California
Help save homeless pets in CA
Shelters near you need help to save more lives. Every day, dogs and cats are killed in animal shelters across California simply because they don’t have a place to call home. Together, with your help, we’re changing that.
Best Friends is working with animal welfare organizations and stakeholders statewide to save every pet who can be saved and reach no-kill through California in 2025. Your local shelter is counting on your help. Now is the time to get involved and make a lifesaving difference.
Best Friends has a pet adoption center in California
The Best Friends Pet Adoption Center in Los Angeles features a boutique-style pet adoption experience with dogs, puppies, cats, and kittens from regional shelters. The Best Friends team has been participating in direct and indirect lifesaving with more than a dozen prioritized shelters across the state in the greater Los Angeles, Inland Empire, and Central California communities.
Join your California grassroots action team
Help create big change for the pets and people in your community. Connect with a local team of advocates today.
California Animals Need Your Help
Volunteer to save the lives of pets in California
With millions of animals in shelters around the country hoping for families of their very own, one of the most valuable gifts you can give is the gift of your time. For animals waiting to go home, your kindness makes all the difference.
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Find a Best Friends Network partner near you
The Best Friends Network is made up of thousands of public and private shelters, rescue groups, spay/neuter organizations and other animal welfare groups, all working to save the lives of dogs and cats in communities like yours across the country.
Each and every one of our network partners needs caring people like you to adopt, foster, donate, volunteer and advocate to help save the lives of pets where you live.