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 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.
Adopt a pet from an animal shelter or rescue group near you
The Best Friends Network is made up of thousands of public and private shelters, rescue groups, spay/neuter organizations and other animal welfare groups, all working to save the lives of dogs and cats in communities like yours across the country.
Each and every one of our network partners needs caring people like you to adopt, foster, donate, volunteer and advocate to help save the lives of pets where you live.
Find a network partner near you today:
SafeHaven Humane Society provides Linn County Oregon with a resource for most issues related to animals. From sheltering animals, adoption services, spay/neuter assistance, and youth and humane education programs SafeHaven is here to help. We also partner will the local law enforcement and social service personnel on animal related issues.
Purrfect Friends Cat Rescue is an all-volunteer, non-profit group working to end the plight and suffering of unwanted cats and kittens in the greater Cincinnati area.
To educate and assist communities with affordable spay/neuter solutions, to reduce the number of homeless pets, and to enrich the lives of companion animals and their relationship with people through fostering and adoption.
The Enid Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is a non-profit, 501 (c) 3 organization whose mission is to end adoptable pet euthanasia in Enid due to overpopulation.
To rescuerehabilitate the abused, and neglected animals of North Carolina regardless of age, breed, or special needs. Dedicated to ending Breed Selective Legislation, the prevention of animal cruelty, improving animal welfare and saving more lives through our No-Kill policy. To provide shelter, food, vet care and love to all in need. Promoting the importance of spayneuter practices and providing resources for the pets of the community.
Fuzzy Texan Animal Rescue is a volunteer-powered nonprofit dedicated to rescuing homeless, neglected, and abandoned animals from euthanasia and finding them loving forever homes. We specialize in rescuing cleft palate neonates, hydrocephalus, and other special needs babies in Texas and all of the surrounding states. We have a very high success rate with our special needs babies.
Our mission is to promote a humane, safe and healthy environment for our animals and our community.
Barkville Dog Rescue Inc, fomerly BarkTown Dog RescueSanctuary, Inc. is an all-volunteer non-profit organization. We envision a compassionate world where all dogs reside in responsible, loving homes. Dogs in our care are spayed or neutered, vaccinated, microchipped and receive all appropriate veterinary care and treatment that is needed. The dogs are then placed in nurturing foster homes while they await placement into their permanent home. Our group remains interested in and committed to the welfare of the dogs beyond the adoption process.
FOPAS's primary mission is to humanely house, care for, provide medical treatment for, and find permanent homes for the abandoned and stray dogs and cats from Platte, Clay and, to some extent, surrounding counties which have come under our care. The work of the organization is carried out almost exclusively by dedicated volunteers and is financed through donations and fund raising events. FOPAS believes that our entire community is benefited by the compassion and humanity shown in caring for animals which have been discarded. The animals cannot speak for themselves, so hopefully FOPAS speaks and acts for them. Adoptee families which meet the standards set by FOPAS are accepted regardless of location.
Providing safe housing for the pets brought in from our member Police Departments until they can be reunited with their owners or transferred out to an approved rescue organization for adoption.
Our mission is to connect Chicagoland families with adoptable dogs from across the U.S. and provide local education and resources.
The core mission of Mostly Mutts Animal Rescue is to reduce the number of animals euthanized at county shelters in the metro Atlanta area. We provide ongoing physical, medical and emotional care, including spay and neutering to reduce the staggering number of unwanted pets, before placing animals in loving, permanent homes. Our commitment is to transform abused, abandoned, unwanted and unloved dogs and cats into a cherished friend for life.
To provide a safe and loving environment for Pasco's homeless dogs and cats. Provide temporary shelter to same while they wait adoption into loving and forever homes.
The purpose of this nonprofit is to nurture, educate, and engage the community in the care of cats and dogs in need, giving as many animals as possible a chance to thrive in loving homes.
We provide TNR to community cats in order to improve their lives, and that of their caretakers, and to decrease the numbers of unwanted kittens born.
The Humane Society of Northeast Iowa (HSNEI) is a humane society founded in 1995, in Decorah, Iowa, to help abused, neglected, abandoned, and unwanted companion animals in the five-county area of Northest Iowa (Allamakee, Clayton, Fayette, Howard, and Winneshiek counties). Since our founding, we have offered numerous services including dog and cat rescue, fostering and adoption services, humane education,and more.
We are an all-volunteer group of dog lovers who rescue and rehabilitate pit bull type dogs. We also do shelter and owner support and education and outreach projects. We do not take in dogs from the public or strays.
Our Mission isto bring them home - working dogs in appropriate pet homes.
Our Vision isa kinder society through rehabilitation and education.
Our Guiding Principles includeproviding good homes for rescued working dogs, developing a shared educational/emotional relationship with a dog team and its members, using dog powered sports to capture the imagination and promote educational insights into rescues, promoting the value of volunteerism and introducing healthy outdoor activities that are shared by all-ages and their dogs.
Nassau Humane Society is a no-kill shelter located in Fernandina Beach, FL, offering temporary shelter to homeless pets while we work to find their forever homes.
Our mission is to improve the quality of life of displaced animals in Ouachita Parish by providing a modern shelter that encourages active community involvement and support, while promoting education and actions aimed at reducing the population of displaced animals.
Serve, protect and shelter homeless companion animals. Place animals into humane environments. Promote responsible pet ownership and reduce animal overpopulation. Celebrate the human-animal bond
