Stories

Longtime Best Friends volunteer goes from toiling behind a desk to working with animals.

There are many opportunities to volunteer with Best Friends Pet Adoption and Spay/Neuter Center in Los Angeles, whether you're near the shelter or not.

Teaching cats to respond to a clicker by rewarding them with food has various benefits and makes them more adoptable. Read about cat clicker training.

Help end discrimination against pitbulls in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

German shepherd has reactivity to people issues. Best Friends trainer helps Mid-Atlantic German Shepherd Rescue with training for him.

Competing shelter bills — one that has the best interests of animals in mind and the other that doesn't — go head to head in New York.

Best Friends grant awarded to Badger Rescue Animal Transport Services that’s saved over 5,000 animals. And counting.

Best Friends' lifesaving cat program Four Directions helps feral cats in Southern Utah and Northern Arizona, providing trap neuter return (TNR).

Dog who likely survived distemper has a rhythmic bouncing probably caused by the disease, but that doesn't slow her down or dampen her love of life.

Ohio governor John Kasich signs House Bill 14 into law, ending the only statewide dog breed discrimination in the United States.

L.A. Love & Leashes "pet store," offering dogs and cats for adoption, opens in Westside Pavilion Mall in Los Angeles, California.

Mother and son visit Best Friends Animal Society Pet Adoption and Spay/Neuter Center in Los Angeles on opening day.

Ag-gag bills challenged as unconstitutional violation of free speech could make it illegal to video animal cruelty in factory farms and puppy mills.

Grand opening of Best Friends Pet Adoption and Spay/Neuter Center in L.A.

Adoptable dogs and cats from Best Friends LA are regularly featured on FOX's "Good Day LA" and "Access Hollywood."