Your local shelters and rescue groups
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. We'll continue to share more about how you can help save the lives of homeless pets.
No-kill is within reach, thanks to you
With your help — whether you adopt, give, volunteer, or use your voice to protect animals — we'll end the killing in America's animal shelters.
Adopt
When you adopt a pet from a rescue group or animal shelter instead of buying from a breeder or puppy mill, you’re providing a lifesaving second chance.
Give
With a monthly gift, you'll provide homeless pets with the steady healing and support they need to find loving homes.
Join
We believe every pet deserves a home, whether it’s a house with a fenced yard, a cozy apartment, or a safe outdoor space for community cats. Do you agree?
Save homeless pets and win a year’s supply of pet food
With your help we can save every at-risk pet in a shelter this year and secure a better future for our best friends.
The animals are so grateful for your support, and we are, too! That's why we're teaming up with Blue Buffalo to give away a year's supply of pet food to show our appreciation.
Help save animals in your community
At Best Friends, our goal is to get more dogs and cats out of shelters and into homes and make every shelter in America no-kill.
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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.
More than 2 out of 3 U.S. shelters reached no-kill in 2025, and hundreds more are within reach of that goal. Working together, we can save the lives of homeless pets in communities like yours — and nationwide — ensuring that the places we call home are better for everyone, pets included.
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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Compassion in action
Looking for a little inspiration? Check out these pets and their stories of hope, love, and resilience.
More ways to help homeless pets today
Every action you take for homeless pets in your community and across the U.S. helps to save their lives and gets the country closer to no-kill; we’ll show you how.
Let's be friends!
When you give us your email address we'll send you emails with inspiring stories and ways to make a difference for animals in your community and around the U.S.
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.
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