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:
At the Manchester Animal Shelter, we believe all animals are deserving of life, respect and care. Our goal is zero population growth through spay/neuter programs and services that focus on education, medical care, fostering and adoption.
With respect and compassion for all animal life, MEOW Cat RescueAdoption promotes lifelong relationships between people and companion animals, providing shelter and care for each precious life until adopted into a forever home.
The Cattery offers an alternative to traditional animal shelters in providing a no-kill, cage-free haven for homeless, abused, or abandoned cats. We seek permanent, loving homes for these animals. Our organization promotes public awareness regarding animals and their welfare, pet overpopulation, and the benefit of quality human-animal companionship. We are dedicated to ending pet overpopulation in our community. We continually seek funding to provide free or discounted spay/neuter services for pet parents that can't afford traditional Veterinarians and for those caring for feral cat colonies.
A focal point for education and actions to improve companion animal well-being, Lucky's Place Adoption Center near Thayne, Wyoming provides a home base for the various efforts of AHA. A clean, safe transitional home for up to 30 dogs and 40 cats, with outdoor dog runs and indoor cat play rooms, Lucky's Place halls are festooned with photographs and stories from happy adoptive families.
Founded in 1975, the Humane Society of Forsyth County, Georgia (HSFC) that has been serving the NE Georgia community for 40 years.As one of the largest no-kill, non-profit 501(c)3 shelters in Georgia, HSFC is dedicated to finding homes for homeless dogs and cats, reducing pet over-population and educating our community about responsible pet ownership.
Animal Services' vision is to be a transparent animal care organization administering quality services to the community; promoting the humane treatment of animals through community partnerships, outreach, and education; placing animals in loving homes; and decreasing the euthanasia of sheltered animals.
The Humane Society of Marion County is a non-profit organization dedicated to the care and protection of animals in Marion County, Florida. Our mission is to prevent cruelty, suffering, and overpopulation of animals. The Humane Society of Marion County is a Non-Profit, No-Kill Shelter!
Safe Animal Shelter is Clay County, Florida's largest and oldest no-kill facility. Our goal is to provide a temporary home for lost, abondoned, mistreated and unwanted dogs and cats until they can be placed into a permanent home. We are community advocates for spay/neuter, vaccinations and heartworm preventative.
Helping Animals Live and Overcome Inc, aka H.A.L.O. Rescue is a no kill, non-profit animal rescue and adoption center with a mission to make Indian River County a safe place for animals. H.A.L.O. began in 2006 as a dream and has grown, solely supported through private contributions and through our services! We believe that through education and our low cost spay and neuter program we can make a difference in the animals' lives.
PetsPeople Humane Society, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit, no-kill humane society that rescues adoptable cats and dogs from municipal animal control facilities across the state of Oklahoma on the day they are to be euthanized. We provide a safe harbor for our pets until they are adopted into responsible, loving homes. All are spayed or neutered to help end the vicious cycle of homeless pets.
The Cat House on the Kings is California's largest no-cage, no-kill, lifetime cat sanctuary and adoption center. Our mission is to place rescued cats and kittens into loving, permanent homes; to provide a safe, happy and healthy home for unwanted cats and kittens in a unique, no-cage facility; to prevent pet overpopulation through spaying and neutering; and to educate the public about responsible pet ownership.
Ohio Alleycat Resource & Spay/Neuter Clinic is a volunteer-run nonprofit organization. Our mission is to enrich the lives of cats and communities in Greater Cincinnati by providing low-cost, high-quality spay/neuter services for ferals, strays and pets; offering TNR (trap-neuter-return) and other outreach programs; and running a small, no-kill adoption center dedicated to finding loving homes.
Located in sunny Phoenix, Arizona, HALO Animal Rescue is a safety net for thousands of homeless dogs and cats each year. We are a no-kill facility, which means we never euthanize an animal because we have run out of room, but it also means we are limited in the animals we can take in at any given time. These animals are lovingly cared for while they are prepared for adoption, and then they are adopted into loving homes.
The Tucker County Animal Shelter is a county-operated No Kill shelter. We continually strive for the best possible outcome for each individual animal that enters our care. We focus on helping the community with TNR, spay/neuter assistance, adoption placements, and resources to serve the underserved. Our humane officer completes welfare checks as well as animal cruelty investigations and is trained to assist people in the best care for their pets.
Our mission is to provide and promote the humane treatment of animals, through humane education, animal protection and community service. Help pets in need through sheltering, adoption, education, reuniting pets with families, and community outreach.
CASA will strive to facilitate the placement of stray and unwanted animals and pets in desirable homes; to establish and maintain an animal shelter, which promotes the health, care and handling, and prevent over population and the prevention of cruelty to animals. The animals in our care are never euthanized due to lack space, or due to exceeding a predetermined amount of time.
Our mission is to provide a safe, healthy and loving environment for the animals under our care as we search for their original owners or a caring adoptive home for them. We also work to reduce pet animal overpopulation.
The Fayette County Humane Society (FCHS) is dedicated to ending the needless suffering of unwanted pets through our aggressive spay/neuter program. We are also dedicated to rescuing homeless animals in Fayette and its surrounding counties. We test, vaccinate, and have all our rescued pets spayed or neutered.
Provide compassionate, quality care for companion animals in need with no time limit on placement into forever homes.
The Greater Huntsville Humane Society (GHHS) is a no-kill shelter dedicated to furthering the humane care and treatment of animals and providing adoption services for the unwanted and homeless animals.
We rescue from Columbus Animal Care and Control animals that otherwise would be euthanized. We do not discriminate based on breed or condition. Our mission is to bring about a Community that no longer kills dogs and cats. We have made Columbus, GA a Puppy No Kill Zone since 2012.
