Stories

Review of beginnings and history of trap-neuter-return (TNR) in Utah, and how support was incrementally gained for strategy for community cat care.

Interview with Levi Myers, full-time cat caregiver at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, who describes what his day-to-day work is like.

Volunteer Denny Erardi finds her niche volunteering at Dogtown, helping homeless dogs make progress, at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Southern Utah.

Shelter cats participate in Cat Pawsitive clicker-training, learning to come when called, sit, give head bumps and high fives, and more.

Siamese kitten, who tests positive for feline leukemia (FeLV), is severely underweight, and has infected wounds, comes to the Sanctuary for help.

Kitten who was born prematurely and was the only surviving kitten of his litter gets help at Best Friends in L.A. and is then fostered and adopted.

Interview with Connie Murphy who volunteers with baby kittens at Best Friends in Los Angeles. She describes what it's like to bottle-feed a newborn.

Texas & California make up about 25 percent of the shelter animal killing happening in the US. Best Friends helps implement strategies to change this.

Best Friends CEO Julie Castle shares stories of her two dogs, Shadow a German shepherd and a small spaniel-type dog Stanley, who are best friends.

Rescued from an abandoned shed when she was a puppy, rescued dog, who is blind, becomes a therapy dog. Read how she comforts children.

Persian cat with dirty fur, runny eyes and nose, stenotic nares (closed nostril openings), and teeth problems gets help and is then adopted.

Deaf senior dog, with a benign mass on her ear and skin allergies, receives medical help and is then fostered and adopted. Read the sweet story.

Best Friends animal adoption specialist Lauren Kehoe explains why dog adoption is so rewarding by sharing two of her favorite adoption stories.

New Pixar 9-minute film called ‘Kitbull' is about the friendship of a stray kitten and an abused pit bull dog. Spoiler alert: It has a happy ending.

Paralyzed, incontinent kitten and another kitten who battled a parasitic infection and lost muscle mass in his legs receive physical therapy.