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:
Animal Rescue of the Rockies pulls homeless at-risk dogs and cats from overcrowded shelters and places them in loving foster and adoptive homes throughout Colorado. Each year we adopt out an average of 2,000 lucky pets. We have a TNR program and work closely with other TNR groups to help community cat populations. Each pet is spayed or neutered, microchipped, vaccinated, and treated for any known veterinary needs prior to adoption. Since our beginnings in Breckenridge, Colorado in 2003, we have expanded our services and outreach to encompass the entire Front Range area and beyond. Most of our fosters and volunteers live in the Denver, Boulder, and Fort Collins areas. Our organization is foster-home based, although we do have two small cat adoption facilities, one in Fairplay, Colorado, and one at the Just Cats store in Denver. We also operate a thrift shop at 203 N. Main St. in Breckenridge, Colorado.
4 Paws 4 Life rescue. is a 501(c)3 non-profit volunteer-based organization dedicated to rescuing dogs from high-kill shelters nationwide. We operate through a network of foster homes in the metro Denver and Colorado Springs areas. Our efforts are funded by tax-deductible contributions from compassionate people who care and want to help make a difference... one pet at a time.
Bergen Spay and Neuter Alliance takes a comprehensive approach to providing spay and neuter services in the most underserved communities in Colorado. Our mobile surgical unit allows us to work directly in the highest-need communities in our state. Our high-impact work improves the lives of dogs and cats, their owners, and the entire communities we serve.
We advocate for the well-being of dogs everywhere, creating a world where they have a good life, free from neglect, abuse, and suffering.
Rocky Mountain Feline Rescue's mission is to care for and shelter homeless cats and kittens until we can find them a permanent, loving home.
K9 Global Rescue is an organization of veterans and volunteers working globally to protect and advocate for dogs. Our mission includes disaster relief, ending the dog meat trade, banning puppy mills, providing health services, facilitating adoptions, and collaborating with governments to promote responsible dog ownership and welfare worldwide.
PawsCo is dedicated to reducing pet homelessness by keeping animals in their homes through partnering with the Food Bank of the Rockies for a year round Pet Food Drive, and serving as a partner to shelters and rescues to foster, rehabilitate and adopt out the most in-need animals - animals not thriving in a shelter.
MaxFund is a non-profit, true no-kill animal shelter and adoption center that challenges the traditional methods of animal sheltering by leading the no-kill movement in Colorado. MaxFund strives to give animals, including the injured, abandoned and abused a second chance at life.
We advocate and care for stray, feral, and abandoned felines. A Community Saving a Colony is our slogan as colony caretakers are vital to the survival of many strays and we support them by providing TNR services and adoption using socialization when possible. Also whether it be about a colony in need of TNR or an injured cat needing care, any information received from the public aids us in our rescue efforts to best meet the needs of community felines. While we do provide TNR service, we believe it should be a last resort measure. Meaning, that lost cats should be reunited with their owners, very sick cats humanely euthanized, and those capable of socializing adopted out to good homes.
A Friend of Jack Rescue is a Colorado, foster-based 501(c)3 non-profit rescue dedicated to finding loving, lasting homes for unwanted dogs and puppies.
The mission of Colorado Canine Rescue is to rescue dogs slated to be euthanized in local and distant animal shelters. We offer adoption opportunities, giving the dogs the time and care they need to find their forever home. We provide rescued dogs with individualized plans, veterinary and behavioral, to prepare them for adoption.
Soul Dog Rescue exists to humanely control the pet overpopulation problem thru focused and aggressive spay/neuter programs in underserved communities. To partner with the communities where we work, in order to create sustainable change through collaboration and community buy-in.
Pawsitive Restorations Animal Rescue rescues, rehabilitates, and gives temporary housing to at-risk animals. PRAR nurses these animals back to health and facilitates finding forever homes for abandoned, stray, abused, and injured companion animals who are at risk for euthanasia, and works to limit the overpopulation of animals through community education, and spay/neuter regimens.
Demi's Animal Rescue is a no kill animal rescue that focuses on solving pet homelessness through adoption, spay/neuter and pet retention. We do not discriminate against any animal that is in need and open our door to all regardless of their breed, age or special care required. We strive to see the day that pet homelessness is eliminated worldwide. Once an animal reaches Demi's Animal Rescue: It Only Gets Better From Here.
Cat Care Society is a private, non-profit corporation founded in 1981 by Linda East, D.V.M. and Lynne Rowe. The original shelter was located in Denver, and relolcated to Lakewood in 1985. The shelter moved in 2001 to the current facility at 5787 West 6th Avenue in Lakewood. CCS serves the Denver metropolitan area.
We provide senior dogs with a compassionate, forever home, at our family-operated, veterinarian supervised sanctuary. We care for our dogs for all the days of their lives, including hospice needs. We are the premier dog retirement community for canines who need us most. We provide group and one-on-one care; space to play, lounge, and sleep; bedroom suites; professionally trained staff and volunteers; and dedicated physical therapy and medical care.
Clawa Animal Rescue is dedicated to rescuing, caring, and finding safe homes for abandoned/abused dogs.
To train rescued shelter dogs to assist people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, with or without multiple disabilities, at no cost to the recipient.
Our mission is to:
-Provide free and low-cost spay and neuter for cats and kittens
-Support Trap, Neuter, Return (TNR) efforts
-Provide rescue for kittens and cats
The mission of NSC is to promote responsible pet ownership through education, animal rescue and rehabilitation. NSC is dedicated to the instruction of both the dog and the new owner to ensure permanent, loving homes for our four legged friends. Our goal is to not only rescue homeless animals, but to assist in the relocation of unwanted pets.
Uniting veterans with shelter pets to create a lifelong bond of mutual hope and healing.