Cat Stories

Los Angeles foster homes needed for dogs and cats with medical conditions in order to become nation’s largest no-kill city.

Best Friends in Los Angeles has committed to save every kitten from L.A. city shelters between now and the end of the year, but help is needed.

Return-to-field (RTF) humane management models get stray and feral cats fixed and returned to their neighborhoods, bypassing the shelter entirely.

University of California, Davis' Koret Shelter Medicine Program director Dr. Kate Hurley promotes shelter-neuter-return.

Overweight cat is put on a diet and exercise routine to help her lose weight and reduce her risk of developing heart disease or diabetes.

Fostering a dog or cat saves a shelter pet's life, but that's not all. Learn about all the benefits to the animals and to the volunteer foster person.

Adopter makes her New York City apartment cat-friendly, with places for her kitty to play and hide, nurturing her cat's playful and curious nature.

Read an interview with Michael Moran, a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) reserve officer/detective and kitten foster dad to newborn kittens.

Kitten struggling to survive comes to the Best Friends Kitten Nursery with a serious infection and pneumonia and receives treatment.

Senior cat in the early stages of kidney disease ends up at the shelter, but is then adopted. Her renal disease is being successfully managed.

Read about four cats with urinary incontinence who require little extra care, are clean, and need to have their bladders expressed a few times daily.

Senior cat with kidney disease, in a foster hospice home, is adopted by her foster mom and moves with her to Nova Scotia.

Two senior special-needs cats (one extremely shy and toothless, the other with kidney disease, a heart murmur and pancreatitis) are adopted.

A new kitten nursery opens at the Best Friends Visitor Center in Kanab. Visitors can watch the lifesaving work happen through a viewing window.

Heather is a dedicated volunteer who really goes above and beyond to help our cats.