Find a Best Friends Partner

Best Friends partners are comprised 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 partners needs caring people like you to adopt, foster, donate, volunteer and advocate to help save the lives of pets where you live.

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Meridian, ID

We provide clean, healthy, and loving environments, food, shelter, and temporary housing in foster homes for abused, stray, orphaned or abandoned kittens until their adoptions. Animals are housed in cages only for special purposes: quarantine, injury care, other special needs and display at Petco stores. We promote public health and safety by encouraging vaccinations,including rabies.We educate the community about animal welfare issues.We find homes for cats and kittens in order to reduce the need for euthanasia.We promote the spay and neuter of pet cats and kittens.We are a no-kill shelter/rescue. We do not euthanize to free up space.We applaud and support the efforts of other shelters and rescues.

San Francisco, CA

Friends of San Francisco Animal CareControl (Friends) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2000, dedicated to improving the quality of life of San Francisco's shelter animals. The Friends Board supports our municipal shelter's efforts to better tend to the thousands of exotic, domestic and wild animals that come into Animal CareControl's care each year by providing education, enrichment and training programs.

Cuyahoga Falls, OH

Paws and Prayers, Inc.'s mission is to rescue, rehabilitate and re-home displaced dogs and cats; to prevent overpopulation through spay/neuter; to find the best home for each dog and cat in our care; to educate adopters and our community on pet care, spaying/neutering, training and suitable animal selection for their lifestyle; to provide a network of resources, volunteers and fosters for animals, animal shelters/pounds and the community.

Aliso Viejo, CA

Locks 4 Paws does all we can to keep pets with their people. Pets are more than just animals, they are family and all family matters.

Berkeley Heights, NJ

Home for Good Dog Rescue is a volunteer-based, 501(c)(3) non-profit animal rescue in Summit, New Jersey with offices in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. Our mission is to rescue, nurture and adopt dogs into loving homes for good. We are a network of foster homes committed to the well-being of adoptable pets. Home for Good rescues dogs from local shelters as well as high-kill shelters. We strive to give the dogs another chance at life.

Pocatello, ID

To protect the unprotected.

Golden, CO

Friends of Foothills Animal Shelter is the 501(c)(3) fundraising arm of Foothills Animal Shelter. Its sole purpose is to generate support to help the Shelter with its mission of making lives better for people and pets.

Saint Augusta, MN

We will provide a safe place for animals that are abused, neglected, abandoned and unwanted. We will also provide care for pets whose owners passed away, elderly and temporary housing for pets whose owners are incarcerated, homeless, medically unable to care for their pet or military deployment.

Ruther Glen, VA

Caroline County is a beautiful rural county in central Virginia--population 28,000. Because of its proximity to Northern Virginia, there is much expected growth which means more pets. We are striving to be ready for that growth by educating our current population as well as incoming residents to the responsibility of owning a pet--and particularly, the importance of spaying and neutering.

Plainfield, IL

SAYv Animal Organization is a startup animal welfare organization focused on supporting, creating and executing life-sayving solutions for homeless animals in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Aruba.

Fort Worth, TX

The mission of Don't Forget to Feed Me (DF2FM) is to supply pet food to local agencies in support of pet owners. By providing pet food for those in need during challenging financial times, we offer an option to surrendering, or worse, abandoning a family pet. Don't Forget to Feed Me helps to ensure that no pet owner ever has to choose between stay or go.

Philadelphia, PA

The Pennsylvania SPCA mission is to protect animals, prevent animal cruelty and improve the health and quality of life for animals in Pennsylvania.

Cherry Valley, NY

Our mission is to: Train rescue dogs as service dogs for soldiers injured in Iraq and Afghanistan; Name the dogs in honor of fallen soldiers and carefully pair the dogs with veterans to allow a better life for both soldier and dog; and Work with teens in a juvenile detention facility to train the dogs.

Saint Cloud, FL

We are a small cat rescue in the Central Florida community who adopts out as many kitties as we can into loving homes, making sure all our cats are fixed prior to adoption to help curb over-population. We also help treat and adopt out critical cats when others won't and try to help owners find solutions to keep or rehome their pet. Our goal is to reduce over-population, and to educate the public on the importance of spay/neuter as well as to help curb any behavior issues to keep pets in their current homes.

Horizon City, TX

We are a no kill shelter that all cats that are not adopted will have a forever, free roaming, caring, safe home to live out the rest of their lives.

Portland, OR

Sadie's Safe House aims to rescue, rehabilitate and re-home as many homeless Chihuahua's and Chihuahua Mixes as possible.

Aztec, NM

The mission of the Aztec Animal Shelter is to have a community where all animals receive love and attention, where they are treated with love and respect and protected from cruelty, abuse and neglect. To care for the animals in our custody and find them forever homes through rescue efforts and adoption. To bring about a time where there are no more homeless animals.

Reno, NV

Promoting responsible care of animals through education, proactive outreach, and regulation, making Washoe County a safe community.

Grangeville, ID

ARF intends to develop a Regional Animal Shelter that will: protect the welfare of abandoned and abused pets, provide care and shelter to pets, spay and neuter to prevent future unwanted pets, secure adoptive homes for pets, and support community awareness of ethical treatment of animals.

Anniston, AL

The Encore Enrichment Center for Shelter Dogs was established to help local animal shelters save more dogs by improving their chances for adoption and retention in loving forever homes.

Sand Springs, OK

Animal Welfare staff are committed to protecting citizens and their pets by investigating animal bites, stray cats and dogs, animals nuisances, aggressive or dangerous dogs, as well as animal neglect, abandonment, and cruelty cases. Dogs and cats that are placed in the City's care are treated humanely and, if possible, are offered for adoption if not claimed by their owners.