Volunteer Stories Stories

Volunteering at the Sanctuary has ‘transformational effects' for a criminology professor at the University of North Florida.

A volunteer in the kitten nursery at the Best Friends Pet Adoption Center in NYC, Milica Kostic is committed to helping newborn baby kittens.

City College of San Francisco dance faculty member Chelsea Eng helps start a dance fundraiser for animal rescue and volunteers at the Sanctuary.

Family loses daughter who loved animals. They request family and friends make a donation in honor of her to help the animals and continue her legacy.

Four generations of animal lovers take a family trip to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary to volunteer and celebrate milestones in their lives.

Lizel Allen and Tyler Bernius from Salt Lake City, Utah, who've fostered 100 kittens and two little dogs, get the opportunity to visit the Sanctuary.

Lisa McManus is a dedicated volunteer and pet foster mom for Best Friends Pet Adoption Center in Atlanta. Read an interview about her volunteering.

Volunteer calls her first trip to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary ‘therapy for the soul,' saying the visit filled her with love and peacefulness.

In honor of National Volunteer Week, we offer our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to volunteers for lending their time and talents to save animals.

Best Friends volunteer, who is a national parks guide, takes the most active, agile dogs from the Sanctuary on epic hikes around Southern Utah.

Susan and David Trussell are feral cat colony caregivers in Ogden, Utah, and Best Friends volunteers in Salt Lake City who teach about outdoor cat care.

Volunteers from Tierra Del Sol, which is dedicated to empowering people with Down syndrome, autism and other disabilities, help at Best Friends in LA.

Here are seven ways to Celebrate the Year of the Dog in the Chinese New Year, which include adopting a pet from your local shelter.

From Villa Park, Illinois, Billie Johnson shares her experience of volunteering at the Sanctuary and working for a no-kill society by 2025.

Married couple volunteers to help the animals at Best Friends in Atlanta. The husband and wife team foster senior dogs and more. Read their interview.