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Bring love home by adopting a pet near you

When you adopt a homeless pet, you’re not only adding a loyal and loving companion to your family, but you’re also helping to save lives. 

This year, roughly 7 million homes in America are planning to add a pet to their family. 

By adopting a pet from a shelter or rescue group, you’re saving the life of a homeless pet while also making space in a shelter for another pet to be rescued. And that’s huge.

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.

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Find adoptable dogs and cats where you live  

Whether you adopt from a Best Friends location, a Best Friends Network partner, or one of the many shelters and rescue groups around the country, you’ll be helping to save lives — and you’ll bring love home. 

Share your information below and we'll get you all that you need to know about adopting a pet near you.

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Do you believe every animal deserves a place to call home?  

Here at Best Friends, we believe that every dog and cat deserves love, safety, and a home.  

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What you can do to save the lives of homeless pets  

There are so many ways you can provide safe homes for dogs and cats in your community, and we'll show you how. 

See how you can save animals 

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Pets who found their way home 

Check out these pets and their stories of hope, love, and resilience.

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Adopter sees the sweetness in shy senior cat

Like sugar and spice, Sugar the cat and Ginger the person were just the right match for each other.
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Healing the fastest animal on Earth

It was a race against time to save a grounded peregrine falcon found near Best Friends Animal Sanctuary.
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 Lifesaving tales: Pets land new homes in unusual ways

Best Friends supporters share their stories of how their dog and cat family members came into their lives through unexpected circumstances.
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Hop into Easter with bunny tales and tips

Discover adorable bunny stories, learn fun facts, and get tips on adopting and caring for rabbits — just in time for a hoppy Easter.
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Lifesaving tales: Heartwarming dog adoptions

Best Friends supporters reminisce about the special day when they brought home their canine family members.
Stories of the day when they adopted their dogs
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All for the animals: Volunteers share their ‘why’

Each Best Friends volunteer has their own reason for giving their time to help animals. Read their inspiring stories here.
Volunteers believe that together we can Save Them All
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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. Today, nearly 2,500 shelters are no-kill throughout the U.S. — and over 600 more are just 100 pets or fewer away from reaching that milestone.

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 lifesaving 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.