Adopt a pet and save a life
You can save the life of a dog or cat by choosing to adopt. In 2023, 415,000 cats and dogs were killed in this country’s shelters, simply because they didn’t have a safe place to call home.
If just 6% more people chose to adopt versus purchase their pets, we would end the killing of dogs and cats in our nation's shelters.
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 furry friend and bring adorable home today
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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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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:
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.
Friends of Upland Animal Shelter operates the Upland Animal Shelter in partnership with the City's Animal Control Division and is dedicated to helping every adoptable animal find a loving home.
Stray Haven is a humane society dedicated to ensuring the protection of animals through education and service. Serving Tioga County for more than 52 years, Stray Haven is a no-kill, 501c-3 charitable organization, relying solely on the generosity of the public to continue to provide care to the lost, abandoned, and owner-surrendered pets from our community.As the only humane society serving Tioga County, we take in more than 400 unwanted pets each year and offer several services and programs to our community.
The Animal Services Unit has a mission to balance the health, safety and welfare needs of people and animals within the City of Kansas City, Kansas. The George Lee Dunn Animal Shelter provides humane care for animals impounded until they are returned or reclaimed by their owner or adopted by a new family.
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.
Since 1995, Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF) has been dedicated to promoting the welfare and humane treatment of animals through rescue, fostering, and placement. We care for all animals, regardless of age, breed, illness, or disability and believe these precious souls deserve to be treated with respect. Our mission is to provide an animal-loving community, where pets are at home, not homeless.
Animal Control officers provide protection for animals against inhumane treatment and protect the public from diseased and vicious animals through education and complaint investigation. The facility provides temporary shelter, food and medical care to lost, stray or unwanted animals until they are reunited with their owner or find a new home.
Our mission is to make our community a better place for people and animals to live together.
Soul Dog Rescue exists to humanely control the pet overpopulation problem thru focused and aggressive spay/neuter programs in underserved communities. To partner with the communities where we work, in order to create sustainable change through collaboration and community buy-in.
Kitty Kottage's purpose is to provide aid and relief to unowned and shelter animals, to minimize disease and overpopulation through coordination with veterinarians for sterilization and vaccination, to promote animal well-being and assist in adoption of healthy animals for the community.
Hardin County Animal Services of Tennessee strives to protect public health and welfare while enforcing humane animal treatment. We envision reuniting lost pets with their owners; placing animals in caring and responsible homes; educating the community about animal responsibility; and controlling and maintaining the issue of unwanted, stray and neglected animals as humanely as possible.
Rockingham County Animal Shelter is an open admission shelter that strives to promote and protect the animals of our community by utilizing proper animal care and handling, providing shelter, facilitating adoptions, returning animals to their owners, educating the public about responsible pet ownership, providing a community spay and neuter program, and assisting with animal law enforcement in order to provide efficient and quality animal care and control services that also preserves both public and animal safety.
Improve the lives of pets and people through sustainable programs of education, adoption, and spay/neuter.
It is the mission of the Montgomery County Animal Care and Adoption Center to foster a culture of compassion within our community by being a valuable resource for health services, education and recreation for animals and their people.
Our mission is to find homes for as many adoptable animals as possible while also addressing the animal control needs of the community.
Alaska SPCA's mission is to reduce the suffering of Alaska's dogs and cats. Our vision is for Alaska to be a state where all cats and dogs experience emotional, physical, and environmental health and wellness. We provide affordable, high-quality veterinary services, including low-cost spay/neuter surgeries, vaccinations, dental, diagnostics, wellness, microchipping, and health certificates. We have an adoption center, pet food bank and a mobile surgery unit.
Through its many programs, Last Hope is attempting to reduce the tremendous cat and dog overpopulation problem on Long Island, encourage responsible and affordable pet ownership, and transform the public image of the typical pound animal.
The SPCA of NENC is an open admission shelter serving the City of Elizabeth City, and Pasquotank and Camden Counties. We conduct offsite Adopt-A-Thons and network with rescue groups. We work toward reducing pet overpopulation through spay/neuter education, in addition to working with area partners to provide these services. We have an active volunteer program and maintain a social media presence.
The Humane Society of Northwest Iowa is a full service no-kill animal shelter serving Northwest Iowa for over 25 years. Our intention is to help find loving homes for our animals. We provide services such as adoptions, surrenders, micro-chipping, pet actives/therapy, humane education, shelter tours, behavior counseling, cremation and bereavement support.
San Bernardino Animal Services is a municipal shelter and animal control dedicated to increasing animal adoption, promoting, enforcing and motivating responsible pet ownership, the humane sheltering and care of stray and unwanted animals entering the shelter and educating people to become better pet owners, making our community a better place for both citizens and animals.
Burlington Animal Services is a department of the City of Burlington responsible for enforcement of laws pertaining to animal issues in the City of Burlington as well as providing public animal sheltering and pet adoption services for all of Alamance County. Additionally, Burlington Animal Services administers the Spay & Neuter Clinic of Alamance County.
