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:
To protect animals and residents by promoting a health and safe environment for all.
The mission of the Animal Rescue League of Berks County is to improve all aspects of the humane treatment of animals through quality services, accommodations, and the education of pet owners and the community.
Greenhill Humane Society provides care and shelter for animals, support and resources for people, and education to promote the humane treatment of animals.
Our mission is to provide non lethal solutions to the homeless, abandoned, and feral animal population of Fort Smith Arkansas. We will do this through reunifying animals with their owners, adopting animals to new families, or transporting animals to different areas where they can be adopted.
To rescue dogs and cats from euthanasia from animal control facilities or through owner-surrender, so that the animals may live in a safe, healthy shelter until they find forever homes.
The Humane Society of Henderson County (HSHC) is a 501(c)3 charitable organization in Henderson, Kentucky. It is dedicated to the elimination of cruelty, abuse, neglect and abandonment of domestic companion animals. It provides a safe haven to the unwanted, abandoned, abused, neglected and homeless animals of Henderson County. It works to adopt or place these animals once they are spayed, neutered.
In accordance with County Ordinance 215.010, our purpose is to protect public health and safety, reduce or prevent the spread of communicable animal diseases, and to enforce the Jefferson County animal-related ordinances and statutes or Missouri.
SPCA of Southwest Michigan (SPCA) is a volunteer led and operated organization dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and responsible adoption of homeless pets. SPCA provides its rescued animals with veterinary care, vaccinations and spay/neuter surgery, as well as socialization and rehabilitation within our foster home system and at our shelter.
Seattle Humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
MCPAWS Regional Animal Shelter is Valley County's only animal shelter. Our mission is to provide safe shelter and care for abandoned, surrendered and lost cats and dogs while trying to find them loving homes. We believe in responsible pet ownership, and we provide low cost spay and neuter services as well as spay and neuter every adoptable animal before it is made available. We believe every animal deserves a loving, forever home.
Our mission is to prevent cruelty to animals, to relieve suffering among animals, and to promote the extension of human education, and to aid in finding suitable placement for homeless animals.
The Albany Humane Society is dedicated to the welfare of animals who cannot speak for themselves. If we are to continue meeting the needs of hungry, sick and homeless animals, we will need your help. We presently provide housing for the animals of Albany and Dougherty County. We accept strays turned in by concerned citizens, as well as pets surrendered by their owners.
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.
Our mission is to show compassion to all animals by working to end animal homelessness and euthanasia.
The Parowan shelter is a no-kill facility. Our mission is to care for the well being of the dogs at the shelter. Our goal is to find responsible homes for all dogs.
Ouachita Parish Animal Control and Shelter works for the citizens of the parish to ensure the safety of the public from nuisance and aggressive animals. To collaborate, communicate, and educate the importance of animal welfare. To save as many lives as possible through rescue and adoption.
The mission of the Humane Society Waterville Area is to shelter animals until they find permanent homes, to educate the community about responsible pet ownership, and to advocate for the humane treatment of all animals.
PAWS is dedicated to saving Philadelphia's homeless, abandoned, and unwanted pets. PAWS is the city's largest no-kill shelter and operates two high-volume, low-cost clinics serving pet owners and rescue organizations that lack access to affordable veterinary care. Through its adoption locations, special events, and foster care network, PAWS finds loving homes for thousands of animals each year. PAWS is working to make Philadelphia a no-kill city where every healthy and treatable pet is guaranteed a home.
Established in Fountain Hills, Arizona in 2012, Fearless Kitty Rescue, a non-proft organization was born out of a passion to save kitties. A group made up of caring volunteers who know it takes a village to save, nurture and find our kitties forever homes. We are committed to making a positive impact on kitties' lives and also in our community with education and resources. With Fearless Kitty Rescue, it is all about the kitties!
The Providence Animal Rescue League is a non-profit animal shelter serving communities throughout Rhode Island and beyond. We receive no federal or state funding and rely solely on donations from generous individuals, businesses and foundations to support our work to provide compassionate care, medical treatment and adoption services to more than 2000 animals each year.
A tax-funded, government domestic stray animal control agency dedicated to: Ensuring public safety and health; Providing education on responsible pet ownership and compliance of local ordinances and State Statutes; Strengthening the human-animal bond; Reducing pet overpopulation through non-lethal humane methods; Reuniting lost and missing pets with rightful owners; and Adoption of animals into loving, permanent homes.
