is in a new venue – Paws on Palm will offer a Bow Wow Bar – Yappy Hour at The Francis to meet and greet on the red carpet. 
Beginning at 5:30 pm, the event will offer glamour portraits for your pet, shopping, and oodles of treats for your four-legged partner.
While the evenings festivities focus on the lucky dogs with loving homes, Animal Rescue Coalition real mission is to help Sarasota’s neediest by providing much needed medical care. and furthering the message of spay and neuter to help keep our pet population down. This is Duke,
adopted from the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Department of Animal Services as a young dog but returned to the shelter years later when his owner became ill. Animal Rescue Coalition provided funding for the necessary medical treatment to reach the adoption floor.
THE ANIMAL RESCUE COALITION (ARC) was founded in 1999 by Ira Barsky and Ed Sarbey when they brought together leaders from local animal welfare organizations as well as Sarasota County Animal Services to collaborate and develop a plan to end the killing of adoptable dogs and cats in the area. 
The most significant aspect of this initiative has been the purchase of the ARC Mobile Spay/Neuter Clinic in 2002 which, to date, has spayed and neutered nearly 35,000 dogs and cats, thereby substantially reducing pet overpopulation in our community. Countless generations of innocent puppies and kittens have been saved from entering a world with no homes for them. Despite significant progress, there is still much work to do.
All of ARC’s programs, which are designed to reduce overpopulation, provide emergency veterinary care, and arrange fostering and adoptions, are facing increased demand for services, and more households than ever before now qualify for ARC’s subsidized spay/neuter surgeries. Animal Rescue Coalition continues to bring much needed public awareness to animal welfare organizations and strives for Sarasota and Manatee counties to become true no-kill communities.
ARC specifically supports the following initiatives:
- Reducing pet overpopulation.
- Increasing adoptions.
- Promoting responsible pet guardianship.
To learn more about Animal Rescue Coalition, please visit their web site. See you on Palm Avenue on Thursday!