No-Kill 2025 Stories

Texas House Bill 2981, which would require shelters to work with rescues, would be a huge win for homeless animals. Act now!

New York Pet Super Adoption, hosted by Best Friends, helps homeless pets find loving forever homes.

Courage, creativity and a community commitment combine to make the goal of a no-kill San Antonio achievable.

Dogs, especially beagles, are routinely used as subjects for medical and laboratory testing. Read about Juno, a dog used for research.

Registration is now open for 2013 No More Homeless Pets Conference! Watch a clip of last year's inspiring closing address.

Despite his recent op-ed describing how to poison cats, Ted Williams is reinstated by the Audubon Society as a paid writer.

Florida House Bill 1121, which would be a win for feral cats, clears the first hurdle. Your support is needed today.

Getting a pet rabbit should be done with all the care, forethought and preparation you would employ in bringing home any new family member.

Best Friends' and other groups' shared goal of reducing outdoor cat populations should be basis for rational discussion.

Where are the Mike Vick dogs today? There is a reunion at Sanctuary planned to celebrate the resilience and spirit of the Vicktory dogs.

Adoption promotion highlights pets who need to be an only animal in their home. These are lovable 'loner' animals.

Nearly 300 Best Friends Network partner animal shelters and rescues commit to taking 4,000 rescued pets following Hurricane Harvey.

Many people don't know that their local animal shelter kills pets as a means of population control. We are working to stop that.

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.

Thank You! Best Friends directly saves or fixes over 90,000 animals in 2012.