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Dog missed critical socialization period (between 3 to 16 weeks of age), but her adopters are helping her to become less anxious and more confident.

PET AID Act bill will ensure dogs, cats and other animals are accounted for by organizations entrusted with their care after natural disasters.

A volunteer in the kitten nursery at the Best Friends Pet Adoption Center in NYC, Milica Kostic is committed to helping newborn baby kittens.

Follow baby kittens week by week, from one to five weeks old, in the SLC Best Friends Kitten Nursery and become ready for fostering and adoption.

Animal rescue groups come together to save hundreds of abandoned domestic bunnies off the streets of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Senior cat with FIV and kidney disease, which requires he be given subcutaneous fluids, and who sometimes pees outside his litter box finds a home.

Best Friends Animal Society's CEO Julie Castle is named on InStyle's Badass 50, a list that recognizes dynamic women leading social change.

City College of San Francisco dance faculty member Chelsea Eng helps start a dance fundraiser for animal rescue and volunteers at the Sanctuary.

Heartworm positive dogs at Best Friends in Atlanta receive treatment (antibiotic doxycycline and injections) and then are adopted into homes.

A favorite dog of shelter staff and volunteers, a pit bull who'd been waiting for a home for a while is adopted by a man who is charmed by him.

Can a dog and cat be friends? Of course, they can. Meet an adopted puppy and young cat who are best friends who love one another.

Harris County, Texas, where Houston is located, has taken their shelter animal save rate from 52% to nearly 90% in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.

Delta Airlines will not allow individuals with disabilities to travel with "pit bull type dogs." Pit bull service animals are unwelcome on Delta.

Harris County Animal Shelter desperately needs foster homes for kittens. Email Houstonfoster@bestfriends.org for information.

Julie Castle, CEO of Best Friends, shares the history of the animal welfare movement and Best Friends' plan to end shelter killing by 2025.