Find a Best Friends Partner

Find a Best Friends Network Partner

The Best Friends Network is made up of thousands of public and private shelters, rescue groups, spay/neuter organizations and other animal welfare groups, all working to save the lives of dogs and cats in communities like yours across the country.

Each and every one of our network partners needs caring people like you to adopt, foster, donate, volunteer and advocate to help save the lives of pets where you live.

Find a network partner near you:

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Coastal Animal Services Authority

San Clemente, CA

CASA will strive to facilitate the placement of stray and unwanted animals and pets in desirable homes; to establish and maintain an animal shelter, which promotes the health, care and handling, and prevent over population and the prevention of cruelty to animals. The animals in our care are never euthanized due to lack space, or due to exceeding a predetermined amount of time. Read moreRead less

Animal Protection Society of Durham

Durham, NC

The Animal Protection Society of Durham (APS) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that has been helping animals in our community since 1970. We have managed the Durham County Animal Shelter since 1990. APS provides housing and medical care for nearly 5,000 stray, surrendered, abandoned, abused and neglected animals each year. We also offer spay neuter assistance and outreach services to our community. Read moreRead less

Lake Humane Society

Mentor, OH

To protect animals and build connections between pets and people through advocacy and education.

The Chloe Animal Aid Organization, Inc.

Nashville, GA

*Our Mission
At The Chloe Animal Aid Organization, Inc. , our mission is to help assist families with the cost of pet ownership.

*Our Goal
The goal of The Chloe AAO is to reduce shelter overcrowding and euthanasia rates by prioritizing to keep current pets in their homes.

Anderson County Animal Rescue Foundation

Clinton, TN

Anderson County Animal Rescue Foundation (AC ARF) is committed to promoting the welfare of animals in our community. Through direct support, outreach programs and partnerships, we work to create a better, kinder world, where there are no more homeless pets. AC ARF serves its community with a variety of programs that improve the welfare of animals and their caretakers, reduces animal overpopulation and the burden pets place on our municipal shelters and rescues. Read moreRead less

Good Home Pet Adoptions Inc

Brooklyn, NY

Our mission is to help and support unwanted animals in need of rescue from suffering, abandonment, abuse and/or euthanasia by responsibly fostering them and facilitating their adoptions into loving and committed homes.

Pope Memorial Humane Society Cocheco Valley

Dover, NH

Our mission is to provide quality, compassionate care and shelter to our animals, in partnership with educating the community concerning humane animal treatment and welfare. We place animals into forever homes, promote spaying and neutering, assist with cruelty investigations and rescue, raise awareness within the community, encourage volunteer involvement, and are an active voice and advocate for the well-being of animals. Read moreRead less

Hood River Adopt A Dog

Hood River, OR

Provide appropriate and humane services which meet the needs of dogs and our community. A community where dog owners are responsible, there is no pet homelessness, dogs are safe and dog-human interactions are positive.

Mama Zoey & Puppies

Plainfield, IL

Mama Zoey and Puppies Rescue strives to give a voice to all the discarded dogs that would otherwise be euthanized. To lend a hand and give our heart in everything that we do. We promise to leave no dog behind and do our best to get them into a foster program, where we will find them a forever home. We are a foster based rescue and without the help of donations, fosters, volunteers and amazing crew members; none of this would be possible. We want to help as many dogs as we possibly can through all walks of life. We will never turn down any breed or age. Read moreRead less

Friends of Parkville Animal Shelter

Kansas City, MO

FOPAS's primary mission is to humanely house, care for, provide medical treatment for, and find permanent homes for the abandoned and stray dogs and cats from Platte, Clay and, to some extent, surrounding counties which have come under our care. The work of the organization is carried out almost exclusively by dedicated volunteers and is financed through donations and fund raising events. FOPAS believes that our entire community is benefited by the compassion and humanity shown in caring for animals which have been discarded. The animals cannot speak for themselves, so hopefully FOPAS speaks and acts for them. Adoptee families which meet the standards set by FOPAS are accepted regardless of location. Read moreRead less

Detroit Animal Care and Control

Detroit, MI

The mission of Detroit Animal Care and Control is to: to promote and protect the health, safety and welfare of the residents and visitors of the City of Detroit from animal bites, zoonotic disease, or traffic hazards, to maintain the highest standards of humane animal sheltering, to promote the placement of animals into homes and to encourage responsible pet ownership through education, enforcement, and community partnership. Read moreRead less

Cat Republic, Inc.

