Caring for Pets Stories

Renovation of Marshall's Piggy Paradise is complete, making area more functional and welcoming for pigs at Best Friends. Read about the improvements.

Humane Society of Blue Ridge gets help from Best Friends and Cold Nose College with a black Labrador retriever who was reactive towards other dogs.

Dog has behavioral issues due to her energy - mainly jumping and mouthing. She receives training to learn how to be calmer and well-mannered.

Domestic turkey is rescued after being found wandering along a busy highway in the desert. She turns out to be tame and people-oriented.

Genevieve Hannon completes internship with cats at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, focused on health, care, diseases, and feline behavior and training.

The Sanctuary has a new suite for FeLV discordant cats. These cats test positive on one test and negative on another for the feline leukemia virus.

Pitbull mix from dogfighting bust is a bit shy, but wearing clothes helps her to feel more comfortable around new people and in new situations.

It is possible to walk roosters and ducks on a harness. Really! Learn all about walking birds and what it's like. (Hint: it's like walking a cat.)

Cat with panleukopenia, who had an upper respiratory infection and then diarrhea, is saved after receiving a blood transfusion from other cats.

Shy Husky who was chained up is rescued by Dogs Deserve Better and comes to the Sanctuary where she receives fostering, training and rehabilitation.

Alfie the cat came from a hoarding situation and doesn't much like people. He is a cat's cat: intuitive, sensitive and altruistic towards other cats.

Cocker Spaniel Rescue of Austin and San Antonio, with funding from Best Friends, helps a cocker spaniel with mammary tumors and other medical issues.

Best Friends pet adoption promotion helps a special-needs poodle with visual impairment from All the Same Wild and Tame Animal Sanctuary find a home.

Dog enrichment in the form of games keeps your dog mentally and emotionally youthful. Here are ideas for canine brain games.

Once abused and abandoned, horse gets help and then pays it forward by helping and providing companionship for a socially awkward, blind horse.