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Elevate Lifesaving Work with Technology

Length of Stay Manual

Best Friends is partnering with Pet Lovers' Choice, a new, star-studded, nationally broadcast event that celebrates our beloved pets, and we want your organization to be a part of it. This is the chance to engage your communities, have them celebrate your adoption stories, and receive critical fundi…

Exploring Ways Shelters and Rescues Can Close Gaps to Accessing Care

How to Host a Vaccine Clinic

The Bring Love Home Challenge

Creating more efficient flows with noses in and noses out doesn’t have to be complicated or resource intensive. With a few focused practices, you can reduce length of stay, avoid bottlenecks, and get more pets home faster. Pathway planning is a practical, proactive approach to managing your populati…

From coast to coast, communities all over the U.S. are making lifesaving history by announcing no-kill proclamations and resolutions — and now you can help spread the word. If your community recently adopted a proclamation, we’re offering free promotional materials (in English and Spanish) to help y…

How to raise money to help homeless dogs and cats: This comprehensive Best Fiends Animal Society resource provides tips and ideas.

This week we sat down with two Best Friends staff members to get their take on words and terms we use in our work; the senior director of lifesaving programs for the east coast region, Makena Yarbrough, and the manager for the east coast region, John Graves.