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:
GRCGLA Rescue is a 501(c)3 charity dedicated to the rescue and re-homing of Golden Retrievers. We are staffed completely by volunteers and provide a safe haven to Goldens regardless of age or health problems. We provide services in the Southern California area, covering the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura.
A 501(c)(3) non-profit, animal welfare and rescue organization dedicated to caring for abandoned, neglected, abused, injuredferal animals.
Tofu's Dream World is a 501c3 foster-based dog rescue located in Los Angeles, California.
We save dogs from high-kill shelters throughout Southern California and place them in loving, qualified foster homes until a perfect forever home is found. Every dog receives full medical care and is vaccinated, rehabilitated, and spayed or neutered before adoption.
Kitten Rescue is a volunteer-managed no-kill rescue in Los Angeles that saves and adopts out over 1,000 cats and kittens annually through its network of foster homes and its private shelter facility.
Kitty Bungalow, Charm School for Wayward Cats, is dedicated to a humane solution to cat over-population by focusing on feral colony sterilization and maintenance, and socialization and adoption of feral kittens and stray cats in the Los Angeles area. We provide TNR services to community cats by doing local outreach and identifying problem areas as well as connecting low income pet owners with spay neuter resources.
At Hectic Paws Animal Rescue, we are dedicated to rescuing orphaned bottle babies, including squirrels, possums, kittens, and puppies. Our mission is to provide them with the care they need until they can find their forever homes.
Del Gato Rescue's primary purpose is to prevent shelter impounds. We rescue homeless, abandoned, injured, sick, pregnant, and stray community cats and kittens directly from the streets of Los Angeles, rehabilitate them, and ensure they are up to date on all necessary veterinary care. We then place them in comfortable indoor foster homes until we can match them with their purrfect forever home.
betterTogether Forever's mission is to help under-served, under-resourced, at-risk people and the pets they love stay together. People and the pets they love belong together no matter what challenges life has thrown their way. Our organization is dedicated to helping pet parents in Los Angeles communities that are low income, housing vulnerable, under-served and under-resourced access valuable services that help them stay together with the pets they love, and to keep those pets safe, healthy, happy, off the streets, and out of animal shelters.
We are a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit rescue based in Pasadena, CA. All our animals are safe in foster homes while they await their forever homes.
GSL Rescue's mission is to save and protect animals in the Los Angeles area shelters by rescuing them, placing them in foster homes while providing all supplies, food, medical needs, and training to find their best fit for a home.
Star Pack Rescue is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to saving shelter dogs, providing foster care and rehabilitation, and placing them into safe, loving permanent homes. Working directly within overcrowded shelters, we advocate for dogs who are often overlooked or need extra support, ensuring they receive the care, time, and visibility they need to thrive.
We are a 501c3 non-profit animal rescue organization serving sunny Los Angeles California!!We network and rescue cats and kittens from the high kill L.A. City shelters as well as the streets to save them from being killed. We keep tabs on who is in the most danger, get them to the vet, match 'em up with fosters/adopters, and give them a second chance at a happy life. One day we will have the biggest/fanciest/volunteer run no kill shelter in the woooorld!!!But even in our current grassroots manifestation we can proudly say we save over 1,000 lives annually!!!!
Our mission at Yorkie Rescue of America is to rescue Yorkshire Terriers from shelters as well as take in owner surrenders. We provide the necessary medical treatment, rehabilitate and find them loving forever homes where they will have a second chance at life.
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.
Real Good Rescue is a foster-based 501(c)(3) in Los Angeles dedicated to saving high-risk dogs facing euthanasia in overcrowded city and county shelters, as well as those abandoned on the streets. From seniors and medical cases to young dogs struggling with fear and anxiety, we provide safety, healing, and a path to adoption-transforming lives, dog by dog.
The San Gabriel Valley Humane Society shelters stray dogs and cats from specific, contracted cities and provides affordable spay/neuter and vaccine services for all pets from all communties. SGVHS offers many volunteer opportunities and supports students and scout groups with pet care education and pet projects with a focus on ending pet overpopulation and homelessness.
Our program assists the homeless community of dog owners. It is the only program in California, and possibly the United States, specifically founded to assist homeless dog owners spay/neuter, vaccinate, license their dogs, as well as offer a variety of services including crisis care for the life of the dog.
Dog Foster Network started with a simple, personal truth: one person can only do so much. Our founder became a foster - and then a foster fail - and realized that the bottleneck wasn't love. It was access, visibility, and support.
Dogs were sitting in shelters and rescues, waiting for temporary homes that existed but couldn't be reached. Fosters wanted to help but didn't know where to start. We built DFN to close that gap.
Today we're actively growing our network of rescue partners and working to bring more exposure to dogs in need - because every dog deserves a safe place to land while they wait for their forever home.
The Jackson Galaxy Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit, improves the lives of sheltered animals by transforming the places they live and by helping the people who care for them.
Henry's Hope Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization focused on saving injured, ill, and discarded pets (dogs and cats) from high kill shelters in the Los Angeles area. We are 100% volunteer-based and rely solely on donations and fundraising to achieve our goals towards turning our city, county, and state into no kill.
We at The Kris Kelly Foundation embrace Humanity and we give dignity and a voice to the animals that need someone to do it for them.