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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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Alexandria, VA
We are proud to be the only cat-exclusive orphanage in Alexandria, Va. Our primary purpose is to educate and assist the community in regard to cat welfare, and to provide loving homes for the cats and kittens in our care. We accomplish this through outreach to the local community by providing information on proper cat care, behavioral problems and medical issues involving cats. Read moreRead less
Springfield, GA

To promote responsible animal ownership, prevent the spread of animal diseases, protect the public from dangerous animals and to protect animals from dangerous humans.

Lakeside, AZ

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.

Ft Walton Bch, FL

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.

Douglas, WY
It is the vision of LPHS that all Converse County dogs and cats are valued by their guardians and this value is shown through responsible pet ownership including providing proper medical care, spaying and neutering, and training. LPHS seeks to be a source for the public of Converse County to obtain educational resources to help pet guardians keep their dogs and cats in their homes. Read moreRead less
Kansas City, MO
KC Pet Project took over operations of the Kansas City, Missouri animal shelter in January 2012 and is the only "open admission" and largest animal shelter in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Within 6 months of taking over, the organization achieved official No Kill status -- something that had never been done in the history of Kansas City. Read moreRead less
Spruce Pine, NC
Mitchell County Animal Rescue is a non-profit volunteer organization devoted to the rescue and care of abandoned and otherwise unwanted animals. Our primary goal is promotion of spay/neuter for all pets to reduce the population of stray animals and the education of future generations in humane treatment of all animals. Read moreRead less
Redwood City, CA
We are a community-based non-profit 501c3 organization that rescues at-risk cats and kittens and finds them loving forever homes. We place our rescued cats in our no-kill facility, providing medical treatments through our veterinary clinic. We are committed to addressing the overpopulation of homeless cats by providing low-cost spay and neuter services for cats in our community. Read moreRead less
Pensacola, FL
Escambia County Animal Services consists of the Animal Shelter and Animal Control divisions. Animal Services works in partnership with the community to create a safe, healthy and caring environment for both citizens and animals. The division promotes citizen safety, responsible pet ownership and education in the reduction of animal overpopulation. Animal Control enforces and investigates Escambia County's animal control ordinances and Florida state statutes in Escambia County and the city of Pensacola. Read moreRead less
Whitehall, PA
Our mission is: To provide care, protection, and assistance to animals who are mistreated, injured, abandoned, or otherwise in need. To offer low-cost veterinary services providing all pet owners a place to get medical care for their pets To help curb animal overpopulation through our low-cost spay/neuter veterinary clinic, helping the community through both TNR services and owned pets. Read moreRead less
Lindon, UT

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.

Chicago, IL

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.

Mount Juliet, TN
The Mt. Juliet Police Department_s Animal Control Division is committed to promoting public safety and animal welfare through compassionate, professional service. We strive to protect both our community and its animals by enforcing local ordinances, investigating animal cruelty, managing public health concerns, and educating residents on responsible pet ownership. Read moreRead less
Andrews, TX
The City of Andrews is committed to an excellent quality of life for all citizens by conducting public business and encouraging initiatives which reflect the core values of the community, striving to develop diversity in leadership, and achieving a sense of pride through the proactive, forward-thinking and strategic development of policies and projects. Read moreRead less
Clarksville, AR

Our mission is to help pets and pet owners in need through sheltering, adoption, education, spay and neuter, and community outreach.

Burlington, KY
Our mission is to provide services which safeguard the public health and safety, to humanely house and care for animals in its charge, to protect the animals of the community from abuse and neglect, to end the euthanasia of healthy adoptable animals and to provide its citizens with information concerning responsible ownership. Read moreRead less
Ona, WV
Little Victories Animal Rescue is dedicated to saving lives. We strive to reduce animal suffering and to eliminate the plight of unwanted animals by providing sanctuary and rehabilitation to homeless, injured, abused and abandoned animals, guaranteeing their health and safety while searching for forever homes. We work through rescue and adoption, education and outreach, and spay and neutering. We believe each animal is an individual and deserves every chance of living a loving, and protected life. Read moreRead less
Monroeville, AL

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.

El Centro, CA

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.

Chicago, IL

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.

Collinsville, OK

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.

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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.