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2025: Let’s do this!
Best Friends Conference provides inspiration and tools to help shelters and rescue organizations move entire United States to no-…
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To adopt or not? A new Best Friends survey sheds light on pet adoptions
Why do people buy pets instead of adopting? A Best Friends survey sheds light on the barriers to dog and cat adoption.
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New Jersey declares 'thumbs up' for no-kill
Resolution 237, declaring the intent for New Jersey to be no-kill for shelter dogs and cats by 2025, has passed in the state…
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Another successful super adoption as L.A. gets closer to NKLA
Super pet adoption events and animal adoption in general bring LA closer and closer to being no-kill. The killing in animal…
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In Memory of John Fripp
John Fripp, co-founder of Best Friends Animal Society, has died. He was our first CFO and first chairman of the board. He was…
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Los Angeles City Council passes no-kill resolution
LA is on target to become no-kill in 2017, and in collaboration with the NKLA coalition, the city council reaffirms its…
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The right stuff
Brent Toellner, Scott Giacoppo, Tawny Hammond and José Ocaño join Best Friends Animal Society to end the killing in our nation…
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The Muppets take Manhattan
Best Friends New York Adoption Center opening today in SoHo as our next step toward a no-kill nation by 2025.
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Removing breed labels from adoptable pets
Best Friends and other shelters are investigating whether speculative dog breed identifications help or hurt the pet adoption…
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Best Friends NKLA initiative on target to create country’s largest no-kill community
Collaborative efforts result in Los Angeles city shelters achieving a record save rate and the city continuing on track to become…
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In Memoriam: Mark Dodge
Please join us in paying homage to the co-founder of FixNation for his service to our country and the animals in Los Angeles.
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New numbers reveal great progress being made toward no-kill
Our current research indicates 5,500 dogs and cats are being killed (euthanized) in US animals shelters each day as of 2017.
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USDA removes online database critical to animal welfare work
The USDA online database has been taken down. This was an Invaluable tool to research animal welfare inspection reports.
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Vicktory dog Denzel says goodbye
Former Michael Vick dog Denzel has died. He will be missed by all who knew him, but never forgotten.
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Nine years in: How the Vicktory dogs helped change the future for millions of dogs
After Michael Vick dogs were given a second chance, people and policymakers around the world began to see pitbulls differently.
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