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Maddie’s Fund Stories
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Texas animal shelter’s total turnaround
Year-long embed program with Best Friends is over, and today the city shelter in Brownsville is saving so many more pets than ever before.
Read about their progress
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A well-rounded approach to saving more dogs and cats
Best Friends is working with shelters on new ways to monitor the animals in their care and get pets out of shelters and into homes faster.
Pets are heading to homes faster
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New programs help save more dogs and cats in Nebraska
Best Friends and Nebraska Humane Society are working together on programs and strategies at the shelter that have had a profound impact on lifesaving.
They now hope to be a guiding light to other organizations
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Intern makes lasting impact for Brownsville pets
Through her shelter marketing internship with Best Friends, Jazmin is helping homeless pets, raising awareness, and setting herself up for future success.
Residents encouraged to get involved
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Tennessee animal shelter’s rapid turnaround
Rhea County Animal Shelter’s save rate hit the no-kill threshold four months in a row, enabling a Best Friends embed assignment to end three months early.
Embed program offers a solid foundation
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A community unites for the good of its pets and people
With support from Best Friends, the city of Roswell, New Mexico, is reviewing how it manages animal services by making changes to send more animals home.
Embed program making a difference
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Helping animal shelter staff handle disease outbreaks
Best Friends’ national shelter medicine team guides animal welfare organizations through infectious disease outbreaks to save more lives.
Animals' lives saved
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Pet spay-neuter-a-thon erases backlog in Brownsville
A dedicated group of veterinarians and vet techs, organized by Best Friends, banded together over 10 days to spay or neuter more than 350 dogs and cats.
Read how they did it
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Faces of No-Kill: Baby Girl in Brownsville, Texas
Best Friends’ embed program supports a Texas shelter in treating dogs for heartworms.
Embed program saves lives
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Amazing progress at Brownsville animal shelter
With guidance from Best Friends, a Texas shelter dramatically increased the number of pets saved in six months, despite a midstream distemper outbreak.
Read how things have improved
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How a Tennessee animal shelter is saving more pets
Rhea County Animal Shelter is making strides toward no-kill as part of Best Friends’ national shelter embed program.
See how small changes are making a big affect
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Playgroups at Arkansas shelter let a shy dog shine
Kiba was standoffish around people, but around other dogs she proved she’s a social butterfly ready to put her best side on display.
Proof that initial dog labels can be flawed
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Q&A: Best Friends national shelter embed program
Michelle Logan answers questions about a one-of-a-kind program that places Best Friends staff in animal shelters to support them reaching no-kill.
See how it supports shelter staff and animals
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The new face of animal services in Fresno
Best Friends embed program assists Fresno Humane Animal Services in setting up a city animal services program.
See how the animals and people benefit
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Pine Bluff Animal Control makes huge lifesaving strides
Best Friends embed program helps Arkansas shelter save more dogs and cats.
Read about their big changes
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