Stories

Welcome to the Best Friends Blog - insights, ideas and unique takes from Best Friends founders and staff about issues, animals, and the No-Kill Movement

Cocky the cockatoo has a bag of tricks just waiting for him to learn.

$150,000 grant program will help animals impacted by Gulf Coast oil spill

Sula Foundation brings hope and help to pitbulls and their families in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Download guides for living with and helping dogs rescued from puppy mills and hoarding situations and protesting pet stories that sell mill puppies.

Best Friends’ horse caregiver, adoption coordinator and volunteer coordinator Margaret Schreiber has traveled around the world, and relishes where she’s landed.

A chipmunk grows a luxuriant body of fur after being stricken with mange. August 11, 2010

Kids demonstrate how reading to animals is fun and helps them improve their reading skills as part of the Humane Education for Educators workshop.

Enterprising dog caregivers discover ways to help shy dogs get out and see the world, one step at a time. August 9, 2010

Rabbit caregivers learn how to create upcycled jewelry that they are using as a fundraiser for bunnies - a win for the animals and the environment.

University of Florida veterinary students hold pet adoption event to save all of the dogs and cats from Alachua County Animal Services in Gainesville.

Two new pigs make history when they arrive at Best Friends with their own dog. July 29, 2010

Photo of dog with a cat on his head cheers up a woman suffering from Alzheimer's and helps her remember some old memories of her family's pets.

Hudson Valley Humane helps beagles rescued from life as test subjects in a laboratory embark on a new life as beloved family pets.

Girl with severe dog allergies visits Best Friends, taking one pit bull on numerous sleepovers. Miraculously, she was not allergic to this dog.