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:
Each year the Animal Shelter cares for thousands of lost, abandoned or stray animals. While most are relocated back home, many are not. Adoptions are on a first come first serve basis. If nobody has shown interest in the animal after a five business day stay at the shelter, the animal will be kept as long as we have room and feel it has a potential for adoption.
Our mission is to protect the rights of people from dangers and nuisances caused by uncontrolled animals, to insure the legal protection of animals from mistreatment, to promote responsible pet ownership through education and spaying and neutering programs, and to provide a quality life adoption program.
Lincoln County Animal Services is a county run, open admission animal shelter and animal control working towards a greater than 90% live release rate. Lincoln County's mission and vision is to be a place where all healthy and treatable animals are saved, and where only irremediably suffering animals are euthanized.
We provide shelter and care for homeless animals and find new homes for those animals in need of re-homing. We educate the public on responsible pet ownership and respond to, and assist with, investigation of cruelty and neglected animals.
The mission of Fayetteville Animal Protection Society, Inc. (FAPS) is to provide a licensed, no-kill shelter for homeless animals until adopted into a loving and caring lifetime environment; to reduce the population of stray animals' and to promote responsible pet ownership. FAPS receives no government funding and operates entirely through public funding via donations, grants, fundraisers, and adoption fees.
The Alleghany Humane Society, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation. Our mission is to serve as a safe haven for stray or unwanted companion animals, educate the public about proper care and treatment of pets, advocate animal welfare, spay and neuter, and promote adoption to reduce pet homelessness.
Our mission is to provide and promote the humane treatment of animals in Oxford through humane education, animal protection, and community outreach.
Our mission is to prevent cruelty, abuse, and negligence of animals and to promote the humane treatment of all animals by educating the general public, establishing subsidized spay and neuter programs, providing shelter to lost and homeless animals and promoting pet adoption.
Improving the perception of the companion animal through advocacy, education, and spay/neuter.
The mission of the Quad City Animal Welfare Center is to operate a shelter for homeless animals, to offer spay and neuter programs and provide humane education. QCAWC has been saving lives one animal at a time since 1977.
We are the oldest and largest no-kill shelter in North Texas. The mission of Operation Kindness is to care for homeless cats and dogs in a no-kill environment until each is adopted into responsible homes and to advocate humane values and behavior. Our vision is a world where all cats and dogs have loving, responsible, forever homes.
Our mission is to provide a safe environment and medical care for the homelessunwanted animals in our shelter. We strive to find permanent, loving homes for those placed in our care. We aim to stress and educate our community of available spayneuter programs to help reduce the over population of unwanted animals.
The mission of The Delta Humane SocietySPCA is to promote the humane treatment of animals and to promote the bond of caring between humans and animals.
The effort to provide shelter for abandoned pets in Madison County began in the late 1980s from a grassroots effort of several citizens who were concerned about stray dogs and cats in the county. The pet shelter is a private non-profit 501(c)(3) tax exempt charity that relies on private donations to help homeless pets in Madison County, Arkansas.Today, Paws and Claws Pet Shelter staff finds loving homes for 99.9% of the 400+ pets we care for. The new name emphasizes the change."
The J.B. Ogle Animal Shelter is owned and operated by the City of Jeffersonville, but provides animal shelter services for all of Clark County -- including Borden, Charlestown, Clarksville, Sellersburg, Utica and unincorporated areas of Clark County -- through a series of interlocal agreements. We work hard to reunite owners with their pets, find loving adoptive homes for our available animals, educate the community about responsible pet ownership, and assist citizens of Clark County with the cost of spaying or neutering their pets. We work closely with several rescue and advocacy groups which increases the impact we can have on our community.
Paws for Life functions as an all volunteer organization dedicated to finding forever homes for the Heber City Animal Shelter animals. We publicize available animals weekly in the Wasatch Wave, our website, Petfinder and our Facebook page. We host adoption events at Petco and other local venues. We spay and neuter and provide medical care for our animals.
All4Paws is a dog and cat rescue organization that addresses the physical and emotional needs of abandoned animals through an evolving holistic approach. As a compassionate no-kill rescue organization we strive to responsibly rescue, take care of, and place as many owner-less or scheduled to die, lost, abandoned, and/or abused animals as possible while being a valued community resource.
The mission statement of Dane County Humane Society is "Helping People Help Animals." We hold central the welfare and care of animals, are compassionate and empathetic in every decision and interaction, are fiscally responsible and accountable, embrace constructive change, committed to honesty and integrity, and lead by example and with excellence.
Rosenberg Animal ControlShelter is a small, municipal animal control facility on the southwest outskirts of Houston. In 2018, the City passed a No Kill resolution, and in January 2020, the shelter attained a No Kill status. This was after saving more than 90% of its shelter pets over the period of one year. The shelter strives to do all it can, medically and behaviorally, to save more lives beyond that percentile.
Leading our community to eliminate pet overpopulation through Spay/Neuter, Adoption, and Humane Education.
Animal Allies Humane Society is a non-profit organization based in Duluth, Minnesota, that strives to ensure a lifetime of loving care for every pet by increasing adoption, decreasing overpopulation, and fostering humane values.
