Dog Stories

Rather than attacking puppy mills directly, Best Friends' strategy to combat pet mills is to eliminate the market for commercially bred puppies.

This is a great benchmark to take us into year two of NKLA, we now have the stats for the rest of the year — and shelter killing at Los Angeles Animal Services was down for 2012 by more than 4,200 animals compared to 2011.

Ideas for saving shelter dogs shared at conference: foster volunteers for dogs with behavioral issues, volunteer dog trainers, and more.

Former laboratory beagle now giving comfort to Newtown families.

Read story of rescue dog who is high energy and loves tennis balls, and is now working to become a search and rescue dog in his new home.

Make the holiday season a little brighter for pets in need by helping homeless animals in your community.

Rainbow Animal Rescue and Bully Paws Pit Bull Patriots step up to help a pitbull dog in need who had lived life on a chain.

Join us to combat dog breed discrimination in Massachusetts. Read about how a pit bull type dogs are being unfairly targeted in the state.

Join Best Friends for National Animal Shelter Check-In Day and our ongoing work to help the animal organizations in need after Hurricane Sandy.

Four Ori-Pei puppies, a mix between Shar Pei, known for skin problems, and pug, known for upper respiratory problems, are at the Sanctuary.

Best Friends collaborates with shelters and rescue groups to save animals. This story spotlights Sevier County Animal Shelter and Enoch City Shelter.

Best Friends leads the effort as L.A. City Council approves ordinance that bans the retail sale of dogs, cat and rabbits.

Breaking news: Los Angeles City Council approves ordinance banning retail sale of dogs, cats and rabbits.

On a vacation, a high school student falls in love with a dog at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. A few years later, she takes road trip and adopts him.

Best Friends' national dog walk raised $1,280,365 for homeless pets, with over $866,000 of that going to 153 our No More Homeless Pets Network partners.