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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.

Smiling person giving a dog an ice cream cone at the Best Friends Pet Resource Center in Bentonville Arkansas

Northwest Arkansas: Bring home your new best friend

When you adopt a homeless pet, you’re not only adding a loyal and loving companion to your family, you’re making room in shelters and helping to save lives.
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Salt Lake City: Bring home your new best friend

When you adopt a homeless pet, you’re not only adding a loyal and loving companion to your family, you’re making room in shelters and helping to save lives.
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Houston: Bring home your new best friend

When you adopt a homeless pet, you’re not only adding a loyal and loving companion to your family, you’re making room in shelters and helping to save lives.
Smiling person holding a dog outside of the Best Friends Pet Adoption Center in Los Angeles

Los Angeles: Bring home your new best friend

When you adopt a homeless pet, you’re not only adding a loyal and loving companion to your family, you’re making room in shelters and helping to save lives.
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New York City: Bring home your new best friend

When you adopt a homeless pet, you’re not only adding a loyal and loving companion to your family, you’re making room in shelters and helping to save lives.
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Be a hero for homeless pets
To celebrate SUPERMAN in theaters July 11, Warner Bros. Discovery is covering all pet adoption fees 7/1 to 7/10 at Best Friends lifesaving centers across the country and PAWS Atlanta.
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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

On any given day, Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, located in Kanab, Utah, is home to up to 1,600 animals, including dogs, cats, horses, birds, rabbits, pigs and others. Many of the animals arrive needing a little extra care and healing before they’re ready to join a family of their own.

When you adopt a furry (or feathered) friend from the Sanctuary, you’re not only changing that pet’s life, you’re helping to Save Them All.

 

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Not sure which animal or what kind might be the perfect fit for you? Please fill out an interest form for a dog or cat and we’ll point you in the right direction.

 

 

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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. 
 

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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:
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Peoria, IL

To operate an animals shelter which provides humane care for stray, lost or unwanted animals; to promote and enforce humane and responsible treatment of animals; and to reduce the number of animals born and ultimately destroyed.

Brenham, TX

Our mission is to improve the lives of homeless dogs and cats while also working to substantially lower the numbers of animals reproduced or relinquished.

Allyn, WA
The Humane Society of Mason County is a non-profit organization providing care and assistance to displaced or abused animals and control of pet and feral populations. It currently has a small office and veterinary clinic, a Mobile Animal Services Hospital and has plans to build an Animal Shelter and Resource Center to rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome animals in crisis. Read moreRead less
Wilkes Barre, PA

With the help of our surrounding community we educate about animal welfare, help find homes for the once abandoned and abused animals, and provide those without a voice the protection they need.

Norfolk, VA
The Norfolk SPCA has been serving our community since 1892 and has guaranteed adoptions as a no-kill shelter for healthy, adoptable pets for more than 10 years. Originally founded because of concerns about the mistreatment of workhorses, the Norfolk SPCA now shelters, treats, rehabilitates and re-homes household companion animals throughout Hampton Roads to give them the extra time and care needed to find that forever home. Read moreRead less
Lindsay, CA

The Porterville Police Department / Animal Control Division is committed to the safety and security of the community providing quality animal services with excellence, honesty and integrity.

Hayward, WI
For 24 years the Northwoods Humane Society has been serving the animals and people of Sawyer County and the surrounding areas. We provide a sheltered enviroment, medical care, training and socialization to those animals in need who are waiting for homes. NHS's purpose continues to grow and respond to the needs set in front of us. Read moreRead less
Council Bluffs, IA

The Mission of the Midlands Humane Society is to protect and nurture companion animals and enrich the lives of people who love them.

Walla Walla, WA
We work to eliminate the euthanasia of healthy, adoptable pets by ending overpopulation and homelessness. We provide quality shelter, spay/neuter, foster care and adoption for companion animals. We provide spay/neuter and humane education, animal control services and cruelty/neglect investigation service and develop legislation to ensure that companion animals have homes with responsible and loving caregivers. Read moreRead less
Talladega, AL

Talladega Animal Control Facility's main goal is to promote the humane treatment of owners and animals through education, advocacy and ordinances. We strive to make a better life and community for both our human and animal residents.

Cortland, NY

Established in 1895, Cortland County SPCA is proud to be a staple of the local community. We are a no-kill, private animal shelter that adopts out dogs and cats, provides low cost spay/neuter services to the public, and enforces animal cruelty laws county wide.

Parsons, WV
The Tucker County Animal Shelter is a county-operated No Kill shelter. We continually strive for the best possible outcome for each individual animal that enters our care. We focus on helping the community with TNR, spay/neuter assistance, adoption placements, and resources to serve the underserved. Our humane officer completes welfare checks as well as animal cruelty investigations and is trained to assist people in the best care for their pets. Read moreRead less
Boise, ID

he mission of the Idaho Humane Society is to advocate the welfare and responsible care of animals, protect them from neglect and cruelty, and promote humane education, awareness and compassion.

Atwater, CA
Our mission is to provide responsive, professional, and caring law enforcement services to all the people of Merced County. As a public agency, we provide prompt, courteous service to our customers while protecting their safety. We are focused on our goals and steadfast in our resolve to meet the needs of the various communities within our jurisdiction. Read moreRead less
Smithville, TN

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McMinnville, TN

We are a rural facility. We are trying to provide education about spay and neuter programs as well as the treatment of animals. We are making the lives of pets better day by day in hope of one day never needing a shelter.

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Not sure you're ready to adopt a pet? Try fostering.

Fostering a homeless pet is a short-term commitment with long-term impact. By opening your home to a dog or cat for even a few days, you can save lives.  

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About Best Friends Animal Society

Best Friends is working to end the killing of dogs and cats in U.S. shelters in part by getting more pets out of shelters and into loving homes.

We’ve come a long way since the first known city reached no-kill in 1994, and now we’re closer than ever to making the entire country no-kill. Today, roughly 2,500 shelters are no-kill throughout the U.S. — and 700 more are just 100 pets or fewer away from reaching that milestone.

Best Friends is committed to working with passionate people like you to save homeless pets through adoption, volunteering, fostering, and advocacy. In addition to our lifesaving centers around the U.S, we also founded and run the nation's largest no-kill sanctuary for companion animals.

Working together, we can save homeless pets in our communities and secure a better future for our best friends. Together, we will bring the whole country to no-kill.