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January–June 2025 data report shows important progress — and how to keep going, to reach no-kill.

Across the country, creative minds in animal welfare are proving that foster programs can be nearly anything we need them to be.

Canine Distemper Playbook

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Exploring Ways Shelters and Rescues Can Close Gaps to Accessing Care

The Bring Love Home Challenge

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…

Balancing Needs of Shelter Animals, Community in Times of Crisis

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.