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Which animal is your Sanctuary soulmate this season?

Will it be a season of sledding with Sparky and Spot? Or a virtual sleigh ride on the sofa with Simba? However you holiday, know that there’s someone special who shares your celebratory style.

On any given day, our animal sanctuary is a healing home for up to 1,600 dogs, cats, birds, bunnies, horses, pigs and other animals. Answer five quick questions to reveal which animal at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary is your soulmate this holiday season, and don’t forget to share and compare your results on social media!

 

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Connect with us on social media to stay in the loop about the lifesaving progress we’re making together. And we'll send you all the ways you can help save homeless pets when you give us your email address.

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Find your soulmate at Best Friends

When you adopt and add a new pet to your family this holiday season, you not only save a life, you free up space for other pets in need.

When you adopt an animal from Best Friends, sharing your life with an amazing new companion is just the beginning. As a new adopter, you become part of an extraordinary community of people devoted to their own pets — and to saving the lives of others. Indeed, you become part of the Best Friends family. 

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Adopt to make more room for incoming pets at the Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah.
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Best Friends in Los Angeles

Adopting is an incredibly fun and fulfilling way to help save homeless pets in LA.
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Best Friends in Salt Lake City

Give a pet a home and alleviate the burden on shelters in Salt Lake City.
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Best Friends in New York

Adopt to be a part of a lifesaving team working to create a bright future for homeless pets in NYC.
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Best Friends in Northwest Arkansas

Adopting a pet is a rewarding way to make a lifetime of difference for pets.
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Best Friends in Houston

Houston embraces community-based sheltering to prepare pets for adoption.
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Best Friends is partnering with these communities throughout the country to help save their homeless pets, and you can be a part of that lifesaving when you raise your hand to adopt:

Arkansas  •  Navajo Nation  •  St. George  •  Virginia  •  No-Kill Los Angeles (NKLA)  •  No-Kill Utah (NKUT)
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Adopt near you

Shelters and rescue groups in your community need caring people like you to adopt, foster, donate, volunteer, and advocate to help save the lives of pets.

When you give us your email address, we'll send you a list of shelters where you live and share more about how you can help save the lives of homeless pets.

Your new BFF is in town!

These adorable, adoptable dogs and cats near you are looking for homes of their own:

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Help homeless pets this holiday season

Everyone deserves a home — and that includes pets in shelters.

And when they don’t have a home, they’re at risk of being killed. In fact, a dog or cat is killed in America’s shelters every 90 seconds just because they don’t have a safe place to call home. But you can help change that. No matter where you live, you can make a lifesaving difference for animals waiting for homes of their own.

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See how your community is doing

With your help we can save every at-risk pet in a shelter this year and secure a better future for our best friends.
Is your community no-kill?
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Volunteer to save pets

Volunteers — passionate, caring people like you — are the heartbeat of our organization. Whatever your interests and wherever you live, there’s a way you can help.
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Foster a pet

Fostering a pet is a short-term commitment with long-term impact. By opening your home to a pet for even a day or two, you can save lives.
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Looking for a little inspiration?

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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. Of the roughly 3,900 shelters operating in America today, 1,300 of them are not yet no-kill, but nearly half are close with 100 or fewer additional pets to be saved, and we know what to do to get them there.

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.