Salt Lake City Stories

Follow baby kittens week by week, from one to five weeks old, in the SLC Best Friends Kitten Nursery and become ready for fostering and adoption.

Cat with kidney disease was living outside as a stray, but now he has been adopted and is receiving treatment, medication and a prescription diet.

See photos of the cats and kittens who are part of a TNR project in central Utah to prevent them from ending up in the Sevier County Animal Shelter.

Salt Lake City adoption event saves hundreds of pets.

Held on May the Fourth (Star Wars Day), NKUT Super Adoption, presented by BOBS from Skechers, helps shelters and rescue groups find homes for animals.

Friend of a woman who is 94 years old and in an assisted living facility adopts a senior 20-year-old cat for her to provide her with companionship.

Dwight Schrute the cat is crabby and awkward but also kind like his namesake on the hit TV show "The Office," and that endeared him to his new family.

Hurricane Harvey rescue story about a dog saved after the storm and adopted by a patient couple who understands the trauma he has been through.

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.

Recently, Jazzy made an unusual request for a piece of stationery and an impeccable speller with opposable thumbs. We delivered. Here’s what resulted.

Best Friends' monthly pet adoption events are held at the Gateway in Salt Lake City, Utah. Adoptable dogs and cats from local rescues are available.

Dog rescued from dogfighting is in rough shape with ribs showing through her skin, fractured teeth, poorly cropped ears, and canine mast cell tumors.

Man finds a stray dog in dire need on the Salt Flats in Utah. The dog is now getting help at the Utah Animal Adoption Center in Salt Lake City.

Caring for stray cats in winter is a priority of Best Friends in Salt Lake City, which provides spay neuter, donated food and outdoor cat shelters.