A view of the Best Friends Pet Resource Center in Bentonville, Arkansas
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Visit the Best Friends Pet Resource Center!

Located in the heart of Bentonville, Arkansas, the Best Friends Pet Resource Center is a first-of-its-kind, fully modernized facility that reinvents how dogs, cats, and even humans experience animal sheltering.

Our animal companions are an integral part of our family, and the new pet resource center was designed with that in mind. It’s a place for the entire community to connect with pets — a place to adopt your next dog or cat, explore resources for guidance or support with current pets, or simply to gather with and enjoy family and friends.

 

Take a 360-degree look at the Best Friends Pet Resource Center!

This 360-degree tour was created for Best Friends NWA by students at Helen Tyson Middle School in Springdale, Arkansas.

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Russell Bloodworth

Want to be an ambassador for the animals?

We need your help! As a volunteer ambassador, you'll give tours of the building, greet visitors, and help our team with selling merchandise and signing up new volunteers.
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Connecting pets and people of Northwest Arkansas

The Best Friends Pet Resource Center is more than just a place to adopt a pet. It is a first-of-its-kind, fully reimagined shelter that offers resources and services for both people and pets.

It’s a place where people can spend time with adoptable animals, take a loving dog out to explore Bentonville for the day, stop into our volunteer space to make toys for pets, find a pet to foster, and so much more. 

We'll also be providing vital veterinary care to these adoptable animals and to pets at our community partner organizations, to community cats, and to qualifying families in need.

See everything the new center has to offer

Vital veterinary care

Our clinic provides quality veterinary care for community partners and qualifying families.
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Help for the community

Our pet food and supplies pantry ensures no pet in our community goes hungry.
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Lend a hand

Check out our volunteer bridge, literally linking people to pets.
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A place to connect

Meet a friend or just relax with a beverage at Third Space Coffee.
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Lifesaving art

Enjoy beautiful sculptures as you explore the grounds.
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Meet your new best friend

Spend quality time with adoptable dogs and cats.
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Meet awesome pets, find your people

Don’t miss these great events.

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Amy Hernandez
Dog Behavior virtual seminar: Understanding Your Dog's Body Language
Learn to "read" what your dog is trying to communicate in this free, online seminar.
Sign up here
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Adoption Event at the Botanical Bentonville
Drop by Botanical Bentonville at 8th and A between 4 and 7 pm to meet some adoptable dogs and learn how you can help end puppy mills!
https://bestfriends.libcal.com/event/14378861
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Spring Market
Visit the Best Friends Pet Resource Center to browse booths of more than 15 local independent businesses, makers, and members of our creative community, and meet some adorable adoptable pets!
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Tiny Paws: Kitten Bottle Feeding Workshop
Learn how to care for the tiniest foster babies in this hands-on workshop.
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Dog Treat Lab
Drop in between 11 am and 1 pm to bake some tasty dog treats and learn cooking skills from chef Regina Bowman.
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Peek inside the Best Friends Pet Resource Center

The space features open areas perfect for getting to know adoptable dogs and cats, fun activities for humans of all ages, a DIY dog-bathing center, a café where guests can hang out with cats and kittens, a pet food and supplies pantry, and much more.

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Sheltering without kennels: The model of the future

There are no kennels or cages at the pet resource center, just one of the ways we’re redefining what it means to care for homeless dogs and cats.

All the dogs Best Friends takes in from area shelters are placed in foster homes in our community, eliminating the need to house animals in kennels or cages for extended periods of time. Every day, a selection of available dogs will visit the center where they can meet potential adopters and find a family of their very own. 

Shelters can be noisy, frightening places, causing some dogs to become fearful and stressed. But a loving foster home allows them to relax and learn to trust — and that leads to happier, healthier dogs who get adopted more quickly.

Foster an Animal in Need

Bright skies for homeless pets, thanks to caring donors

Contributors to our pet resource center aren’t simply animal lovers or donors — they’re life changers and history makers.

We offer our most profound gratitude to every individual, foundation and company for your gift to the center and for your shared vision that together, we can Save Them All.

See our list of donors
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Our community giving tree

Created by a local artist, the 6-foot-tall tree features a shimmering canopy of inscribed pet tags as its leaves — each one a symbol of generosity, compassion and kindness to the animals.

After making your gift, you’ll be prompted to add your name, your family’s name, your pet’s name or the name of your organization to your tag. 

Every time the tree’s tags sway in the breeze, visitors will be reminded of your extraordinary dedication to the animals of this community and to homeless pets around the country.

Add Your Recognition Leaf
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Be part of the future of animal sheltering

The Best Friends Pet Resource Center is open! Check out all the ways to get involved and help save the lives of homeless pets in Northwest Arkansas.

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Adopt a pet

When you adopt a homeless dog or cat from a shelter or rescue group in Northwest Arkansas, you’re making a lifesaving difference for a loving and grateful animal.
Adopt a Pet
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Foster a pet

Welcoming a pet into your home for a short time not only benefits that animal, it helps make room in shelters for more cats and dogs in need.
Foster a Pet
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Volunteer to help save pets

From socializing shy cats to walking dogs to driving pets to and from our clinic, there are so many fun ways to make a lifesaving difference.
Become a Volunteer

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Location and parking 

Best Friends Pet Resource Center in NW Arkansas
1312 Melissa Dr    
Bentonville, AR 72712

The pet resource center is in the heart of the Bentonville greenspace that will become the 8th Street Gateway Park. Parking is available at the center.  

Pet resource center hours    
11 a.m. to 7 p.m., seven days a week

Phone
(479) 974-1363

 

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