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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Mojave, CA
We can proudly say that we are the first Antelope Valley LostFound network for pets
Holbrook, AZ
We are supporting our local City Animal Control services by assisting with spay/neuter and vaccination clinics, holding adoption and education events, and educating community members regarding responsible pet parenting.We are working via Facebook, our local newspaper, local radio station, community groups, school children, and pet owners to bring awareness to the animals in our area and the animals in our animal shelter as well as the problems in our animal community including high numbers of strays and lost animals as well as disease. We work closely in our Holbrook Animal Shelter to assist with the welfare and socialization of our shelter animals. We work closely with other animal welfare organizations to find alternative placement for our animals that are not being adopted in the community.
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Milwaukee, WI
We are dedicated to helping create a no kill community by humanely reducing the homeless cat population in the Milwaukee area through targeted trap-neuter-return (TNR).
Queen Creek, AZ
Welcome to Cooper's Chance Animal Rescue. We are a Green focused, 501c3 nonprofit, no kill animal rescue established in 2006. Our mission is to rescue, rehabilitate and re-home abused and neglected animals. We are dedicated to the welfare of these animals and the gentle ecosystem that we share. We rescue all breeds, including pit bulls, and focus our efforts on larger, elderly, sick or injured animals in need of extra care. Our rescued pets are placed into loving foster homes and receive one on one attention, complete vet care, training and socialization. We also educate the public on humane and responsible pet ownership through nonprofit partnerships, public education programs and grass root efforts within communities.
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Wausau, WI
The mission of the Humane Society of Marathon County is to inspire and engage the community to end animal suffering and commit to responsible pet ownership. The vision of the Humane Society of Marathon County is a cruelty free community enriched by the special bond between people and animals.
Grand Junction, CO
We strive to create an oasis for homeless pets while they await their forever homes. We will create a social, stress-free, enriched environment that doesn't make you feel sad for the animals- it dares you to do better! We encourage the community to come visit our sanctuary and check out a dog for a hike or a sleepover!
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Breinigsville, PA
To educate the public on the necessity of spaying and neutering, which will drastically reduce the number of free-roaming cats. To help reduce the vast number of cats that are taken to shelters and killed every day because of lack of space. To promote compassion and empathy toward cats and all animals.
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North Wales, PA
We are a group of volunteers whose goal is to save the lives of homeless dogs suffering in high-kill shelters, as well as owner-surrender dogs who need to be re-homed. We pull dogs from various shelters and provide foster homes until they are adopted. In doing so, we hope to provide an alternative to the purchase of puppy mill and pet store dogs. We strive to match each dog with the right family.
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Pensacola, FL
The Pensacola Humane Society is committed to improving the lives of companion animals in our community through advocacy, adoption, education and sanctuary.
Gaithersburg, MD
The Sanctuary's Mission is to provide a Helping Hand for senior pets. For our residents, we provide love, affection, and shelter. Many receive medical care, such as diagnostic screenings, dental care, surgery, and medications.For other senior dogs, we provide a Helping Hand by getting the word out about their special needs, and encourage others to give them a forever home through our House with a Heart Sanctuary of Your Own program.
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Santa Fe, NM
Promote kind and humane treatment of all animals. Promote understanding of ownership and care of animals. Promote early spay/neuter of all animals in an effort to reduce the number of unwanted animals euthanized in shelters. Educate the public as to the health and safety benefits of early spay/neuter. To provide low/no cost spay/neuter of cats and dogs. Facilitate Trap/Neuter/Release projects
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Berwick, PA
Our mission is to work to TNR (Trap, Neuter, Release) the stray, feral and community cats in the immediate and surrounding communities of Columbia County as well as educate the public on the importance of sterilization for stray and owned pets while additionally acting as a resource and support for both the animals and people of our community.
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Cedar Park, TX
Pawsitive Karma Rescue was founded on the principle of Karmic Law - essentially one good deed leads to another. Every time one of our animals is adopted into a loving home we are able to save another animal from almost certain death at the shelter. PKR is a 100% foster and volunteer based rescue group. The animals we pull from local shelters go immediately into foster care. No rescue facility to maintain means no overhead costs.
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Stevensville, MT
The mission of Heidi's Kitten Rescue is to give a second chance to as many cats and kittens in need as possible through networking with other shelters and rescues, volunteer transporters and fosters from a wide area in and around Montana. We intend to remain a small and flexible organization, willing to serve all companion animals when and where most needed.
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Roanoke, VA
Our mission is two fold: to increase awareness that companion and farm animals are not objects for human use but are living, sentient creatures deserving respect and kindness. Angels of Assisi is also dedicated to providing much needed services to pet owners to make caring for their pets easier and lasting relationships are formed.
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Buena Park, CA
Our mission is to rescue and rehabilitate as many abandoned and neglected cats as we can each year. Prior to adoption, we spay/neuter, vaccinate, de-worm, de-flea, micro-chip and FIV/FELV test all cats and kittens. We find loving, safe and permanent homes for all of the cats that we take in to our rescue. We have TNR projects at 2 feral colony locations where we feed, give fresh water to and monitor daily.
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Rogue River, OR
At the Miss Gabriel foundation our mission is to give severely neglected dogs a place to heal and recover from the physical and emotional damage caused by severe neglect. This will be done through constant love, care and the healing power of a stable accepting pack.