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 provide our dogs with the best chance to live in a safe environment, and to be treated with respect, compassion, and integrity. We strive to ensure the best match for our dogs and our applicants. We aspire to educate prospective adopters about the responsibilities and costs of bringing a dog into their homes. Through our efforts, we will improve the quality of life for animals and reduce the number of euthanized animals.
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.
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.
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.
The Cassie Lee Cat Rescue is a 501 (C)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to saving cats from high kill shelters, strays, abandoned, abused or injured animals and placing them into loving 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.
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.
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.
We are an non-profit 501(c)(3) volunteer rescue sanctuary organization for exotic and domestic animals specializing in the care, and treatment of animals that would have otherwise been destroyed from shelters, or by uncaring humans. We are a committed to saving the lives of animals from Los Angeles and transporting them to Las Vegas, Nevada for adoption and care.
Helping Persian Cats network of dedicated volunteers rescues primarily Persians, Himalayans Exotic Shorthairs, Scottish Folds and other breed cats, from local animal shelters in the Southern California area, and from private owners in special circumstances, and from breeders who are no longer able to care for their cats.
We focus on providing dignity, love and a second chance to homeless animals by ensuring they receive the medical care, attention and time they need to find their forever 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.
The mission of FAR Side Journey is to create a Foster, AdoptionRescue (FAR) network so that no owner-relinquished or stray animal has to be held in a government shelter awaiting adoption or potential euthanasia due to overcrowded conditions.Our vision is to see the day that municipal animal shelters no longer have to euthanize adoptable companion animals.
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.
The organization was founded as a result for the need to rescue Basset Hounds from Southern California shelters and to help families re-home their Bassets when they are no longer able to care for them.
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Our mission is to rescue and rehabilitate as many abandoned and neglected cats as we can each year. Prior to adoption, we spay/neuter, vaccinate, de-worm, de-flea, micro-chip and FIV/FELV test all cats and kittens. We find loving, safe and permanent homes for all of the cats that we take in to our rescue. We have TNR projects at 2 feral colony locations where we feed, give fresh water to and monitor daily.
Ace of Hearts Dog Rescue is a 501(c)3 foundation dedicated to rescuing dogs the day they are scheduled to be euthanized from various Los Angeles shelters and placing them in qualified, loving homes. We rescue all breeds, and specialize in bully breeds, but don't discriminate against any! We rehabilitate and place dogs in the right homes.
Our mission is to focus on rescuing the most vulnerable cats and dogs out there, those in need of medical, senior, or hospice care, from both shelters and the community.
We rescue Siberian huskies and husky mixes in Southern California. Focused on the greater Los Angeles area, we save dogs off death row at shelters and off the street, and help them to find their forever homes. We set up each dog for adoption success by providing them what they need most, including any medical treatment and/or training that's needed. We are currently completely volunteer-based so 100% of every donation goes directly to the dogs and their expenses.
Our mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, and give animals the greatest chance of finding permanent loving homes, while empowering people with the knowledge to be compassionate and responsible caregivers.