Salt Lake City Stories

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.

Two dogs from Arctic Breeds Rescue in Payson, Utah, attend the Sundance Film Festival to promote the film ‘White Fang.'

Humane Society of Utah's Home for the Holidays foster program helps get dogs out of the shelter for the holidays. Read story of one lucky dog.

Tuxedo cat with injured pelvis developed megacolon, for which he requires medication. He has been adopted into a loving, understanding family.

Couple adopts a second special-needs kitten with three legs (she's missing a foot) to join their family that already includes a tripod cat.

After their adopted pit bull died, Utah family adopts another wonderful senior pit bull terrier dog from Salt Lake County Animal Services.

Woman fosters litter with wobbly kitten syndrome, another name for feline cerebellar hypoplasia that makes the kittens unbalanced and unsteady.

Two deserving dogs are adopted into one home. Given celebrity dog names, these two are named after the Hollywood couple Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson.

Sarah Taylor is a Best Friends volunteer in Salt Lake City. She is an ambassador for Best Friends' mission, attends various events, and walks dogs.

Teen helps strays by caring for free-roaming cats in need and trapping felines for trap neuter return. She plans to start her own TNR nonprofit.