Southern Animal Foundation

12/02/2025

🐶🐱🐶TODAY IS GIVING TUESDAY🐶🐱🐶

Today is a global day of charitable giving! In order to continue to help the many homeless, sick and injured pets we rescue, we really need your support and generosity. No donation is too small, and you can head straight to our website at southernanimalfoundation.org to donate directly through our PayPal link. It’s that easy, and we really appreciate all of your kindness.

11/24/2025

As all of you enjoy Thanksgiving with your friends and families, PLEASE be mindful of your pets when it comes to these holiday foods. Our four legged friends cannot tolerate many of the foods we can, and can become critically ill if consumed. If you find yourself in this situation and they get into any of these toxic foods, please call Med Vet at 504-835-8508.

11/21/2025

11/20/2025

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The dilated pupils are a dead give away of the sheer terror and fear these babies have been living in at the abandoned Naval Center in Bywater. We have been working alongside Trap Dat Cat in gettting as many as we can out of this perilous situation before the demolition is scheduled to begin around December 1. We are DESPERATELY asking for your help and to please share this with every animal lover you know! We are covering the cost of ALL of their vetting, spay/neuter, microchips, medications etc. They cannot be returned, for obvious reasons to this site. We are calling on everyone to donate on our website through our PayPal link for their care and placement. We are working to tame the ones we think will be able to be placed up for adoption through SAF, and also working with other rescues to take the ones that are completely feral.  If you can help in anyway, either with placement or donations, please let us know or head straight to our website for applications and our PayPal link.

You can call us for more information at 504-671-8235.

Our website is southernanimalfoundation.org

11/13/2025

And then there were 2!! Sweet marshmallow was adopted last week, and his 2 friends are still looking for their forever homes. Jack, Skellington and CC watched him leave with his new family, and they’re patiently waiting for their forever home. Could that be you? Please head to our website at southernanimalfoundation.org to fill out your application. Both of these babies are so sweet and just want to cuddle with you❤️❤️

11/07/2025

🚨UPDATE!! Claudia was found safe!!🚨

🚨🚨Urgent help needed! 🚨🚨
One of our dear clients was struck by a car yesterday while walking her dog, Claudia, at Broad and Esplanade. In the mayhem that followed, her dog escaped with the leash still intact, and is now missing.
This is an urgent call to help find her dog. Our client is still recovering in the hospital and is devastated that her beloved Claudia is out there somewhere. Let’s help find her!
Thank you in advance for any help.

11/07/2025

This week alone, we rescued these three precious babies! The calico was found this morning on the Crescent City Connection bridge by an employee of ours on her way to work. This isn’t the first time she’s rescued one off the bridge, but we always pray it’s the last. Kitten season in New Orleans never seems to end, but we’re always happy to help all the babies in need.

We would like to introduce Jack Skellington, Marshmallow and CC❤️❤️ They’re all incredibly sweet, despite their rough start in life. Little CC is so calm, despite the traffic flying past her this morning on the bridge. She suffered a little bruise on her lip, but it’s no worse for the wear.

All three babies will be spayed/neutered, microchipped, combo tested and have age-appropriate vaccinations.

Jack Skellington is about 8 weeks old. Marshmallow is about 5 months old, and CC is about six weeks old❤️❤️❤️

For more information on these precious angels, please call us at 504-671-8235.

Applications can be found on our website at southernanimalfoundation.org

If you’re not ready to commit to adopt or foster, you can also donate toward their care on our website through our PayPal link❤️

Their adoption comes with 10% off veterinary services, a starter pack of kitten food, and three months of flea preventative.

11/04/2025

We’re so incredibly thankful for all of our clients and supporters🦃🥰

11/04/2025

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️SAFE AT LAST❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Welcome to the first day of your new lives, Candy and PollyAnna. We’re thrilled to have saved both of you, sweet girls. These precious souls arrived late yesterday from the hell hole that is the Ville Platte pound. Thanks to the amazing volunteer, Melissa Gibson, for her unwavering dedication to the poor dogs in that awful place that would never have a chance at life without her love and compassion for them.

Now it’s up to all of you to help them. These girls are the sweetest little angels you could ever meet. Both are so grateful to be alive,and it shows in their eyes. They are so calm and gentle, leaning in to our staff for hugs and kisses, as they get checked from head to tail today. Candy and Polly are bonded, but we realize they may end up in separate homes. They were so terrified In Ville Platte, and all they had was one another to lean on for support. However, it would be wonderful if they could stay together, at least for now in a foster home while they transition to life in a safe space.

If you have room in your heart in your home for both of these girls to decompress for a little while, please let us know. Of course, if you have room to adopt both of them, that would be their fairytale dream come true. Both girls are spayed, microchipped and vaccinated. We were told Candy was heartworm positive, but we’re running all the necessary tests today. Polly is heartworm negative. As always, we absorb the cost of the heartworm treatment, so there is zero cost to the adopter. We also provide several months of flea and heartworm preventative as part of their adoption. Both girls are about a year old. Candy is 26 pounds and Polly is 16 pounds so they are full grown and not very big.

If you’re not in a position right now to foster or adopt, please share their story❤️❤️
For more information on these two sweet girls call our clinic at 504-671-8235.

Applications can be found on our website at southernanimalfoundation.org

10/30/2025

Big thanks to

Gwen Mersky, Cindy Cruikshank, Stephanie Baxter O'Rourke, Tetiana Yorzh, Nicki Ortega Breaux, Steven Loyola, Robin Hymel, Jan Barnes, Karen Sue Lovvorn

for all your support! Congrats for being top fans on a streak 🔥

10/28/2025

With taking in these new dogs, and with the others currently in our care, we could really use some financial help. Without it, we can’t continue to pull animals from death row. We recently had to fund a very expensive eye surgery for a precious boy who found his forever family. All of your donations are tax deductible. We really appreciate it, and want to be able to continue the life saving work we do❤️ Of course, forever families are what we need as well for these precious souls.
You can donate on our website through our PayPal link.

https://www.southernanimalfoundation.org/

10/27/2025

These are the faces of despair, as they sit in a very rural kill pound. Both of them will be getting their freedom ride to SAF next Monday, but this is where we need your help! Foster and foster to adopt homes are desperately needed for both of these girls. The bigger one is Candy, and she is heartworm positive which we will treat of course, and the smaller one is PollyAnna and she is heartworm negative. Being heartworm positive in a rural pound with no funding, is a definite death sentence!! They are super attached to one another, so we’re happy to be pulling them out together. Candy is about 26 pounds and Polly is about 16 lbs. Both are about a year old. If you would like to help us by fostering or adopting, you can fill out an application on our website at southernanimalfoundation.org
We would love to see these girls go into a loving home as soon as possible and start their new lives. They’ll be waiting to meet you❤️