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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.
Smiling person sitting in front of Best Friends Pet Adoption Center in Salt Lake City with a dog

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.
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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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Saint Petersburg, FL
Pet Pal's mission is to rescue animals from shelters that may otherwise not live due to time limitations, illness, injury or lack of socialization/training.We are a no-kill shelter that promotes responsible pet ownership.We work well with our community partners to ensure the survival of animals whose fate could be determined merely by the lack of resources. Read moreRead less
Valley, AL
The purpose of the Chattahoochee Humane Society is to enhance the lives of companion animals through programs designed to prevent cruelty to animals, promote responsible pet ownership, and reduce the number of unwanted animals by promoting spaying and neutering for companion animals and to provide shelter to unwanted animals in the Chambers County, Alabama/West Point, Georgia area. Read moreRead less
Cambridge, MD
Baywater Animal Rescue, a No Kill humane organization, is dedicated to the principle that every animal deserves to live. By working with people, implementing life-saving programs, and treating each life as precious, we have created an organization that positively effects the lives of countless animals and the people that care about them. We also work to keep pets in their homes by providing resources for our community. Read moreRead less
Jacksonville, FL
The Animal Care and Protective Services Division ensures that animals are properly treated and controlled. For many residents, its most important function is to serve as a source for healthy, adoptable pets. The division implements and enforces laws, regulations, codes and procedures concerning the treatment of domesticated animals. It also enforces laws dealing with control of wild animals. Animal Care and Prot... Read moreRead less
Gloucester, VA

To Improve life for all animals by providing temporary shelter compassionate care community support and education.

Corinth, MS
Our shelter will provide a safe place for the homeless and unwanted animals of Alcorn County. We will provide food, medical attention, loving care, and a sanitary shelter for adoptable animals until we find them a home. Our vision is to end the needless killing of homeless pets and help control pet overpopulation in our community through rescue and successful spay/neuter programs. Read moreRead less
Burley, ID

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Niagara Falls, NY
To prevent cruelty to all animals through public education and to provide love, care, shelter and advocacy to all animals in our community. We are committed to a no-kill philosophy, embracing the practices of rehabilitating, fostering and re-homing companion animals in need and to preventing their overpopulation through community outreach. Read moreRead less
Reeds Spring, MO
The Tri-Lakes Humane Society is a local non-profit organization that provides shelter for lost, abandoned and unwanted animals while actively seeking loving, permanent homes for them. We give every animal that comes to us as much time as funding and space allow to find a new home. We advocate the humane treatment of all animals, each animal adopted from our Society is spayed or neutered according to State law. We encourage spaying and neutering of all domestic animals through educational programs within the community, and we encourage other opportunities for interaction between the Humane Society, its' animals and the community Read moreRead less
Alpine, TX
Alpine Animal Services (AAS), a department of the City of Alpine, is under the direction of the Alpine Police Department.AAS serves the community of Alpine, Texas by maintaining and operating the City of Alpine Animal Shelter.AAS provides the adoption of shelter pets and enforcement of animal control laws within the City of Alpine limits.Community engagement is also important with programs such as low-cost microchips and pet cremations when that sad time comes for the family pet. Read moreRead less
Bardstown, KY
Our mission is to make BIG changes for the lives of the animals in our SMALL rural town. Our goal is to save more lives than ever before with spreading awareness, sharing their stories and put a light onto how amazing and special animals are, and that their lives and well being matter too. Every animal that comes into our care will be loved, cared for and never know suffering. Read moreRead less
Sparta, KY

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Everman, TX

Working together with compassion to ensure healthy and safe pets and people through education and community.

Washington Court House, OH
The Fayette County Humane Society (FCHS) is dedicated to ending the needless suffering of unwanted pets through our aggressive spay/neuter program. We are also dedicated to rescuing homeless animals in Fayette and its surrounding counties. We test, vaccinate, and have all our rescued pets spayed or neutered. Read moreRead less
Manteo, NC
The Outer Banks SPCA is an open admission animal shelter and services division on the coast of North Carolina. The organization holds itself to high standards of care and maintains expectations of excelence through progressive vision and action. The Outer Banks SPCA is dedicated to exceptionally high life release rates through our partnerships, rescue and adoption programs. Read moreRead less
Sorrento, LA

The shelter exists to provide humane sheltering and high quality medical care for stray, unwanted, abused and neglected animals and to find loving, lifelong homes for orphaned pets.

Huron, SD

Our mission is to provide a safe haven for animals in need and to promote spaying and neutering as well as educating the community on the responsibilities of responsible pet ownership.

Indianapolis, IN
The Humane Society of Indianapolis is the leading voice for the welfare of animals and improving their quality of life. IndyHumane is the first choice in providing direct services for shelter cats and dogs, including adoption, foster home placement, behavior training, appropriate medical care, and affordable spay/neuter services. As the voice for the animals, IndyHumane brings together like-minded animal-focused ind... Read moreRead less
Salisbury, MD

The Humane Society of Wicomico County is dedicated to saving the lives of at risk animals, and matching pets with their forever families while providing premier temporary care and shelter for the animals in our community.

Morgantown, KY

Our mission is to improve the quality of life for animals in Butler County through community outreach with an emphasis on spay/neuter incentives to prevent catdog overpopulation. We operate the Butler County Animal Shelter in Morgantown, KY.

Huntley, IL
Animal House Shelter is a non-profit, no-kill 501(c)3 shelter for all breeds of dogs and cats. We rescue, care for, and find homes for homeless pets who arrive at AHS for various reasons, including: Abuse, neglect, or abandonment, Owners whose time, income, or situation changes, Animals scheduled for euthanasia at other clinics. Once rehabilitated and ready, they are carefully matched with homes for adoption or foster care. Read moreRead less
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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.