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:
Our mission is to protect, advocate for, and provide compassionate care to companion animals in need. We enrich the lives of families and the community through adoption services, education, connection to resources, and prevention of cruelty.
To operate an animals shelter which provides humane care for stray, lost or unwanted animals; to promote and enforce humane and responsible treatment of animals; and to reduce the number of animals born and ultimately destroyed.
Our mission is to rescue and re-home dogs age 6up. It's that simple. Older dogs left at shelters. Dogs whose owners died. Dogs whose families came apart. We aim to save them all!
Our mission is to improve the lives of homeless dogs and cats while also working to substantially lower the numbers of animals reproduced or relinquished.
The Humane Society of Mason County is a non-profit organization providing care and assistance to displaced or abused animals and control of pet and feral populations. It currently has a small office and veterinary clinic, a Mobile Animal Services Hospital and has plans to build an Animal Shelter and Resource Center to rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome animals in crisis.
To make a positive difference in the lives of dogs and cats by promoting health and well being through community outreach, animal welfare education, and low-cost spay/neuter assistance, thereby making the world a better place one life at a time.
With the help of our surrounding community we educate about animal welfare, help find homes for the once abandoned and abused animals, and provide those without a voice the protection they need.
To end economic euthanasia and animal
surrender due to inability to pay. To endeavor to keep qualifying owners and pets together for a better quality of life. And to assist rescues and animal shelters to provide life-saving care for homeless animals.
Our mission is to become a leading rescue organization who saves the unwanted, abused, forgotten, unloved, sick and injured dogs in our community. Our belief is that all animals deserve a chance at a life filled with unconditional love, respect, and the chance to have a permanent home where they are treated as a member of the family by a loving owner. Our hope is to ultimately bring an end to the suffering of abandoned, unwanted, neglected, exploited and abused pets.
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.
The Norfolk SPCA has been serving our community since 1892 and has guaranteed adoptions as a no-kill shelter for healthy, adoptable pets for more than 10 years. Originally founded because of concerns about the mistreatment of workhorses, the Norfolk SPCA now shelters, treats, rehabilitates and re-homes household companion animals throughout Hampton Roads to give them the extra time and care needed to find that forever home.
The Porterville Police Department / Animal Control Division is committed to the safety and security of the community providing quality animal services with excellence, honesty and integrity.
Crash's Landing is one of the largest no-kill cat shelters in the Midwest. Big Sid's Sanctuary is one of the largest no-kill shelters for cats with FeLV and FIV in the country, and the only shelter of its type in the State of Michigan. Both shelters have found their niche in their focus on at-risk adult stray cats, especially those who are injured, neglected, or sick.
We accomplish our mission by educating and training animal shelter staff, rescue groups, volunteers and fosters to provide high-quality, cost-effective care through workshops, webinars and consultations, providing outreach and educational materials to animal-welfare professionals and the public, and promoting cooperation and information sharing within the animal-welfare community.
A Cat's Life Rescue exists to provide a trap-neuter-release (TNR) program, adoptions, and medical care for cats, as well as education and therapeutic programs to the public.
BARC'S current mission is to combat the animal overpopulation problem in the high desert by spaying and neutering as many dogs as possible, thus assisting both animals and their owners by limiting the numbers of unwanted litters including the homeless, the elderly, low income and individuals and families from San Bernardino County struggling to make ends meet even with two or more incomes.
We promote and provide the resources, educationprograms needed to eliminate the killing of companion animals -- by implementing innovative and progressive programs in Dallas after studying the best practices of other cities (most notably Austin, Texas). We are currently focused on helping the healthytreatable pets who are at risk of being killed at Dallas Animal Services, by rescuing the pets that are at the greatest risk.
Stratford Animal Rescue Society (STARS) is a non-profit group founded in September 2000 with unanimous support from the Stratford Town Council. Our mission is to facilitate and expedite the adoptions of homeless animals into loving homes as well as, provide food, medical care and necessities for the animals impounded at the Stratford Animal Control Facility.
For 24 years the Northwoods Humane Society has been serving the animals and people of Sawyer County and the surrounding areas. We provide a sheltered enviroment, medical care, training and socialization to those animals in need who are waiting for homes. NHS's purpose continues to grow and respond to the needs set in front of us.