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.
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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:
Wags and Walks was founded by Lesley Brog because she knew she could do more for the Shelter Animals. Wags and Walks goal is to educate people about the types of dogs in the Shelters and find those animals suitable, loving fosters and adopters. Lesley Brog visits Shelters on a daily basis, she gets to know the animals, take pictures and videos and urgently networks to find the dogs a loving home before their time is up.
Polk County Humane Society ensures a lifetime of safety, love and companionship for lost, abandoned and unwanted pets. We provide shelter and care in a safe, no-kill environment for pets awaiting a second chance. We adopt these pets to responsible, loving, and committed homes. We work to reduce the overpopulation, loss, abandonment and surrender of pets by promoting spay and neuter, and educating the community on responsible pet ownership.
To provide comprehensive care in a loving and safe environment to animals in need in Fall River County, SD and the surrounding areas, while reducing the number of animals in need of rescue and promoting kindness towards animals in the community.
Five Acres Animal Shelter is dedicated to ending pet homelessness, promoting responsible pet ownership, and advocating for animal welfare.
The Alan Purcell Animal Shelter is dedicated to providing for the humane treatment of dogs and cats in the Township of Wayne and surrounding communities. Each year the shelter cares for the lives of approximately 1,000 animals. Through its aggressive adoption, spay/neuter, community outreach and humane education programs the Shelter is committed to stimulating the public's awareness of the plight of homeless animals.
To reduce the number of homeless pets through rescue, adoption and spay and neuter programs
Since 2005, Sarge's Animal Rescue Foundation's passionate volunteers have found safe, happy homes for thousands of dogs and cats that would have been euthanized without SARGE'S intervention. All of our dogs and cats are vaccinated, spayed or neutered before adoption. We are growing fast and we intend save more lives every year!
The mission of YOUR Humane Society SPCA is to protect animals. The mission is carried out through direct care for animals that are injured, abused, unwanted, or abandoned, securing homes for as many as possible, and through community assistance programs as well as providing humane education and pet safety information to our community.
Our primary purpose is to assist the local animal shelter by improving the care of their impounded companion animals. Over the last twenty years, we have advanced our role and actually contract to operate the shelter. We have now extended our services to both cats and dogs from the city and county. We pride ourselves on trying to help as many of these pets in need as we have annual funding for.
To offer refuge, medical care, nourishment and an opportunity for a second chance for life to unwanted animals in our community. To protect animals from cruelty, neglect, carelessness and ignorance. To encourage and promote responsible pet ownership. To educate and inform the public about animal issues, and to assist in the development of short- and long-term community-oriented solutions to such problems.
To practice and promote responsible, compassionate care of all animals, both in our care and in the community we serve.
MARL has been serving southeast Michigan since 1953. Our experience as well as continued advancements in animal welfare have made us a necessary and respected presence in our community. We believe the quality of "the wait" for a home can make all the difference in an animal's future. Every day, our animals have exercise time, playtime, and quality time with people who love them. We do not ever euthanize animals for time or space.
Acting with compassion and responsible stewardship through innovative programs that serve pets and the people who love them. In order to one day, realize our vision: a community in which all pets are cared for and loved.
To improve the lives of pets and people through sustainable and obtainable programs providing medical services, adoptions, education and support of our local community.
Our mission is to create a community where all dogs and cats get a chance for a healthy and happy life in a loving home by promoting rescue, adoption and spay/neuter. Our Planned Pethood Clinic is dedicated to reducing pet overpopulation through spay neuters and also provides wellness services for the animals at our Adoption Center and for animals in our community. We also offer a trap, neuter, vaccinate and release program for community and feral cats.Our Adoption Center provides a second chance for more than 2,300 animals every year.We take in all animals in need and provide care for animals that have been hit by cars, shot, tossed into dumpsters and animals that have been abused, neglected or abandoned and left to fend for themselves.We take in dogs that are heartworm positive and puppies that are ill with parvovirus and provide treatment and care.We take in all breeds, all ages and all conditions and we never give up on them.We are fortunate to have the services of a professional dog trainer, many compassionate foster families and volunteers and a wonderful in house veterinary clinic and an outside full service veterinary clinic.Our goal is to rescue, rehabilitate and rehome animals in need so they can have a happy and healthy life.
Saving Grace is dedicated to helping homeless animals in our community find permanent, loving homes where they will be treated as family members for the rest of their lives.
The Fulton County Animal Center (FCAC) is the only open door humane shelter in Fulton County. We welcome and care for all stray and owner surrender cats and dogs brought to our facility.Since 2011, the staff and volunteers of FCAC have tirelessly worked to make the shelter a comfortable haven and place of hope--giving a second chance at a happy life to animals that otherwise would have been forgotten.
Our mission is to provide caring, compassionate shelter and enrichment for homeless companion animals, find loving lifelong homes, reunite pets and owners, promote population control and advocate for all animals. We are proud to say, we have no time limits to finding the perfect home for our guests.
Tails From The City is a non-profit, no-kill, all volunteer rescue that formed in 2011 when a group of acquaintances responded to a call for help with a hoarding situation.Over 100 cats were rescued and brought to our hastily acquired shelter located on the near west side of Cleveland, Ohio.Most of the original cats have found homes, but we saw the need in the community to continue to rescue cats/kittens, so we updated our facility to be able to continue helping more!In 2018, we opened an adoption and activity center in North Olmsted, Ohio.This new facility is a resource to provide education about felines and host cat related activities as well as a new way for us to find homes for even more kitties.
Kerman Animal Control Services works to keep the public safe, protect animals, and to help pet owners be responsible neighbors.
