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 simple, we want to affect pawsitive change in the lives of stray, feral, and community cats through TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return) and, when sick or ill, to cover the cost of small medical bills. We would also like to raise funds to help transport friendly strays from the streets of Houston to their forever homes whenever possible.
BARC is Houston's municipal animal shelter. Our mission is to promote humane animal care and protect Public Health and Safety in the City of Houston, including shelter, pet placement, ownership, education and enforcement. Critical to our mission is excellence in everything we do.
Friends of CountyPets is dedicated to responsible and ethical pet ownership in our community through education and advocacy. Our passion is empowering and encouraging dog and cat owners in Harris County to humanely care for their pet through education and access to services.
Caring for pets in need through sheltering, adoption, humane education, spay/neuter services, low-cost wellness and community outreach.
To reduce the homeless pet population through rescue, education, and outreach. Our purpose is to rescue and care for stray and homeless dogs and cats. Raise funds to assist with medical expenses. Foster and place animals in loving and suitable adoptive homes. Educate the public about proper care of animals, and the importance of spay and neuter.
Gulf Coast Cocker Spaniel Rescue (GCCSR) was founded in June 2010. We are an all-volunteer organization with no paid staff. All three board members work full time jobs and run the organization after hours and on the weekends. Since GCCSR was established, we have rescued 177 cocker spaniels and cocker mixes.
Angels Four Paws is a non-profit, no-kill, volunteer dog rescue organization serving the Houston TX metropolitan area. They are dedicated to rescuing dogs left homeless for whatever reason ,dogs in public shelters where they are at high risk of euthanasia due to pet overpopulation, dogs given up by their owners because of difficult circumstances, and those in danger of abuse or neglect. They place dogs in loving, responsible, committed permanent homes, following a comprehensive adoption process which includes taking considerable care in finding good matches and educating prospective adopters about the responsibilities and costs of bringing a dog into their home and lives.
Waiting Under The Willow Foundation is a Houston-based canine rescue dedicated to rescuing dogs from the streets and from euthanasia lists in shelters across Texas. We spay and neuter all of our dogs to prevent overpopulation, provide rehabilitation for sick and injured animals, and strive to place every dog in a loving, forever home.
Texas Homeward Bound saves, rehabilitates, and rehomes at-risk animals in Texas. We provide medical care, loving fosters, and promote responsible pet ownership by educating, spaying/neutering programs. Our goal is to find every animal a safe, permanent home.
Donna's Love Pet Rescue is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in Houston, Texas, dedicated to saving, rehabilitating, and rehoming dogs in need. We provide medical care, vaccinations, and loving fosters for abandoned and neglected dogs, giving each one a second chance at a healthy, happy life through rescue and adoption.
SHR's mission is to rescue and locate permanent, loving homes for cats and dogs in the greater Houston metropolitan area that would otherwise face almost certain death at area shelters or on the streets. SHR is a non-discriminating, all-breed rescue that focuses on dogs and cats that otherwise fall through the cracks at shelters and with traditional rescue groups.
The Adoption Center and Animal Shelter, along with Animal Control are divisions of the La Porte Police Department. This division is responsible for animals within the city limits of La Porte and to enforce the city ordinances.
Protect the health and welfare of citizens in our communities. In addition, respond to animal conditions of danger and cruelty. Shelter the surplus of stray animals that could cause human injury, automobile accidents, property damage or spread disease.
Our mission is to end the killing of companion animals in Galveston County by promoting and providing resources, education, and programs that save lives and transform animal welfare in our community.
Mission: a non-profit dog and cat rescue creating pathways to permanent, safe, and loving homes through adoption, transport, and spay and neuter services.
Friendswood Animal Needs & Solutions (FANS) is dedicated to supporting the pets of families in Friendswood, as well as the Friendswood Police Department & Animal Services. We work tirelessly to raise awareness for shelter animals, promote adoption and fostering, and boost community engagement. We strive to create a brighter future for animals in need through our programs and community efforts.
Keep League City No Kill. Decrease intake by funding spay neuter & assistance to keep pets with their people. Increase live outcomes by getting the cats in front of potential adopters at six locations in League City & Clear Lake City, PetSmart, PETCO, and Pet Supplies Plus, Safari Animal Clinic. We fund things outside the city budget & provide services to our residents when the shelter won't.
At Toni TNR Tails, Inc. we aim to reduce the stray cat population in the community through the use of humane trapping, neutering/spaying, vaccinating and returning (TNR) cats to their outdoor home which ends the breeding cycle, improves the cat's health and makes them better neighbors by ending mating behaviors.
Our mission is to rescue and rehabilitate dogs and cats of all breeds and ages and find them loving homes throughout the country. We operate transport to aid our efforts to find the best forever homes for the animals we save.
Our mission is to serve the City of Baytown community members, as well as pets in the community, through humane solutions that promote community health and safety, connection to information and resources that seek to protect the human-animal bond, and provide a safe haven for animals in need of sheltering.
Devoted to Pets Rescue is dedicated to saving the lives of innocent cats and dogs in crisis through sheltering, adoption, advocacy, spay and neuter, and community outreach in Baytown and the surrounding areas.