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:
The Tucker County Animal Shelter is a county-operated No Kill shelter. We continually strive for the best possible outcome for each individual animal that enters our care. We focus on helping the community with TNR, spay/neuter assistance, adoption placements, and resources to serve the underserved. Our humane officer completes welfare checks as well as animal cruelty investigations and is trained to assist people in the best care for their pets.
We are a German Shepherd Dog Rescue with a main focus of saving Shepherds in high kill, low traffic shelters across Texas. Our secondary focus is community outreach making them aware of the situations we face in shelters, while educating the public to reduce the stigma around the breed. We are a 100% volunteer based group.
The Fix Our Ferals mission is to humanely end overpopulation of cats and dogs in Contra Costa and Alameda Counties in the San Francisco Bay Area's East Bay.We provide affordable spay-neuter for all cats and dogs to community members and animal rescue organizations.And we provide a very reduced rate for community cats.We are also expanding the safety-net for at-risk cats and dogs throughout the two counties by offering low-cost surgeries.This helps low-income community members keep their beloved pets.Additionally, we collaborate with municipal shelters by promoting and providing spay-neuter to prevent turn-ins of cats and dogs to the shelters, and by helping shelters with spay-neuter overflow, so shelter animals can be adopted or released from the shelters sooner.
Our organization is dedicated to promoting the health and welfare of animals. Our goal is to aide pet owners, educate on spay & neuter, preventative care, and promote the rights of animals. We understand that hard times happen, and pets nor their owners should be torn away from each other simply because of this, we aide owners with food and vet care when funds are available. The biggest responsibility is keeping pets with their families where they belong.
he mission of the Idaho Humane Society is to advocate the welfare and responsible care of animals, protect them from neglect and cruelty, and promote humane education, awareness and compassion.
P.E.T.S. (Providing Essentials for Tehama Shelter) is a non-profit 501 (c) 3 dedicated to improving the welfare and creating public awareness of all the abandoned, neglected and abused animals in Tehama County.In addition, we are strongly committed to assist the Tehama County Animal Care Center (TCACC) in completing their mission of practicing and promoting responsible compassionate care to all animals, both in their care and in the community.
Smiley Tails Rescue is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2019 by three crazydog ladies who share the same passion and vision for ending the homeless animal problem in Southern California. We re-home dogs of all ages and breeds from high-kill shelters and high-risk situations. We have a strict screening process that involves thorough applications, interviews, and home checks. Smiley Tails is foster based, volunteer run and donor funded. All donations go towards spay/neuter, vaccinations, microchips, veterinary and surgical care and training. We offer appointment-based adoptions in addition to our monthly adoption events. Our vision is to Clear the Shelters until there is not one animal left without a home to call their own.
Krazy for Kats, Inc. is a 501 C3 non-profit rescue and adoption group that is dedicated to helping the homeless and abandoned cats and kittens in Los Angeles. We serve the community by offering rescue, rehabilitation and re-homing all of the animals in our care.
Our mission is to provide responsive, professional, and caring law enforcement services to all the people of Merced County. As a public agency, we provide prompt, courteous service to our customers while protecting their safety. We are focused on our goals and steadfast in our resolve to meet the needs of the various communities within our jurisdiction.
It is our mission to provide for the adoption and placement of rescued cats and kittens in permanent homes. We are further dedicated to the care and wellbeing of these homeless cats and to educating the public on the need to spay/neuter pets, the prevention of animal cruelty, responsible pet ownership, and actively encouraging TNR in our community. We believe that every cat or kitten has the right to have a loving home. We don't give up on our cats.
The Wag Workshops humane education mission is the prevention of animal cruelty by supporting humane education services in the Southern Maryland communities of Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary's Counties.
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APARN's Mission is to rescue pugs in need (whether abandoned, homeless, unwanted, or otherwise unable to remain in their current homes), provide medical care and emotional support, and place them into loving, permanent adoptive homes in Arizona. We strive to educate the public about the Pug dog breed, including its personality, healthy weight, special needs and care, and the importance of spay/neuter.
Our mission is to rescue animals from situations that are abusive, endangering and neglectful; to provide foster homes for these animals; to provide necessary veterinary care; to promote the importance of spaying/neutering and assist others with referrals to low cost spay/neuter programs and; to place rescued animals into permanent adoptive homes or larger approved partner rescue agencies.
Our mission is to end the cycle of homeless animals by saving dogs from Central Texas shelters that have no hope of a better life, encouraging our community to spay and neuter their pets, and provide education and resources to help pets live a long and healthy life. Austin Dog Rescue is an all-volunteer foster home based 501c3 non-profit.
We are a rural facility. We are trying to provide education about spay and neuter programs as well as the treatment of animals. We are making the lives of pets better day by day in hope of one day never needing a shelter.
Our mission is to continually support and control the population of a cat colony located at one of the major casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada. Our volunteers provide daily wet food, dry food and fresh water for 40-45 cats. We routinely track all cats so we know when newcomers arrive and need to be trapped for spaying/neutering. All our cats have names and a few are friendly! We love our colony cats and take care of them as if they are our own. CasinoCatsLV@gmail.com
organization dedicated to provide care for the wellbeing of homeless cats and kittens through our humane trapping and rescue efforts and to educate and encourage people to spay / neuter their pets and to actively encourage TNVR (Trap-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return) in the community. We specialize in humane trapping (TNVR) services
Homeless Tails is a non-profit 501(c)(3) cat rescue organization dedicated to saving and finding loving homes for cats. We provide low cost spay/neuter, temporary shelter, adoptions and Trap-Neuter-Return services to all cats in need. Homeless Tails gives a chance to cats life and society were not kind to. Our mission is to save as many cats as we can and give them a chance to be happy and loved.
In January of 2011, Life is Better (LIBR) started a partnership with Denver Animal Shelter and Control to create a program that would allow animals considered medically at risk - those that are pregnant, nursing with babies, or orphans under 2lbs or 8 weeks - to escape the municipal environment via transfer to LIBR's foster program, thus decreasing illness and mortality rates.