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Help dogs like Holmes find happiness and homes

Make a gift today and help twice as many homeless pets across the country.
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Happily-ever-afters

Feel all the feels with these stories of hope and healing.
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Calming care for a pup with special needs

When Kona arrived at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, she spun in circles compulsively. Now, zoomies are the only spinning she’s doing in her new home.
Now she's back home
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From shelter pup to service dog

After getting a second chance, Preciosa would change one man’s life forever.
Now they're a team
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Mom, puppies rescued after tornadoes touch down

Te Fiti overcame her own fears to keep her four pups healthy and safe.
Now she's found love
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Why people love dogs — and they love us right back

Canine cognition expert Brian Hare, who’s featured in Netflix’s Inside the Mind of a Dog, explains just how unique our relationship with dogs is.
How dogs became ‘human’s best friend’
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Celebrating our best friends on International Dog Day

Let’s be as good a friend to dogs as they have been to us
Let's do something for them
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Working together to fill pets’ bellies

A new partnership with Blue Buffalo ensures that dogs and cats at Best Friends locations around the country will get all the food and treats they need.
Providing support in many ways
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We can make every shelter and community no-kill in 2025

In 2023, 415,000 dogs and cats were killed in our nation’s shelters.
Help Save Them All
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Natural disaster preparedness for families with pets

Make plans to care for your pets during a natural disaster.
Learn What to Do
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Saving lives

We ensure second chances to pets at our sanctuary and lifesaving centers, even as we expand programs nationwide that keep animals out of shelters in the first place.
Saving lives
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Standing with shelters

We work to save more lives faster by providing shelters and rescue groups with ways to collaborate and connect so they can increase the number of animals they can rehome in their communities.
Standing with shelters
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Teaming up

We're right there with you as you make a better future for homeless cats and dogs, giving you the support you need to care for your pets and the pets and people in your community.
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Who We Are

We started 40 years ago with a no-kill sanctuary in Utah. Today, we’re helping homeless pets in every corner of the country.

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Working Together

All across America, pets in shelters are connected with loving new families, increasing the national save rate from 70.7% in 2016 to 83% in 2023.

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Our Impact

Since 2016, shelters that have engaged with Best Friends have had a two times greater lifesaving improvement than unengaged shelters.

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Bring love home by adopting a pet

By adopting a pet from a shelter or rescue group, you’re saving the life of a homeless pet while also making space for another to be rescued.
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Act for animals

We’re saving more animals now than at any point in our history, but our work isn’t done until every dog and cat gets the chance to know care and companionship … in a safe and loving home.

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Is your community no-kill?

See how you can help your local shelters save more animals with comprehensive, up-to-date shelter and rescue group data for your community.

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Join the 2025 Action Team

Help create big change for the pets and people in your community. Connect with a local team of advocates today.

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Volunteer

Whether at the Sanctuary or a shelter in your community, make a real difference in the lives of homeless pets.

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Get shopping

Help save animals by purchasing items from the comfort of your home.

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Find a pet

Ready to bring home a new best friend?  Adopt, foster, or sponsor, and help a homeless pet find their loving home.

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Help animals all year round by making a monthly gift today.
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Choose a Sanctuary animal to sponsor. Your gift helps find a loving home, spay/neuter, and much more.
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