
How you can help homeless pets
Everyone deserves a home — and that includes pets in shelters. You can make a lifesaving difference for animals waiting for homes of their own.
When animals don’t have a home, they’re at risk of being killed. In fact, a dog or cat is killed in America’s shelters every 90 seconds just because they don’t have a safe place to call home. But there are so many ways you can help change that.

No-kill is within reach, thanks to you
You can save the lives of dogs and cats in shelters in your community when you adopt, give, and use your voice to protect homeless pets.
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With your help we can save every at-risk pet in a shelter this year and secure a better future for our best friends.
Help your local animal shelter or rescue group
Best Friends is working to end the killing of dogs and cats in U.S. shelters by getting more pets out of shelters and into loving homes. Each and every one of these shelters needs caring people like you to adopt, foster, donate, volunteer, and advocate to help save the lives of pets in your community.
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Every action you take for homeless pets helps to save their lives and gets the country closer to no-kill; we’ll show you how.
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About Best Friends
Here at Best Friends, we believe that every dog and cat deserves the love, safety, and comfort of a home.
Whether their home is a big house with a fenced yard or a cozy apartment — or it’s a community cat’s safe outdoor space — every pet deserves to have a safe place to call home. That’s why we’re working to save the lives of cats and dogs all across the country, giving pets second chances and happy homes.
Just a few short years ago, cats and dogs were killed in staggering numbers in this country simply because shelters didn't have the community support or the resources to save their lives. That number is now less than half a million per year, but there’s still work to do to ensure that every dog and cat in America has a safe place to call home.
Best Friends also runs the nation’s largest no-kill animal sanctuary and works collaboratively with a network of more than 5,000 animal welfare and shelter partners, plus community members around the country, to save pets’ lives. Together, let’s bring them home and Save Them All.
We'd love to see your pet living their best life! When you share your favorite video or photo of your pet at home, we’ll use it to inspire others to bring their best friend home.