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How Best Friends is working to help those affected by Hurricane Florence

Best Friends Animal Society is committed to helping Hurricane Florence Animals. Ma...
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Looking back at Hurricane Harvey and looking forward in Houston

Review of Best Friends Animal Society's involvement in rescue efforts after Hurric...
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How a sweet pit bull went from barking to blissful

Sweet, sensitive pit bull is anxious and barks a lot in a municipal shelter, so sh...
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Animal control: The no-kill movement’s not-so-secret ally

No-kill cities, towns and communities work collaboratively and noncontentiously wi...
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Community cat playbook

Return-to-field (RTF) humane management models get stray and feral cats fixed and ...
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Misinformation and scaremongering likely to undermine TNR efforts in Hawaii

Toxoplasmosis to blame for recent Hawaiian monk seal deaths puts trap-neuter-retur...
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Kittens, kittens, kittens!

Best Friends in Los Angeles has committed to save every kitten from L.A. city shel...
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Nothing to hide: The benefits of transparency

Sharing data and goals can help an animal welfare organization’s public image, sup...
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Dogs have it. Do we?

James Gorman's article in the New York Times titled ‘Lassie Got Help, Would Your D...
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No-kill 2025: Small town, big challenges

Best Friends assists with animal lifesaving efforts at under-resourced and over-bu...
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Crazy talk in The New York Times

In a New York Times misguided opinion piece, Carol Mithers says low- and no-cost ...
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Two days, hundreds of dogs and cats adopted

Around 500 shelter dogs and cats are adopted at the fall 2018 NKUT Super Adoption ...
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The Remarkable Dr. Kate Hurley: Evolution of a cat lifesaving legend

University of California, Davis' Koret Shelter Medicine Program director Dr. Kate ...
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Best Friends National Conference in Los Angeles

Learn and be inspired by watching live stream of Julie Castle’s keynote address fr...
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800-dog transport from Tex-Mex border begins

The first 70 of 800 dogs from south Texas are on the road to shelters in Colorado ...
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