Volunteer Stories Stories

Rachael Prenkert volunteers with pets at Best Friends-Utah and NKUT coalition partners, Salt Lake County Animal Services and Rescue Rovers.

Interview with couple volunteers Sandy and Herb Doscher. Herb volunteered with parrots, Sandy with dogs.

Q&A with Heather Ramsey who fosters terminally ill cats for Best Friends in Los Angeles.

Google employee Karin Magnuson is a star Best Friends volunteer, and encourages other employees to participate in Google's workplace giving program.

Preteen boy falls in love with special-needs splay legged bird, agrees to take care of her, and he and his family adopt her.

Being kind to animals is at the core of what drives various Best Friends volunteers. The kindness they give is returned to them tenfold.

The ‘Facebook ladies' come together from all around the country to volunteer with animals at the Sanctuary.

Best Friends volunteer Elisha Edge describes how adopting a senior schipperke mix inspired her to want to help other pets in need.

Teen Hailey Shah describes her experience volunteering at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Southern Utah, near Kanab.

Volunteers in New York help care for adoptable cats from Best Friends Animal Society at PetSmart in East Harlem.

One animal lover finds the perfect way to ask his girlfriend to marry him. Read on to find out more about the best wedding proposal ever.

Trevor Potter, a Best Friends Animal Society volunteer in Salt Lake, goes all out to help pets, doing any and every job.

Dogtown volunteers help train and socialize timid, reticent, shy dogs, a beagle and a dachshund. Here is how they did it.

Mindy Poortinga, a vegan cook and chef, comes to Best Friends and shares her passion and talents.