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Best Friends intake volunteers in Los Angeles are specially trained to evaluate and pull animals from LA's six city shelters to come to Best Friends.

Foster homes for dogs and cats save pets' lives in a tangible way by freeing up space in shelters. Fostering animals provides other benefits, too.

An ori-pei breeder dog and her puppies are rescued from a puppy mill and receive help. The ori-pei breed is created from crossing a shar-pei and pug.

Deserving senior cat finds a family to dote on him.

Volunteering at Best Friends with their granddaughter has led older couple to help coordinate Austin's Strut Your Mutt.

Best Friends Animal Society helps the towns of Escalante and Boulder in Southern Utah with trap neuter return (TNR)

Rhode Island bill passes that outlaws dog breed discriminatory legislation and embraces community safety.

Kitten from Roosevelt, Utah, at an adoption event had distemper, but rescue groups pull together to save other cats possibly exposed to the disease.

Couple from Nebraska adopt a black Lab puppy from Best Friends. After training and socialization, he is now a therapy dog.

Musician Neko Case teams up with Best Friends Animal Society to help save shelter pets with a new public service announcement (PSA) and more.

Blue and gold macaw parrot is perfect despite her birth defects: feet problems, malformed ears, and inability to hold her head upright.

With support from the Ronald and Catherine Gershman Foundation, Best Friends' No-Kill Los Angeles (NKLA) Pet Adoption Center opens in West LA.

Best Friends takes five pigs from Ironwood Pig Sanctuary, which was running at capacity, to help them find homes.

Rescued in the Michael Vick dogfighting bust, Ray the Vicktory dog passes his Canine Good Citizen test and is now in a foster-to-adopt home.

San Diego, California, passes legislation enacting a pet sale ban, which will end the selling of dogs and cats from mills.