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The Best Friends Podcast

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The Best Friends Podcast Ep. 85: Building partnerships to maximize lifesaving

We save more lives working together than we do if we all go it alone. Lifesaving coalitions - partnerships between the shelter and those from the rescue community - can b...

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The Best Friends Podcast Ep. 84: The art of storytelling for year end fundraising

As the calendar year begins to wind down, one group of people in animal welfare are just getting warmed up - the fundraisers.

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The Best Friends Podcast Ep. 83: Keeping ourselves whole (rebroadcast)

We all know how important the work being done in the animal welfare field is right now. But dealing with the pandemic and other serious issues such as the growing staffin...

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The Best Friends Podcast Ep. 82: Expanding our reach with multilingual marketing

For decades, the lack of positive outreach into bilingual communities has left generations of people unaware of animal shelters, what is happening at them, and how they, ...

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The Best Friends Podcast Ep. 81: I just trust people

Have you ever owned a pet you acquired for free as a stray? Do you love that pet any less than others you’ve had in your life?

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The Best Friends Podcast Ep. 80: Professionalizing the profession

Animal welfare is more professional than it’s ever been. Across the country, collectively, we’re saving more lives on any given day than some ever thought possible. We ha...

Tawny Hammond from Best Friends Animal Society sitting with a dog

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The Best Friends Podcast Ep. 79: Animal welfare feeling the effects of the nationwide staffing crisis

The United States is suffering from a severe labor shortage, and just about every industry is feeling it. From hospitality to healthcare, transportation, banking, agricul...

Veterinary technician holds a kitten at a vaccine clinic

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The Best Friends Podcast Ep. 78: Saving senior pets with Vintage Pet Rescue

Saving senior pets from shelters is expensive and challenging and an area of lifesaving where the need outweighs the amount of available help. Compared to the total numbe...

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The Best Friends Podcast Ep. 77: Saving senior pets with The Grey Muzzle Organization

Reliable data around what’s happening to senior pets in shelters are hard to come by, but we do know this. Older animals are a highly vulnerable segment of the shelter po...

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The Best Friends Podcast Ep. 76: Increasing adoptions through effective marketing

If you're feeling more overwhelmed than usual, you are not alone. The year-to-date shelter data shows that intake is up - but not by much compared to the last "normal" ye...

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The Best Friends Podcast Ep. 75: It’s not rescue if they already have a home

We all experience defining moments in our lives. Events such as marriage, kids, losing loved ones, career changes can all shape who we are, often on profound levels. This...

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The Best Friends Podcast Ep. 74: Helping Indigenous people and their pets on the Navajo Nation

Rural communities across the country struggle to access essential services such as healthcare, let alone easily accessible and affordable veterinary care for their pets. ...

Keith Slim-Tolagai - Best Friends Animal Society

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The Best Friends Podcast Ep. 73: It’s not back to business as usual for animal welfare

In an unprecedented year, 2020 brought about a lot of change and many new opportunities for lifesaving innovation. Many communities across the country implemented lifesav...

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The Best Friends Podcast Ep. 72: Innovation and collaboration - lifesaving in El Paso, Texas

The journey for El Paso, Texas, towards becoming a no-kill community is a familiar one - mostly. In 2013, only one in four pets that entered the shelter made it out alive...

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The Best Friends Podcast Ep. 71: Compassionate Badassery (rebroadcast)

This week’s episode begins with a simple question. How do you feel? We hear the term “new normal” an awful lot right now as the world is continuing to ease COVID-related ...

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The Best Friends Podcast Ep. 70: Best Friends pet lifesaving dashboard

When Best Friends planted the stake in the ground and announced the no-kill goal in 2016, we realized that to achieve the goal, we needed to know much more about what was...

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The network is a free community of over 5,000 animal welfare organizations, including shelters, rescue groups, spay/neuter groups, transport groups, and other support organizations.

The Best Friends Network is your support system in your journey to save the lives of dogs and cats in your communities. Network partners gain access to exclusive challenges, grants, resources, and dedicated support.

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