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.
Find a partner near you:
Our ongoing mission is saving, protecting, and rehoming golden retrievers and golden retriever blends that have lost their home and family.
Vintage Pet Rescue VPR is a retirement home for senior, geriatric or hospice dogs (and soon cats) sourced from shelters across the eastern United States.
Mostly Muttz Rescue is an IRS registered, 501(c)3, public charity that is an all-volunteer, foster based canine rescue striving to keep man's best friend from dying alone in the shelter system. At Mostly Muttz Rescue, we do not limit our life saving efforts to just those dogs that will be the easiest placements, but often choose to save dogs suffering from curable illness within the shelter system. It is our belief that every dog, regardless of health, deserves at least a fighting chance to live, to love and to be loved for the entirety of their life.
Bowie Citizens for Local Animal Welfare advocates for the welfare of animals in the Greater Bowie area. We support the the City of Bowie's short-term animal holding facility by donating supplies and offering volunteer assistance and advocating for animal welfare before local governments. Support of Prince George's County Animal Services by providing supplies; supporting their volunteer program and foster program. Promoting our Pet Food Pantry. Supporting community cats within the area through an active TNR program. Helping with the placement of homeless pets and the return of lost pets.
Minn-Kota PAAWS is a low-cost, high-quality spay/neuter clinic serving pet owners in the Fargo, ND/Moorhead, MN area. We help to reduce pet overpopulation by making spay/neuter accessible to all pet owners.
Barney's Farm Sanctuary provides a foster or forever home to unwanted animals of all kinds.
Second Chance Small Dog Rescue is a nonprofit organization, dedicated to rescue, rehabilitation, and placement of small dogs into suitable homes. We are solely run by volunteers who have the time, patience, and love of small dogs to make this effort possible.
Operate Rescue, Rehab, Transportation Center. Taking in dogs from kill shelters until transport to Rescue Partners is arranged. Providing advertising for animals from our local municipal shelter, the City of Abilene Animal Service. Provide rebates on Spay/Neuter of animals adopted from Abilene Animal Shelter during special events. Providing assistance to law enforcement officials in over 22 West Texas counties in investigating abuse and neglect cases. We provide medical care and housing for abused and neglected animals from all over West Texas.
HONESTY, INTEGRITY and TRUST are the three main pillars of our mission at The HIT Living Foundation. We strive to live by this ethos within our foundation and personal lives. The HIT Living Foundation has come to fruition through the willingness to act on our compassion for others and by doing so with open hearts and objective minds.
Cat Haven's mission is to lead Baton Rouge in becoming a no-kill community for cats and kittens by providing care, shelter, and adoption services as well as advocating routine spaying and neutering for population control.
Animal Balance works with the local authorities to organize community-based sterilization programs for cats and dogs on islands and areas where the local ecology is fragile, or where the local population cannot afford to sterilize the animals. By humanely reducing and controlling cat and dog populations the community is healthier and the native species are protected, helping to conserve biodiversity in fragile ecosystems around the world
CatCafe Lounge is the first nonprofit Cat Cafe in Los Angeles! Our goal is to offer a relaxing space to increase adoptionsreduce euthanizations.
Love At First Mutt is a Los Angeles County based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. We are an all volunteer and foster home based rescue. We are dedicated to saving homeless and abandoned dogs from the overcrowded animal shelters.
Suncatcher Sanctuary is a cat sanctuary dedicated to saving cats with special needs both locally and internationally.
Pretty Kitty TNR is a cat rescue that focuses on Trap, Neuter, and Release, and cat adoptions. Our mission is to safely and humanely reduce the overpopulated feline community by using the method of trap, neuter, and release or TNR. We help felines in need and provide medical attention and shelter to those who are unable to be released. Those who can not be released back into the wild, are put up for adoption to be given a better life.
We are a community-based animal welfare, education and rescue org located in LA that serves the Hollywood, West Hollywood, Hollywood Hills, and Studio City/East Valley communities. We focus on underage kittens, animals requiring medical and community services ranging from search and rescue to low-cost spay/neuter and vaccine clinics.
Our mission is to promote Animal Welfare and Safety with compassion through adoption, sheltering, education, and community assistance. Our vision is to build a compassionate Centre Region where animals thrive. PAWS will lead the way by serving as a premier resource for companion animals and their caregivers.
Dedicated to helping the helpless - the voiceless - the discarded - the abused - and often forgotten-. no matter the circumstances.
LMR's mission statement is to reduce animal overpopulation through rescue, rehabilitation and rehoming. lostmittensrescue@gmail.com
At the SPCA Serving Erie County, our mission is to create a more humane community through education; rescuing, protecting, and enhancing the lives of animals; and nurturing the bond between animals and people.