Brooklyn, NY

Cat Republic helps the cats of NYC (and their caretakers) by providing spay/neuter services for feral cats, urgent medical care for sick companion animals, and adoption services for cats and kittens.

Richmond Animal League

North Chesterfield, VA

"SAVING LIVES: Providing hope, help, and homes for animals in need" is the mission of the Richmond Animal League (RAL). RAL works collaboratively in Central Virginia to increase adoptions and spay/neuter activity and reduce euthanasia throughout the region. This is accomplished via the operation of a dedicated shelter facility, a low cost spay/neuter clinic on-site and a network of volunteer foster care givers. Read moreRead less

Sonora Cat Rescue

Sonora, CA

We exist to serve and protect the cat population in our area! We do this by: Fostering homeless cats in loving homes, finding adoptive homes for cats, working with local vets and clinics to spay and neuter as many cats as possible (both adoptable cats and through trap-neuter-return programs), and feeding feral colonies. Read moreRead less

Grand Valley Pets Alive

Grand Junction, CO

GVPA is an all volunteer non-profit organization whose mission is to reduce the number of homeless cats and dogs in Mesa County.

Start Over Rover

Hastings, NE

We are a No-Kill animal rescue organization comprised of like-minded people whose mission is to rescue, provide sanctuary, medical treatment, sterilization, and rehabilitation to relinquished, abandoned, abused, or neglected animals. Our ultimate goal is re-homing these animals into stable, responsible new homes. The top priority of our group is to educate the public about the companion animal overpopulation and to stress the importance of spaying and neutering animals. We will advocate for animals who are imprisoned in puppy mills and catteries. We will fight locally and nationally for their humane treatment with a goal of ending commercial mill-style breeding of companion animals. Read moreRead less

Happily Ever After Animal Sanctuary, Inc.

Marion, WI

Our mission is to provide a loving home to every companion animal that enters our care. Lifetime guaranteed. We make a pact with every animal that enters our care. Each one is guaranteed a loving home for the rest of their life, whether through adoption or as a part of our family at the Sanctuary.

Mountaineer Spay Neuter Assistance Program

Morgantown, WV

To make spay/neuter the most common solution to reducing the number of homeless, abandoned, and feral animals - thereby eliminating euthanasia as a necessary means of pet population control - in Monongalia County WV.

Hoofbeats And Pawprints Rescue

Natchez, MS

Hoofbeats and Pawprints Rescue (HPR) works to help homeless pets by first providing safe shelter and care, then by finding placement - primarily through relocation to other communities with greater adoption opportunities. HPR works with other area animals shelters, rescues, individuals, pet owners and law enforcement agencies to help place homeless pets and decrease the need for euthanasia of shelter pets and increase opportunities for successful placement of adoptable pets. Read moreRead less

Rescate Fenix

San Diego, CA

Rescate Fenix aka Rescue Fenix, is an all-volunteer animal rescue mobilized by the feeling of compassion for animal welfare, especially those in danger, sick, neglect and abused. We are dedicated to creating safe environments for our rescues to recovery by providing medical care, behavior rehabilitation and lifetime support for animals with special needs. Our goal is to find each rescue the perfect furever home where they will continue to thrive and be loved. Read moreRead less

Kennel Eviction Rescue

Hacienda Heights, CA

Kennel Eviction Rescue is an organization dedicated to providing better shelter options for displaced, neglected, and abandoned animals in Southern California. We take in strays as well as pull from high kill shelters. Our goal is to help animals be set up for success in going into adoptive homes to lower the chances of returns. Read moreRead less