Pioneer Paws
Pioneer Paws is a partner of Best Friends, working together to save the lives of dogs and cats in communities like yours across the country
The Best Friends Network is made up of thousands of public and private shelters, rescue groups, spay/neuter organizations, and other animal welfare groups — all working to save the lives of dogs and cats in communities like yours across the country.
Best Friends formed the Northwest Arkansas Partnership for Animal Welfare (NWA PAW) in 2018, a coalition of dozens of shelters and rescue groups across the region working together to save lives.
From Pioneer Paws
El objetivo de Pioneer Paws es ayudar a Gentry Animal Shelter a encontrar hogares y financiar la atención médica y las modificaciones para las admisiones de perros. Se promueve TNR para gatos. También ofrecemos educación pública sobre los beneficios de las modificaciones y los microchips y organizamos eventos de adopción.
How is your community doing when it comes to lifesaving?
Our partners support each other and inspire their own communities to increase lifesaving of dogs and cats across the country.
Animals in Arkansas need your help
You can make a world of difference in the lives of cats and dogs in your community when you work with Pioneer Paws and Best Friends to support homeless pets and save more lives.
Heartwarming stories from our partners
Who we are
Best Friends Animal Society works alongside thousands of animal shelters, rescue groups, and other animal welfare organizations to save the lives of cats and dogs across the country and to make the entire country no-kill in 2025.
The Best Friends Network is comprised of thousands of animal welfare groups from every single state, all working to save the lives of pets in their own communities.
The Northwest Arkansas Partnership for Animal Welfare (NWA PAW) is comprised of dozens of shelters and animal welfare groups across the region, all working to save the lives of pets in Northwest Arkansas.
Ranging from animal shelters and rescue groups to spay/neuter and trap-neuter-vaccinate-return (TNVR) organizations, they collaborate with Best Friends to save even more lives in every corner of the country.
Best Friends provides marketing help, fundraising events, webinars, grants, and other resources so that, together, we can Save Them All.
Interested in becoming a partner? Visit bestfriends.org/network »
Interested in joining the Northwest Arkansas Partnership for Animal Welfare? Visit bestfriends.org/northwest-arkansas for more »