Network Partners Stories

Southern Pines Animal Shelter (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) has a pet transport program (EmBark) that moves cats and dogs to other areas for adoption.

Pima Animal Care Center in Arizona implemented lifesaving foster program that moved 5,000 pets into foster homes and engaged 2,000 foster volunteers.

Best Friends hosts adoption event for cats and kittens from Animal Care Centers of NYC (ACC) over Labor Day weekend.

Best Friends Animal Society and other shelters and rescues work together to help at-risk pets in the path of Hurricane Dorian evacuate.

Two semi-feral dogs, who had been at a rescue for 12 years, are adopted by a woman who has a lonely sheep who needed companionship.

Idaho Falls Animal Shelter has made great progress saving more dogs and cats, from less than 50% to 97%. Read how they did it.

After the mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, on August 4, 2019, puppies and kittens from the Humane Society of Great Dayton provide comfort to people.

Elderly dog, with a long list of health challenges and special needs, may be geriatric, but he brings joy to his adopter and is the life of the party.

With help from Second Chance Rescue and Best Friends, a senior pit bull, who loves naps and is really mellow, is adopted.

Best Friends Animal Society participates in the 2019 CatCon in Pasadena, California, as the official adoption partner. Nearly 200 cats are adopted.

Animal shelter employees are unsung heroes dedicated to the dogs and cats in their care, but they often receive little compensation or thanks.

To help dogs and cats affected by the Arkansas flooding, Gleaning for the World, a humanitarian organization, steps up with big pet supplies donation.

Best Friends Leadership Training Academy is a five-day hands-on course for animal shelters to learn strategies to save more animals.

Rachel Ray Save Them All Grant awarded to Austin Pets Alive helps organization save special needs pets, like FeLV-positive kittens and parvo puppies.

Best Friends dog training workshop helps Ivins Animal Shelter Adoption Center and Santa Clara-Ivins Animal Control in Utah with difficult dogs.