Animal Service League

12/25/2025

From all of us, to all of you, MERRY CHRISTMAS!🎄🎁 May your day be filled with peace, joy, and love. ❤️

So happy for all the animals who we helped find their way into a home for the holidays, and wishing all the rest who wait patiently, a miracle for next Christmas. 🙏🏻🎅

12/18/2025

As per ASL tradition, the last of our giving tree tags are posted below. 🌲 Just to remind everyone, the ASL Giving Tree is an artificial tree that stands in the center of the shelter where we hang a tag with a photo of each animal currently residing in the ASL shelter. Visitors pull the tag off the tree of the shelter animal they wish to sponsor this holiday season. Your sponsorship can be in the form of a gift (toys, wet food, bed, shelter item, etc.) or a financial donation. These are the tags left after our recent open house.

We have more animals currently living in our shelter than normal this time of year, so please help us get all of the ASL animals sponsored! We can’t leave any tag behind! They all deserve a special holiday gift!

Under the photo of the animal you wish to sponsor, add a comment and write, “SPONSORED.” Only the photos without this comment are the animals still waiting for sponsorship. We can do it!

Labeled gifts can be left at the ASL shelter (10 Dubelbeiss Lane 14622) in the rear of the shelter in the brown donation box. Use the unlocked gate entrance anytime! To financially sponsor an animal, visit our website at www.animalserviceleagueny.org. Click on the ‘Donate’ button. You may also mail a check.

Gifts can be accepted through January 15.

Can you help a shelter kitty this holiday season? ❤️

12/07/2025

✨ TODAY!✨
The Animal Service League’s Annual Open House – Tails & Tinsel event!

Join us Sunday, December 7th from 11 AM – 3 PM for a festive day at the shelter! 🎄🐾

🐱 Come meet our animals (cats, dogs, bunnies, guinea pig)
🦎 Reptile friends (snakes, geckos, frogs) - NEW THIS YEAR!
🍽️ Enjoy wraps and beverages from Little Bits Café - NEW THIS YEAR!
🛍️ Shop ASL merchandise
🎁 Enter to win amazing raffle baskets
🎄 Visit the ASL Giving Tree and sponsor a shelter animal this holiday season!
💜 Bring a donation from our website wish list and receive a special goodie bag!

Every dollar raised goes directly to helping the animals in our care.

📍 10 Dubelbeiss Lane, Rochester, NY 14622

🌐 www.animalserviceleagueny.org

We can’t wait to celebrate the season with you—and our furry friends! ❄️💜🐾

12/05/2025

We are just a couple days away from our annual ASL Open House event! Here’s a small sample of some of the 20+ raffle baskets we will have that are loaded with awesome items from our sponsors!

Remember, if you bring an item to donate from our wish list, you will receive a ASL goody bag! Here is a list of our most wanted wishlist items:

Bleach
HE Laundry Detergent
Sanitizing Wipes
Hand Soap
Paper Towel
Toilet Paper
Tall Kitchen Trash Bags
Friskies Pate canned cat food
Chicken baby food
Churu
Wee wee pads

Hope to see you there! ❤️🎄🎉🎁

11/30/2025

✨ It’s Almost Here✨
The Animal Service League’s Annual Open House – Tails & Tinsel event!

Join us Sunday, December 7th from 11 AM – 3 PM for a festive day at the shelter! 🎄🐾

🐱 Come meet our animals (cats, dogs, bunnies, guinea pig)
🦎 Reptile friends (snakes, geckos, frogs) - NEW THIS YEAR!
🍽️ Enjoy wraps and beverages from Little Bits Café - NEW THIS YEAR!
🛍️ Shop ASL merchandise
🎁 Enter to win amazing raffle baskets
🎄 Visit the ASL Giving Tree and sponsor a shelter animal this holiday season!
💜 Bring a donation from our website wish list and receive a special goodie bag!

Every dollar raised goes directly to helping the animals in our care.

📍 10 Dubelbeiss Lane, Rochester, NY 14622

🌐 www.animalserviceleagueny.org

We can’t wait to celebrate the season with you—and our furry friends! ❄️💜🐾

Aid. Sympathy. Love.Since 1957, Animal Service League (ASL) has been assisting homeless animals in need. We provide vetting, aid and of course, love, to the animals residing in our cage-free, communal shelter “home” and foster homes, while they wait for their forever homes. We pride ourselves on...

11/28/2025

A thankful feast was had by all! ❤️❤️

11/27/2025

YOU did it! Our turkey is fully flocked and then some! So many canned food donations came in and continue to be delivered. All the shelter kitties will get a special Thanksgiving treat today! ❤️

We are thankful for all of you who follow, support, share our stories, and donate so we can continue to help the animals waiting to one day spend a warm, cozy Thanksgiving surrounded by a family in a real HOME!

