Adopt a pet and save a life
You can save the life of a dog or cat by choosing to adopt. In 2024, 425,000 cats and dogs were killed in this country’s shelters, simply because they didn’t have a safe place to call home.
We know millions of households will add a pet to their family this year. If just 1 in 17 more of those families chose to adopt a pet from a shelter, we could reach no-kill nationwide.
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.
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 foster an environment of respect, responsibility, and compassion for all animals through learning, legislation, and leadership.
The Colville Valley Animal Sanctuary is determined to inspire the public to support the humane treatment of animals and to transform the lives of companion animals in need.
The Germantown Animal Shelter is a municipal facility, striving to find homes for homeless dogs and cats. The shelter also houses stray dogs and cats until they are reunited with their owners. Animal control services are provided for the city of Germantown, including stray/injured animal pick-up.
We are an all-volunteer organization that dedicates our time to the homeless Cats and Dogs in Attleboro. We are committed to nurturing and promoting the animal-human bond and creating a community where our relationship with companion animals is guided by compassion.
We Are Their Voice
Through adoption and education, RAS promotes humane treatment and protection for those with no voice of their own. We provide quality, compassionate care with love for all animals. RAS encourages the community to value animals, treating them with empathy, kindness and respect.
PALS' mission is to provide care, shelter, and permanent placement for companion animals, to support the spaying and neutering of all pets to prevent overpopulation, and to educate our communities on the humane treatment of animals.
The Animal Protective Foundation promotes and protects the human-animal bond by providing resources to our community and humane care to companion animals.
Provide humane canine care and control, reunite lost pets and owners and ensure the safety and welfare of the community and animals through appropriate law enforcement and education.
Happily ever afters
