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
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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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 promote responsible animal ownership, prevent the spread of animal diseases, protect the public from dangerous animals and to protect animals from dangerous humans.
The Humane Society of the White Mountains will continuously improve the standard of care for all pets by educating our communities on quality companion animal care, and be the voice of the voiceless pets, striving always to stop pet cruelty and neglect.
SOCKS is dedicated to the felines with whom we all share our lives. We value treating them compassionately, with dignity, respect, and understanding. We care about their quality of life and strive to treat our feline guests as we would our own pets until they find their forever homes.
We are a government agency open admission animal shelter/control serving the citizens and animals of northern Utah County. We provide compassionate animal welfare, courteous customer services, and professional public safety.
Harmony House is an eco-friendly, cageless, no kill shelter for cats in Chicago. We are committed to exclusively working locally for best outcomes for Chicago-area cats.
Our mission is to help pets and pet owners in need through sheltering, adoption, education, spay and neuter, and community outreach.
We rely on donations for utilities, food, medication, and medical as well as helping with some of the payroll. We travel 2 hours from the shelter for vet care, and alters, we will also take the public pets with us.
To enhance the relationship between people and animals within our community by placing homeless pets into loving homes, offering affordable resources, and through humane education.
To improve the lives of companion animals by providing humane, individualized care and a chance to know the comforts of a loving home through advocacy, education, and support of those in need.
Protect the public safety of people and animals within the city and help stray animals be reunited with their true owner and if no owner has been found we help animals by having them vaccinated and altered before adoption. Educate responsible pet owner.
Happily ever afters
