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New World Screwworm: Advocacy Action Guide

This Advocacy Action Guide has tools to help shelters and rescues advocate against blanket transport bans with their own state policymakers.

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These Orgs Saw a 10x Greater Increase in Adoptions. What Could This Mean for You?

What we learned from looking at Bring Love Home Challenge participants’ data in the three months after piloting a new adoption practice.

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Kittens Are the Most Vulnerable Shelter Population, but Among the Most Adoptable

New data analysis comes with a clear call to action: Neonatal kittens have the highest mortality of all shelter populations — but that once they reach eight weeks old, th...

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My Opinion About the Term 'No-Kill' Doesn't Matter (and Yours Probably Doesn't Either)

Over the course of my 20-plus years in animal welfare, I've argued (often passionately) on both sides of this debate. But after years of talking with hundreds of people a...

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Top 5 Realities Every Shelter Leader Should Be Ready For

Relationships are key to your lifesaving success, as is arming yourself with the knowledge you need to be a successful advocate for your shelter

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It’s Raining Cats and Kittens — and Your Data Is the Umbrella

When it feels like it’s raining cats and kittens, the answer isn’t to build a bigger umbrella. It’s to understand the weather patterns, and use your data to change the fo...

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How to Save More Cats and Kittens: A Roundup of Lifesaving Shelter Programming

Lifesaving shelter programming for cats and kittens is ultimately about meeting animals where they are and designing systems that support their unique needs.

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New Data Finding: 'Micro Learning' Leads to Lasting Lifesaving Change

Take a class, save more lives.

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New Data Finding: Foster Programs Boost Adoptions by 20 Percentage Points

The numbers are even higher when fosters can process adoptions, too

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2025 Preliminary National Shelter Data Shows Lifesaving Momentum Holding

The national save rate increased 11 percentage points since 2016, saving nearly 5 million additional pets’ lives

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New Data Finding: Weekend & Evening Hours = Higher Adoption Rates

There are only so many hours in a week that a shelter can be open. So which ones are best to maximize adoptions? Data says: Evenings and weekends!

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Here’s the Data Supporting Open Adoption Practices

When Helping Hands Humane Society in Topeka, Kansas, tested their fears of fee-waived adoptions, they found their worries didn't stand up to the data.

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New World Screwworm: Advocacy Action Guide

These Orgs Saw a 10x Greater Increase in Adoptions. What Could This Mean for You?

New World Screwworm: What Shelters and Rescues Need to Know

New World Screwworm and Community Cats

New World Screwworm: Staff and Volunteer Training Guide

New World Screwworm: Fly Mitigation and Wound Management

Kittens Are the Most Vulnerable Shelter Population, but Among the Most Adoptable

My Opinion About the Term 'No-Kill' Doesn't Matter (and Yours Probably Doesn't Either)

Top 5 Realities Every Shelter Leader Should Be Ready For

It’s Raining Cats and Kittens — and Your Data Is the Umbrella

How to Save More Cats and Kittens: A Roundup of Lifesaving Shelter Programming

New Data Finding: 'Micro Learning' Leads to Lasting Lifesaving Change

New Data Finding: Foster Programs Boost Adoptions by 20 Percentage Points

2025 Preliminary National Shelter Data Shows Lifesaving Momentum Holding

New Data Finding: Weekend & Evening Hours = Higher Adoption Rates

Here’s the Data Supporting Open Adoption Practices

About the Best Friends Network

The network is a free community of 6,000 animal welfare organizations, including shelters, rescue groups, spay/neuter groups, transport groups, and other support organizations.

Meet the team

Let’s be friends!