dog

New Jersey

Best Friends works closely with local shelters, rescue groups and passionate people like you in New Jersey. Together, we can bring this country to no-kill by 2025.
PetLifesavingDesktopState/State?pState=NJ&:linktarget=_parent
PetLifesavingMobileState/State?pState=NJ&:linktarget=_parent

Help save homeless pets in NJ

Shelters near you need help to save more lives. In 2022, 2,407 dogs and cats were killed in animal shelters across New Jersey, but together with your help, we’re changing that.

Best Friends is working with animal welfare organizations and stakeholders statewide to save every pet who can be saved and reach no-kill through New Jersey by 2025. Your local shelter is counting on your help. Now is the time to get involved and make a lifesaving difference.

Best Friends focuses on cats in New Jersey

Best Friends is supporting two bills (A. 2275 and S. 179) focused on saving cats. These bills would allow trap-neuter-vaccinate-return for community cats (aka cats who live outdoors) in New Jersey and establish a state fund for spay and neuter services. Best Friends also partners with Burlington County Animal Shelter and Camden County’s Homeward Bound Pet Adoption Center on satellite foster programs to increase positive outcomes for dogs and cats.

New Jersey Animals Need Your Help

You can be a hero to homeless dogs and cats in your community when you adopt, foster, and advocate.
BFAS staff at the Best Friends Conference
National conference
Whether you work at a shelter, volunteer with a rescue group or just love animals, the Best Friends National Conference is for you.
Join Us
ranger the dog with his American flag bandana
Add your voice to a campaign
Create change by connecting with a local team of grassroots advocates today.
Add your voice
foster mom sitting with her foster dog
Foster an animal
Save a life by opening your heart and home to a foster pet.
Get involved
Family holding a black and white puppy
Adopt near you
Find a shelter or rescue group near you.
Find opportunities
Happy black and tan dog lying on a gray cushion

Cat and dog stories to spark joy

Best Friends Network Partners across the country share their tales about animals whose lives are now shining bright.
See these good news stories
Best Friends Magazine
Dallas, a low-rider pit-bull-terrier-like dog

How a challenged Newark animal shelter reached no-kill

After years of challenges, Associated Humane Societies achieved a 91% save rate in 2021.
Read about their lifesaving changes
Feature
Gray kitten lying on his back on a fuzzy bed

Grant supports Providence Animal Center’s work in helping other shelters

500 cats, kittens and parvo pups in the Northeast benefit from a $50,000 Best Friends grant to Providence Animal Center.
Read how the funds saved lives
Feature

Volunteer to save the lives of pets in New Jersey

With millions of animals in shelters around the country hoping for families of their very own, one of the most valuable gifts you can give is the gift of your time. For animals waiting to go home, your kindness makes all the difference.

bestfriends.org/volunteer

Q & A graphic

Pet lifesaving dashboard FAQs

Get answers to the most commonly asked dashboard questions.
/no-kill-faqs
Lightbulb and gear icon

Dashboard methodology

Learn about the dataset, definitions and formulas for calculations.
/map-methodology
drawing of a dog in a doghouse

Update your shelter’s info

Use this form if you work with a shelter and need to update your shelter’s information.
https://network.bestfriends.org/form/shelter-data-update

Find a Best Friends Network partner near you

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

Each and every one of our network partners needs caring people like you to adopt, foster, donate, volunteer and advocate to help save the lives of pets where you live.

Find a network partner near you today:

Find a network partner near you today:
Units: Miles
Address, City, Zip-Code, Country, ...