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Find the one who just gets you

From Deadpool to Wolverine, everyone needs a best bub.

Best Friends is teaming up with Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine, in theaters July 26, to give homeless dogs and cats in our communities a chance to find their very own people.

Join us and help save the lives of dogs and cats all over the country. Fuzzballs and oddballs just like Dogpool – Deadpool's pet who's just so cute, it's disgusting.

We're teaming up to bring love home

You don’t have to wear a tight, spandex suit to be a hero. You just have to adopt a pet! So many dogs and cats in shelters nationwide are waiting for someone they can take on the world with.

Everyone deserves a home — and that includes pets in shelters. And when they don’t have a home, they’re at risk of being killed. In fact, a dog or cat is killed in America’s shelters every 90 seconds just because they don’t have a safe place to call home.

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.

When we work together to bring our best friends home, we help loving pets find the families they’ve been dreaming of, and we get the country closer to ending the killing of pets in shelters. So together, let’s bring our best friends home and Save Them All.

Adopt your very own Dogpool and bring love home
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See what makes adopted pets so incredibly special

Find your best bub — there are dogs and cats in shelters all across the country hoping to find their very own people.

When you adopt a homeless dog or cat from a shelter or rescue group, you’re not only saving the life of a loving and loyal animal, but you’re also making space for other pets to find families of their own. 

There are countless reasons to adopt a pet, but here are 10, starting with the big one.

10 reasons to adopt a shelter pet

You can help save the lives of homeless pets

You create a healthier community for both people and pets when you adopt, foster, and support the pets who need you most — there are pets like Dogpool in shelters around the country waiting to find loving homes.

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Adopt a pet

When you adopt a cat or dog from a rescue group or animal shelter near you, you’re making a lifesaving difference for a loving and grateful animal.
Find adoptable cats and dogs near you 
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Foster a pet

Fostering a pet is a flexible and short-term commitment with long-term impact. By opening your home to a dog or cat for even a few days, you can save lives.
The fun of fostering 

Pets like Dogpool at shelters near you are looking for love

The Best Friends Network is made up of thousands of public and private animal 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. 

Every one of our network partners needs caring people like you to help save lives through pet adoption, volunteering, and advocating in your community.

Find an animal shelter or rescue group near you today: 
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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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Dog’s no-laser therapy is almost as good as the real thing

When Swing was diagnosed with cancer, he had to stop laser therapy for arthritis. But that didn’t mean the therapy sessions he loved so much had to stop.
He still enjoys all the attention and love
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Cat celebrates sweet 16 in loving home

Misty went home just in time for this milestone birthday, highlighting the love and joy that come with adopting senior pets.
Now every day is a celebration
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Torvi and Hope the rabbits outside with a carrot

Senior bunnies find love and healing in each other

Let the healing begin! Shy, older bunnies Torvi and Hope lost their partners but gained something even better: each other.
Now they're lucky in love
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Sponsor a homeless pet

Sponsorship gifts provide essential lifesaving care to pets waiting to find a home of their own.
Sponsor a Pet

Consider giving the Fresh Start Care Package to give homeless pets the healing and attention they need to live their best lives.

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Who we are

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

Whether their home is a big house with a fenced yard or a cozy apartment — or it’s a community cat’s safe outdoor space — every pet deserves to have a safe place to call home. That’s why we’re working to save the lives of cats and dogs all across the country, giving pets second chances and happy homes.  

Just a few short years ago, cats and dogs were killed in staggering numbers in this country simply because shelters didn't have the community support or the resources to save their lives. That number is now less than half a million per year, but there’s still work to do to ensure that every dog and cat in America finds a safe place to call home. 

Best Friends also runs the nation’s largest no-kill animal sanctuary and works collaboratively with a network of more than 5,000 animal welfare and shelter partners, plus community members around the country, to save pets’ lives.

Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine delivers the ultimate, iconic, cinematic team-up throwdown in U.S. theaters July 26.

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Let’s be friends! 

Connect with us on social media to stay in the loop about the lifesaving progress we’re making together.   

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