From all of us to you, have a very happy holiday!

11/21/2025

Can food donations are coming in and our turkey is getting his feathers! Thank you to those who have donated so far! Let’s get this turkey ALL his feathers and feed the shelter kitties a special treat on Thanksgiving!

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Happy November! 🍂🍁 It’s our 3rd annual canned food Thanksgiving dinner donation drive! We have reached that special month where we look forward to a day of giving THANKS and having a tasty feast! 🍽️ Would you like to provide a tasty feast for a shelter cat this Thanksgiving? 🐈‍⬛

Our shelter turkey is missing some feathers, and we are in DESPERATE need of canned cat food. During the month of November, for every case of Friskies canned cat food we receive as a donation, our shelter turkey will receive a new feather. For every single can of food we receive, we will add a decorative leaf. Can we fan our turkey’s feathers and fill our shelter cat’s bellies by this Thanksgiving? We need your help! 🧡🧡🧡

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🦃 All canned cat food donations may be left in the rear of our shelter in the brown donation deck box or shipped directly to us at 10 Dubelbeiss Lane, Rochester 14622.

🦃 As we receive donations, we will add the feathers and leaves to our turkey.

🦃 If you leave the name of the shelter cat(s) with/on your donation that you would like to feed on Thanksgiving, we will write that name on the feather or leaf.

🦃 On, or after, Thanksgiving day, we will post photos of the cats having their feast.

🦃 Friskies Pate canned cat food preferred. 😉

11/15/2025

The Annual ASL Open House event is fast approaching! It’s the purrfect way to kick-off the holiday season and spend a cozy and festive afternoon filled with adorable adoptables, like these sweet ginger babes!

We can’t wait to see you there!

11/12/2025

Happy November! 🍂🍁 It’s our 3rd annual canned food Thanksgiving dinner donation drive! We have reached that special month where we look forward to a day of giving THANKS and having a tasty feast! 🍽️ Would you like to provide a tasty feast for a shelter cat this Thanksgiving? 🐈‍⬛

Our shelter turkey is missing some feathers, and we are in DESPERATE need of canned cat food. During the month of November, for every case of Friskies canned cat food we receive as a donation, our shelter turkey will receive a new feather. For every single can of food we receive, we will add a decorative leaf. Can we fan our turkey’s feathers and fill our shelter cat’s bellies by this Thanksgiving? We need your help! 🧡🧡🧡

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🦃 All canned cat food donations may be left in the rear of our shelter in the brown donation deck box or shipped directly to us at 10 Dubelbeiss Lane, Rochester 14622.

🦃 As we receive donations, we will add the feathers and leaves to our turkey.

🦃 If you leave the name of the shelter cat(s) with/on your donation that you would like to feed on Thanksgiving, we will write that name on the feather or leaf.

🦃 On, or after, Thanksgiving day, we will post photos of the cats having their feast.

🦃 Friskies Pate canned cat food preferred. 😉

11/10/2025

🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛HAPPY TAILS🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ Zara has found her forever home! We just l❤️ve when black cats get picked! 🐾🐾

10/22/2025

💔 Meet Tashi, our newest rescue at ASL.

He came to us from a local shelter after being found wandering and abandoned at a construction site — scared, starving, and in terrible pain.

Tashi has clearly endured a long history of neglect and mistreatment. When he arrived, he was severely matted, malnourished, and suffering from multiple infections from root abscesses in his mouth and face. His teeth were so damaged that they were literally falling out by touch during his exam, and he has painful ulcers in both eyes. We can only imagine how long he has endured such pain.

Despite everything he’s been through, Tashi is slowly beginning to trust again. He was scared, confused and untrusting at first. With gentle care and patience, he’s realizing that love and kindness still exist.

This sweet boy, estimated to be around 7 years old and weighing just 10 pounds, now faces several surgeries ahead. Unfortunately, we will need to remove his left eye and we’re hoping to save his right eye with ongoing treatment. He’ll also need dental surgery — likely losing any remaining teeth — and will be neutered once he’s stable enough.

We don’t take in many dogs at ASL, but when we do, it’s the ones who need us most — like Tashi. ❤️

This year has brought so many heartbreaking cases of neglect and cruelty. It’s overwhelming, it’s costly, and it’s hard to witness so much suffering. But we know that for one dog like Tashi, love changes everything.

Please keep Tashi in your thoughts as he begins his healing journey. We can’t wait to see the bright, joyful pup that’s hiding beneath all this pain finally shine through, and for the day when his tail wags freely, his eyes sparkle again, and he finds the forever home that will never let him down again.

If you’d like to help with Tashi’s recovery and medical care, donations can be made on our website. www.animalserviceleagueny.org 🙏