No-Kill 2025 Stories

Francis Battista's Huffington Post article emphasizes importance of prioritizing the lives of shelter animals.

Best Friends' medical director submits recommendations to the American Veterinary Medical Association asking to end the killing of free-roaming cats.

Best Friends' message will reach grocery shelves thanks to partnership with Luvsome and Abound pet food sold by the Kroger chain.

The Best Friends founders, a collection of mad geniuses and visionaries, inspired me to drop everything to join the mission to end shelter killing.

We are making progress to educate the public about the plight of pit bulls and change stereotypes about them.

As a mission-driven organization, tracking our progress with detailed metrics serves to keep us on track and make us accountable to donors.

Trap/neuter/return (TNR) is the indisputable answer to the feral cat question. Killing is not.

No-kill programs include many elements, though detractors sometimes make no-kill proponents out to be one-trick ponies.

Best Friends has concerns over California AB 2343, the proposed law to update the historic Hayden Act.

TNR advocates play Whac-A-Mole with TNR detractors who keep popping up with the same faulty arguments and stats.

Utah governor signs HB 97, prohibiting any local government in the state from enacting breed-discriminatory legislation.

Best Friends launches No-Kill Utah (NKUT), the final push to take entire state of Utah no-kill.

West Valley City is on verge of achieving no-kill status, with an 89.7 percent save rate in 2013.

TNR opponents are more interested in preserving status quo than implementing lifesaving programs.

The new Best Friends Clinic is a worthwhile landmark for our 30th anniversary and our progress for the animals.