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:
SLCoAS provides services to unincorporated Salt Lake County, Herriman, Holladay, Midvale, & Salt Lake City. These services include animal control & sheltering services as well as low cost clinic services.
We believe it is our moral responsibility improve the lives of animals in our care and to place them in loving permanent homes. We provide necessary medical care, sterilizations, consistent training, and a safe and healthy environment with unconditional love.
The Animal Control Division provides protection of the public health for all citizens in the community; promotes education to the public on humane treatment and care of all animals; and enforces the laws concerning all animals in a competent, courteous, and timely manner.
Courteously and compassionately promote the health, safety and welfare of citizens and animals through regulation, protection, and education.
Animal resource center dedicated to the care sheltering of lost or abandoned animals within Nye County.
The Meade County Animal Care and Control Department is focused on protecting public health and welfare by providing professional services to the community while insuring the humane treatment of animals.
To provide for the health and welfare of the County's animal population through enforcement of the Animal Control Ordinance, resolution of animal-related disputes, and the promotion of adoptions, licensing, spay/neuter, and humane education.
Sumter County Animal Services is committed to maintaining a kennel that is clean and healthy to support the five freedoms for animals in Sumter County Animal Services care: freedom from hunger, freedom from discomfort, freedom from pain, freedom to express normal behavior, and freedom from fear.
One of A Kind Pet Rescue is a non-profit organization founded in November 2005 and is funded by private donations. The organization is dedicated to saving animal lives, rescuing pets in imminent danger of euthanasia, spaying/neutering, adoption, and advocacy on behalf of homeless pets.
Castroville Animal Services is committed to protecting the health, safety and well -being of all people and animals in our community through enforcement of state and local laws and by providing compassionate care for every animal within the city's animal shelter.
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