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PURPOSE of the organization

Many shelters do not have space for animals, especially cats. ACF looks for more people to provide temporary foster care to kittens and cats and covers some of the expenses of volunteers who provide foster care. The organization also promotes adoption of the entire family of kittens and promotes effective and psychosocial well-being with recommendations such as "don't separate kittens" and "one litter box per cat" and "add an extra litter box" and “provide safe spaces such as cat trees” and "provide running water with a cat fountain."

Our purpose is to inspire and educate citizens to step forward to acknowledge the emotions of animals and in particular to “keep kittens together.” Have you seen a mom cat with her babies before humans come to separate them? Keep kittens together. Don’t separate kittens. Put the whole group up for adoption together.

In the wild, kittens live with their mother in the bushes. So don’t separate the kittens if the mom is no longer with them: keep the kittens together.

Animals Come First, Inc., provides on-line, in-person and in-field training, as well as a mobile response team to assist volunteers locally in Florida and volunteers in communities around the globe in our mutual effort to protect animals, especially families of kittens. These volunteers are trained to bring change in their communities and educate the like-minded. Our classes include videos to show how to set up multiple cat litter boxes, recommendations about types of equipment, and reviews of water fountains, cat trees and types of litter. We also share tips about how to be more effective in providing a clean environment for the families of kittens and how to maintain the psychosocial wellbeing of the animals. We expect our purpose will expand to include other species of animals.