Emergency Response Stories

Best Friends is helping rescue animals and repair the local animals shelter in Galveston, Texas, after Hurricane Ike.

St. Francis Animal Sanctuary founder Heidi Krupp has died. She founded the sanctuary, where Best Friends set up Hurricane Katrina rescue efforts.

Great Kitty Rescue in Pahrump, Nevada, site of one of largest cases of institutional hoarding, is carried out with aid of hundreds of volunteers.

Best Friends Animal Society's search and rescue team searches and finds pit bull after Hurricane Gustav and she will be reunited with her family.

Best Friends Hurricane Katrina volunteer makes a documentary called ‘Left Behind Without a Choice' about the animal rescue efforts.

The volunteers who helped rescue animals after Hurricane Katrina gather at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary for a reunion.

Nevada district attorney files animal cruelty charges against FLOCK, the desert compound where conditions were so bad that 800+ cats needed rescue by Best Friends.

After their caregiver U.S. Army Sgt. Peter Neesley died while stationed in Baghdad, Best Friends helps bring a pair of Iraqi dogs to the U.S.

Great Kitty Rescue memorial service for the cats from the feline hoarding situation in Pahrump, Nevada, is held at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary.

Former president of For the Love of Cats and Kittens (FLOCK) shelter in Pahrump, Nevada, Sharon 'Sheri' Allen is charged with animal cruelty.

Dogs stranded after a Gabbs, Nevada, sanctuary failed are helped by animal groups, including Best Friends, in California, Nevada and Washington.

Best Friends saves two Iraqi stray street dogs after US soldier is killed. The Lab and her puppy are now living happily with a Michigan family.

Soldier Peter Neesley befriends and cares for two stray dogs in Iraq, and after his death, his family brings the dogs home to Michigan.

Best Friends helps with failed sanctuary in Pahrump, Nevada, and develops protocol to socialize scared cats into house cats using gentle persuasion.

Gail Takahata is an outstanding Best Friends volunteer, who has helped extensively with the Nye County Cat Rescue.