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