This will be the first addition to AARF Animals Anonymous Relief Fund ... we support No Kill. My name is Tony Richards and I am the founder and creator of the FaceBook group. I have12 cats and hope one day to have a couple thousand cats, dogs, birds and whatever other animals need attention one on one .... I'm a songwriter with lots passion to serve something other than myself. I have many many friends who feel the same way that I do, and all together we believe in helping less fortunate animals. The idea of AARF is to create works of music for sale with the sole intention of donating 100% profit to animal organizations in support of their causes. The big picture includes a huge facility on a very very big piece of fertile and beautiful healthy land, with lots and lots of animals running carefree. Medical attention and shelter ideally would be donated but hey that would be in an ideal world. We only want to repay those poor animals who haven't got a chance for all the wonderful love they have given us. This society has created an animal unfriendly atmosphere and it's time to do something about it. It's time to stop putting down perfectly healthy animals because they are a burden to us. We need to adopt a whole new attitude about stray and feral dogs and cats.
This song was a request by my close friend and manager of 30+ years Joe Lennane, who shortly after requesting a recording of it passed on to the next world leaving a void that could not be filled. But he was a fine husband, father, son and incredible friend so this song became what it is. Little did I know it would become as popular as it has. And it was never released to the public and stayed pretty much on a computer for a couple of years. But people have asked repeatedly for it's release and so, let it be for a very noble cause. Many thanks to writers Bob Thiele and George David Weiss for this incredible classic and of course ol' Satchmo for the beautiful rendition. I hope this song feeds and shelters many many animals .... and with that let's get this AARF thing going. Alright buds. Just like we said we'd do .... let's get it on.
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