THE ANIMAL KINGDOM FOUNDATION INC.
Animal Rehabilitation and Rescue Center

A non-profit, no-kill dog shelter dedicated to saving abandoned, neglected, abused and slaughter-bound dogs.

The AKF Animal Rehabilitation and Rescue Center is fully operating on donated funds from the United Kingdom. Much of the medicines and facilities utilized in it came from the UK. A few corporate and business establishments like Pedigree, Inc., Philippines and Oxford Suite Philippines have also donated dog-food and towels. The center sits on a 2.5 hectare rented property with enclosed concrete walls. It has considerable numbers of kennel where rescued dogs move freely. Each kennel features covered shelter with concrete floors and wide open ground where the rehabilitated dogs roam and roll with gusto.

The lone holding pen where distressed rescued dogs are delivered has a feature sensitively built for stress-free hauling. Upon entering a double-gate, the back of the delivery truck levels up to a wall with mound of earth on the other side. Once the back of the truck is open, the dogs alight from the truck unassisted. This has been proven to be an effective and safe way of hauling-off frazzled and unruly dogs rescued from far-away areas.

Several closures were constructed with varied uses. There are pens for male and female dogs, for ferocious ones and for disease-stricken ones. The clinic on the ground floor of the main house is the major treatment area. It can hold services such as neutering, spaying, treating skin-diseases, surgical operations, vaccinations, confinement and recovery of sick ones, de-worming, control of external parasites such as ticks and fleas, mange infection and laboratory tests for fecal, blood and microscopic examination. Competent Filipino and English veterinarians handle these delicate operations.

The upper floor of the main house has features and amenities to accommodate friends of AKF. It is a fully air-conditioned area with rooms, hot and cold shower, complete kitchen and sala set with combined mixture of hard wood and tiles. The other building built for the staff features rooms with its own hot and cold shower and double-decked beds. The wide spaced sala and kitchen are fully air-conditioned. It has its separate laundry areas and a porch to welcome visitors. A considerable number of fruit-bearing trees, mostly mango, which give the whole area an aesthetic appearance, lined up side by side on the pathway and lead to the entrance facing the pleasing façade of the main house. The trees are taken-cared of and expected to produce fruits for harvest.

The AKF’s Animal Rehabilitation and Rescue Center is, indeed, an ideal place to house distressed dogs victimized by the illegal trade and to welcome animal-lovers who have passions to save them.