Peanuts: Happiness is a best friend

Why we’re joining forces for adoptable animals

Best Friends and Peanuts are teaming up to shine a light on adoptable dogs and cats across the country. Snoopy and his siblings are just like dogs and cats in shelters around the country. Each one is wonderfully unique, and each one is ready for a place to call home.

Go ahead, pick the weird one. Take a chance on the goofball. Fall in love with the confidently clumsy. Or the sweetly sheepish. We believe great pets are one of a kind, just like Snoopy and his siblings. And right now, a dog or cat in a shelter is waiting to show you their unique brand of charm and charisma. Adopt a character of your very own.

Don’t miss out on the fun!

Best Friends and Peanuts are teaming up to shine a light on adoptable dogs and cats across the country.

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Snoopy and his siblings are quite the collection of characters. The pets at your local shelter are real characters too, each with their individual charms and appeal, all deserving of a home. And getting involved is one of the best ways to help save their lives. You can volunteer, foster, or advocate for animals right in your own community.

Your local shelter is full of loving, loyal characters of all types who could use a friend like you.

Your local shelter is full of amazing cats and dogs — true characters like Snoopy’s sister Belle, friendly and smart, with a brightness that can’t be contained. The thing they all have in common? They’re ready for a home and family of their very own.

Shelters and rescue groups in your community need caring people like you to foster, volunteer, adopt, donate, and advocate to help save the lives of pets. When you give us your email address, we’ll send you a list of shelters where you live and share more about how you can help save the lives of homeless pets.

What you can do to help save homeless pets

We’re so close to reaching no-kill — here’s what you can do to help.

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Foster a pet

Fostering a pet is a short-term commitment with a long-term impact. By opening your home to an animal for, you set them up for success with the skills they need to thrive in their future home.

Learn more about fostering

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Adopt

Adoption isn’t just an act of love — it’s a literal lifesaver. If just 6% more people chose to adopt instead of buy their next pet, we could make the entire country no-kill.

Find adoptable pets near you

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Volunteer

Volunteering can make a huge difference. Whether you're walking a dog, socializing with cats, or lending your talents to community events, every bit goes a long way to help animals in need.

Learn more about volunteering

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Advocate

Be the change in your community and use your voice to advocate for the animals. Team up with fellow community members to support programs and policies affecting animals in your community.

Become an animal advocate

Let's be friends!

When you give us your email address we'll send you emails with inspiring stories and ways to make a difference for animals in your community and around the U.S.

Check out a few happy tales

From stories of second chances to tales of triumph, read some heartwarming animal updates.

Make a gift to the animals

When you give to Best Friends, your gift goes straight to saving the lives of homeless pets around the country, providing the help and healing each animal needs to land a loving home.

Donate today

About Best Friends Animal Society

Best Friends is working to end the killing of dogs and cats in U.S. shelters in part by getting more pets out of shelters and into loving homes.

We’ve come a long way since the first known city reached no-kill in 1994, and now we’re closer than ever to making the entire country no-kill. Of the roughly 3,900 shelters operating in America today, 1,300 of them are not yet no-kill, but nearly half are close with 100 or fewer additional pets to be saved, and we know what to do to get them there.

Best Friends is committed to working with passionate people like you to save homeless pets through adoption, volunteering, fostering, and advocacy. In addition to our pet adoption centers around the U.S, we also founded and run the nation's largest no-kill sanctuary for companion animals.

Working together, we can save homeless pets in our communities and secure a better future for our best friends. Together, we will bring the whole country to no-kill.

About Peanuts

On October 2, 1950, Charles M. Schulz introduced a brand-new comic strip with an unlikely round-headed hero, “Good ol’ Charlie Brown.” PEANUTS was born. From humble beginnings in just seven U.S. newspapers, PEANUTS has grown to become not only the best-loved comic strip in history, but a true global phenomenon. Today PEANUTS is featured in online syndication and in thousands of newspapers worldwide; in classic specials and in new streaming series on Apple TV+; and in mobile apps, stage productions, feature films, and books (hundreds of them). PEANUTS has inspired theme park attractions, public art projects, and every kind of consumer product from pj’s to popcorn makers. Snoopy has even gone to space (more than once!) thanks to a Space Act Agreement between Peanuts Worldwide and NASA. PEANUTS speaks a universal language—and has also introduced a vocabulary all its own: “Good grief!,” “security blanket,” “You blockhead!” and “Happiness is… .”