Stories

Reduced and waived adoption fee pet promotions generate interest in cat and dog adoptions, make no difference in how pets are valued, and help save lives.

With Best Friends' help, bulldog in need finds his perfect person and is adopted.

Little orange kitten rescued as a stray is showing just how smart, curious and clever he is. He is truly a kitten genius! Read more about him.

Dog gets intensive therapy and healing for his back problem at the Sanctuary.

Once-neglected horse in need receives needed physical, mental and emotional support at the Sanctuary.

New flight aviary is the largest songbird enclosure at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. It gives birds a chance to transition from rehab to release.

Best Friends grant supports trap neuter return (TNR) project to help stray cats in underserved Florida community.

Please join us at our Pet Super Adoption events, featuring hundreds of cats and dogs, coming up in New York City, Salt Lake City, and Los Angeles.

Couple doubles Sanctuary volunteer time as part of a cross-country trip.

Senior cat is motherly and compassionate, befriending and tending to other cats by grooming and reassuring them. She is a true nurturer.

When more than 4 million cats and dogs are killed in U.S. shelters every year, we need to be open to new, sometimes controversial, lifesaving ideas.

Thanks to new legislation, stray cats in Arizona can avoid the mandatory time hold at shelters and instead be quickly fixed, vaccinated and returned.

A red-tailed hawk comments on captivity.

A born leader, Grover the cat's calming energy keeps the peace, and he's a good role model to other felines of how to behave around cats and people.

Best Friends is one volunteer's sanctuary from the stress of everyday life. She used to visit with her dad until his death.