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What type of besties are you and your pet?

Are you and your pet a dynamic duo — there for each other through thick and thin, good times and bath times, creamy and crunchy? Would you call yourselves the snooze-some twosome, blissful to burrow under a single blanket? Or are you yin and yang, two sides to a perfect licky mat?

Enjoy this just-for-fun, five-question quiz to find out how we’d describe you and your best pal. Don’t forget to share on social media and compare results with your friends and family!

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Make a lifesaving difference for a bestie-to-be

Every action you take helps to save animals waiting for homes of their own.

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Adopt a pet

When you adopt a cat or dog from a rescue group or animal shelter, you’re making a lifesaving difference for a loving and grateful animal.
Find adoptable cats and dogs near you
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Volunteer in your community

Whatever your experience or interests, there are countless ways to volunteer your time for pets where you live.
Getting started as a volunteer
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Foster a pet

Opening your heart and home to a furry houseguest, even for just a few nights, helps those pets while freeing up space in the shelter so more lives can be saved.
The fun of fostering
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Keep pets with their families 

Best Friends is working around the country to protect the rights of pets (especially big dogs) and their people, so pets can stay with their loving families — and you can help with your signature. 
Help keep pets with families 

Find great gear for you and your bestie

You’ll find clothes, accessories, pet supplies, gift ideas, and more at our online store. All proceeds go straight back to the animals, so we can save more lives together.

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Read about pets who have found their besties

These stories of hope, love, and resilience are what having a best friend is all about.

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Faces of No-Kill: Brave cat is full of love

Trinity is blind, but she doesn’t let that hold her back from pursuing her true passion: making biscuits.
She received just the right recipe for healing
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Shy no more: One cat’s beautiful breakthrough

Thanks to time, patience, and chin scratches in his foster homes, today 10-year-old Smokey is exactly where he belongs.
New home, new beginning
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Pet adoptions skyrocket at Indiana shelter

Jeffersonville Animal Shelter celebrates the first no-kill month in its history.
Helping animals get home faster
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About Best Friends Animal Society

Best Friends is working to end the killing of dogs and cats in U.S. shelters in part by getting more pets out of shelters and into loving homes.

We’ve come a long way since the first known city reached no-kill in 1994, and now we’re closer than ever to making the entire country no-kill. Today, roughly 2,500 shelters are no-kill throughout the U.S. — and 700 more are just 100 pets or fewer away from reaching that milestone.

Best Friends is committed to working with passionate people like you to save homeless pets through adoption, volunteering, fostering, and advocacy. In addition to our lifesaving centers around the U.S, we also founded and run the nation's largest no-kill sanctuary for companion animals.

Working together, we can save homeless pets in our communities and secure a better future for our best friends. Together, we will bring the whole country to no-kill. 

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