After Your Visit

Want to hold on to a little of that Sanctuary magic? Read on to find out how to become a Best Friends member, sponsor an animal who touched your heart, make a difference in your own community, follow us on social media and more.

Adopt a Sanctuary animal

By adopting a furry (or feathered) friend from the Sanctuary, you will be changing the life of a homeless pet and taking part in a lifesaving movement to Save Them All.

On any given day, Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, located in Kanab, Utah, is home to up to 1,600 animals, including dogs, cats, horses, birds, rabbits, pigs and others. Many of these animals come to the Sanctuary for extra care and healing until they are ready for new homes.

Search for a Sanctuary animal

Not sure which animal or what kind might be the perfect fit for you? Please fill out an interest form for a dog or cat and we’ll point you in the right direction.

Sponsor a Sanctuary animal

When you sponsor a homeless pet at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, you help that animal in ways that can’t even be counted.

Sponsorship helps animals find loving homes, provides low-cost spay/neuter programs, supports legislative and advocacy efforts that save the lives of pets, and much more.

Sponsorships make great gifts for the animal lovers in your life. With a gift of $25 or more, you can send a special e-card or download a printable card that lets your loved ones know all about the pet they’ve sponsored and the lifesaving impact of their sponsorship.

Sponsor a Sanctuary Animal

Become a Best Friends member

When you become a member of Best Friends, you’ll help save the lives of pets in shelters across the nation.

Your membership gift goes to work immediately to providing the animals at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary with the medical and emotional care they need. You’ll also support lifesaving programs around the country, including adoption, spay/neuter and foster programs

Memberships also help end breed-specific legislation, which takes dogs away from loving families; stop puppy mills; and keep community cats safe and out of shelters through trap-neuter-return (TNR) programs.

When you become a member, you’ll receive a one-year subscription to Best Friends’ bimonthly magazine, lodging discounts when you visit the Sanctuary, invitations to events around the country, and newsletters and email updates to keep you in the loop.

Become a Member

Advocate for the animals

Are you ready to work with others in your community to help homeless pets?

Consider joining the 2025 Action Team, a community-driven, grassroots movement to save more dogs and cats across the country. We work with local advocates like you to make sustainable changes that save lives.

When you join, you become part of a driven group of animal lovers who believe that all pets and people deserve compassion, and that we can create real change for dogs and cats in need when we work together.

Join your local grassroots action team

Find a local 2025 Action Team near you and learn how you can help create big change for the pets and people in your community today.

Make a lifesaving gift

Your gift goes straight to work saving lives and providing homeless animals — both here at the Sanctuary and around the country — the help and healing needed to find permanent loving homes.

Stay connected

Make the animals part of your everyday life! We look forward to staying connected — and to saving more lives together.

Start by posting your Sanctuary photos to all your favorite social media sites – and don’t forget to tag @bestfriendsanimalsociety in your posts.