
Adopt a pet and save a life
You can save the life of a dog or cat by choosing to adopt. In 2024, 425,000 cats and dogs were killed in this country’s shelters, simply because they didn’t have a safe place to call home.
We know millions of households will add a pet to their family this year. If just 1 in 17 more of those families chose to adopt a pet from a shelter, we could reach no-kill nationwide.
So when you adopt from a Best Friends location, a network partner or one of the many shelters and rescue groups around the country, you’re not only adding a loyal and loving companion to your family, you’re helping to save lives.
Adopt a pet from Best Friends
In addition to running our animal sanctuary in Kanab and partnering with thousands of shelters and rescue groups, Best Friends operates its own lifesaving centers around the country.
Adopt a pet from Best Friends Animal Sanctuary
All the benefits of adopting a pet from Best Friends
When you adopt an animal from Best Friends, sharing your life with an amazing new companion is just the beginning. As a new adopter, you become part of an extraordinary community of people devoted to their own pets — and to saving the lives of others. Indeed, you become part of the Best Friends family.
We’re with you every step of the way to provide guidance and answer questions as your pet adjusts to being in a new home.

More places to find your bff
Best Friends is partnering with these communities throughout the country to help save their homeless pets, and you can be a part of that lifesaving when you raise your hand to adopt.
Help your local animal shelter or rescue group
At Best Friends, our goal is to get more dogs and cats out of shelters and into homes and make every shelter in America no-kill. 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.
Find an animal shelter or rescue group near you today:
Our mission is to promote the health, safety, and welfare of pets and people in St. Charles County through effective education, enthusiastic adoption, and responsible enforcement programs.
The mission of our no-kill shelter is to find safe, loving homes for abused, abandoned and
homeless animals in the A-K Valley and to educate the public about responsible pet ownership.
To provide a safe, nurturing environment for the stray and unwanted dogs and cats in the Blytheville, Mississippi County area until a home or rescue can be found. To educate the public on the importance of spaying/neutering family pets and providing assistance with the BLYHS spay/neuter program.
Preventing animal cruelty, providing refuge for homeless animals, promoting pet adoptions, in southern New Jersey.
We try to keep our community safe while finding homes for the strays. Cats that are taken in are re-homed to farmers. Unfortunately, we are a kill-shelter, so we try to work hard while keeping in mind our time limit.
In order to protect the public health and to effectively control, regulate, and provide for animals within the city.
The Jefferson ProtectionAnimal Welfare Services mission is to improve the community through the practice of compassion by saving and protecting animals, providing care and treatment, through education, advocate for their welfare and to enhance the human-animal bond.
The mission of HPHS is to end animal homelessness and neglect by increasing adoptions of unwanted dogs and cats in Modoc County and sponsoring a viable spay and neuter program. We sterilize free roaming cats and dogs and assist low income owners to sterilize their animals.
A.W.O.L (Animals With Our Love) is a volunteer organization existing to build a community of caring by helping pets & educating people. Our main objective is preventing cruelty & neglect to animals, and providing shelter to lost & unwanted animals.