Network Partners Stories

In the face of the pandemic, Best Friends Network partners are using creativity and resolve to save homeless animals in their care.

Hundreds of pets go from Best Friends lifesaving centers around the country into foster homes

Director at Joint Animal Services in WA found inspiration, guidance and support with the Best Friends' Executive Leadership Certification program.

A handful of animal organizations are recognized with Best Friends Network Partner Awards at the 2019 Best Friends National Conference in Dallas.

Best Friends intern takes her learnings back to Hopalong Rescue in Oakland, California, helping improve their cleaning protocols and foster program.

Partnership between Best Friends and The Animal Foundation results in thousands of cats staying out of shelters due to return-to-field program.

Pilot Larry Erdman with Pilots N Paws flies cats and kittens from Best Friends Animal Sanctuary to shelters in other states where they'll be adopted.

Moving animals from one shelter to another where they are more likely to get adopted, pet transports get an overnight rest at shelters around country.

Some animal shelters are reluctant to offer free (fee-waived) pet adoptions, but they shouldn't be. Here's why.

Forsyth Humane Society receives grant from Best Friends to help buy a new transport van to move dogs and cats to shelters where they will be adopted.

Pit bull and mastiff mix dog, who looks like a polar bear, is helped by so many people to get healthy (he was positive for heartworm) and find a home.

Even though it didn't seem like a great fit initially, yellow Lab mix, who is 70 pounds and heartworm-positive, is adopted into the perfect home.

Senior volunteer couple in their 80s help pets in need at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, Simply Cats Animal Center, and West Valley Humane Society.

Is that a shelter dog" is usually asked after an animal does something undesirable. Here's why misperceptions about shelter dogs should change.

Best Friends awards $50,000 grant to Gwinnett County Animal Welfare and Enforcement in the Atlanta, Georgia, area to support a pet retention program.