Best Friends Animal Society

Saving lives in Atlanta

You can make a difference in the lives of animals in your community.

Last year, hundreds of thousands of loving dogs and cats were killed in shelters like those here in Atlanta just because they didn’t have safe places to call home.

Best Friends Animal Society in Atlanta is working to change that by collaborating with shelters, rescue groups and individuals across Georgia and the Southeast to save the lives the dogs and cats through adoption, foster and transport programs.

Best Friends also funds and works with Good Mews community cat program to spay and neuter and vaccinate community cats in Atlanta and the surrounding areas.

You can help by adopting, fostering volunteering and advocating. Working together, we will make Georgia and the entire country no-kill by 2025.

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Adopt to help save lives

When you adopt a dog or cat who’s been patiently waiting for a place to call home, you’re saving a life.

Plus, you’re creating space for another homeless pet in Atlanta to be rescued. You might not feel like a hero, but to one animal, you’re the entire world.

View Adoptable Cats and Dogs

Find out more about pet adoption through Best Friends in Atlanta.

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Volunteer to help save lives

Passionate, caring people like you who volunteer to help the animals are the heartbeat of our organization here in Atlanta.

You can help homeless pets and make a tremendous difference in Atlanta by fostering, transporting, event volunteering and more. Explore our many volunteer opportunities.

Become a Lifesaving Volunteer
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Find help and services in Atlanta

Pet Care

Introducing pets

Here's what you should know before you introduce a dog to a cat.
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Pet Care

Found a stray dog or cat?

Here's what you can do.
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Community Cat Programs

Good Mews is helping cats at risk

Best Friends in Atlanta works with Good Mews Animal Foundation to help community cats in the area.
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Neonatal Kitten Care

Saving the smallest and most vulnerable

Newborn kittens need around-the-clock bottle-feeding to grow and thrive.
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Events: make a difference for pets

Have fun and connect with fellow animal lovers through a variety of local and national events, big and small.

Give to save lives

Your contribution supports our lifesaving work and helps shelters nationwide achieve no-kill.

You’ll be helping to save the lives of homeless pets here in Atlanta and around the country when you make a gift to the animals.

Give to Save Lives
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Recent tales from Atlanta

Looking for a little inspiration? Check out these pets and their stories of hope, love and resilience.

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College students save cats’ lives through fostering

Lauren Burgess and Jill Church planned to adopt a pet and instead signed up to foster. Now they’re giving cats with special needs a second chance.
See why they made the leap into fostering
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Faces of No-Kill: Injured cat finds comfort in new home

June the cat went from being found alone dragging her back legs to a shelter and then to nightly snuggles in her new home.
Read how a special friendship formed
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Two false starts lead dog to true love

Frannie is proof that all it takes is one person who loves you the way you are to change your life for the better.
From homeless to home
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Shop to save lives

When you shop at the Best Friends store, the proceeds go right to work providing lifesaving care and companionship to animals in Atlanta, at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary and around the country.
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Contact us

1692 Oak Street SE
Marietta, GA 30060
404-815-6680
contactatlanta@bestfriends.org

Open by appointment only for prescheduled adoptions and pickups.

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