
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 at TrustRescue is to unite dog lovers in a shared pursuit of ending unnecessary euthanasia. Through education, direct lifesaving, relationships, and innovation, we act with integrity, faithfulness, and love to ensure a brighter future for adoptable dogs.
Conway Animal Welfare is dedicated to the protection of people and animals in the City of Conway and rehoming displaced animals.
Dedicated to finding each animal a loving caring home, while helping to control the ever increasing stray/ intake numbers by providing access to spay/ neuter and microchipping.
Making Williamson County Tennessee better for animals through adoption, education, enforcement and pet population control.
It is the purpose of the Casper Humane Society (CHS) to find homes for homeless animals, to encourage spaying/neutering of pets, to prevent and alleviate cruelty to animals and to provide humane education to the community.
To provide our community with an animal shelter that shows compassion and respect for life by following a no-kill philosophy and by striving to provide the cats and dogs entrusted to our care with permanent, loving homes.