Stories

Best Friends Conference provides inspiration and tools to help shelters and rescue organizations move entire United States to no-kill by 2025.

Mature, blind 19-year-old cat named Lauren Bacall is adopted into the perfect home where she will be loved and doted on in her senior years.

Roberta Monti volunteers with timid, fearful dogs at Best Friends in Atlanta, Georgia, helping to socialize and get them ready for adoption.

Tuco the black Lab works hard at training, including overcoming his food guarding tendencies, and relaxes by enjoying time in the dog park pool.

Ines Lopes takes a volunteer vacation to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Southern Utah, where she spends time helping and connecting with animals.

Best Friends awards Humane Animal Treatment Society a grant to help fund their spay and neuter program for pets already in homes.

On July 9, 2017, a car crashed into the Brandywine Valley SPCA's facility in New Castle, Delaware. One hundred pets have been displaced. Please help.

Shy heeler mix dog hit by a car suffers dislocated hip and a damaged back leg. He is recovering and getting lots of love.

Affectionate, happy and fun blue and gold macaw parrot with medical issues, the most obvious of which is she holds her head upside down, is adopted.

Why do people buy pets instead of adopting? A Best Friends survey sheds light on the barriers to dog and cat adoption.

Senior boxer dog receives medications, supplements and spa treatments (laser, hydrotherapy, acupuncture and chiropractic sessions) to feel his best.

DeLana and George Folz from Phoenix, Arizona, are longtime volunteers with Best Friends, having volunteered for over 20 years. Here's their story.

Cat with heart disease (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, causing a thickening of his heart walls) is receiving medical treatment and TLC at the Sanctuary.

Stephanie Etherton, a volunteer with Best Friends in New York, helps regularly with the adoptable animals at the PetSmart in Harlem.

Weak, covered in fleas and ants and tied to a fence, dog is taken to Charleston Animal Society. She gets blood transfusion and is now in foster care.