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.

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West Orange, NJ

Our mission is to Spay/Neuter all feral cats in the Twp. of West Orange, NJ. We officially started after fighting for 1-1/2 yrs to obtain an ordinance. This was obtained on February 9, 2016.

Caldwell, NJ

The mission of Rescue Haven Foundation is to save dogs and give them a chance at a new life. We do this by providing foster homes that will nurture their physical and emotional health, help locate their ideal forever homes while providing support and training to help assure that their stay in their new homes will be a permanent and positive experience.

Hillside, NJ

The mission of People for Animals is to prevent animal suffering through affordable essential healthcare, public policy advocacy, and community programs.

Rye Brook, NY

Devoted to providing every pet the love, security and care they deserve. Seeing them through their rescue journey to happiness. We are the voice for their future.

Brooklyn, NY

Twenty Paws Rescue founders, Linda and Rachel, share one common objective and passion. Every day they battle an ongoing epidemic plaguing our streets, the abundance of forgotten homeless, abused, and surrendered animals. Twenty Paws, a small rescue, is only able to bring their ambitious dreams to fruition with the help of an exceptional and dedicated team of volunteers, fosters, donors, and adopters. Tirelessly, the Twenty Paws team utilizes their boundless devotion to provide all Twenty Paws animals with warm and loving care until they find a forever home.

Arverne, NY

CREATE-CONNECT-ADVOCATE.We are CATHOLIC with both a big and a small C.We strive to CREATE awareness through education about the suffering of animals. We CONNECT with individuals and organizations seeking to integrate their religious/ethical principles with their love for animals through advocacy at the local, state and national level. We ADVOCATE for the rights and welfare of all creatures.We are a non-profit organization dedicated to creating awareness, connecting with other like minded people and organizations, and advocating for the rights and welfare of all God's creatures.

Maplewood, NJ

East Orange Animal Alliance's mission is to provide resources that enable the City of East Orange to most effectively care for its at-risk animals and support the people who are dedicated to them. Our volunteer-run, 501(c)(3) organization carries out this mission by fundraising for needs above and beyond the City of East Orange Animal Shelter's budget, increasing exposure for the shelter's adoptable animals, funding shelter diversion programs to keep pets in homes, and connecting the shelter's animals with adopters and rescue groups.

Wayne, NJ

The Alan Purcell Animal Shelter is dedicated to providing for the humane treatment of dogs and cats in the Township of Wayne and surrounding communities. Each year the shelter cares for the lives of approximately 1,000 animals. Through its aggressive adoption, spay/neuter, community outreach and humane education programs the Shelter is committed to stimulating the public's awareness of the plight of homeless animals.

Lynbrook, NY

We help dogscats that are sick or injured, abandoned or abused. We provide medical care, socialization and love until we can find them forever homes. We work to provide affordable veterinary care, and to create a fund to offset medical costs for pet owners who are unable to afford it. We strive to reduce the unnecessary euthanasia incurred on pets in overcrowded shelters and encourage community participation and education.

Fairfield, NJ

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.

Lincoln Park, NJ

Brick City Rescue Inc (BCR) is dedicated to finding loving, stable homes for all adoptable homeless dogs in NJ with a main focus on Bully Breeds. We encourage compassionate and responsible behavior and supply training, food, shelter and medical care to all of our animals. We service as a community resource, disseminating valuable information to the public by promoting responsible pet ownership and providing education regarding breed discrimination.

Lincoln Park, NJ

We are an animal rescue that is devoted to rescue, rehabilitate, rehome dogs that are located at the NYC Animal Care Centersother nearby shelters. We place them into loving fosteradoptive homes.

Lincoln Park, NJ

Grateful Paws rescues, provides foster care, and finds permanent homes for animals given up or abandoned by their owners, born outside, or in life-threatening danger. We also work on the 'trap, neuter, return' or 'TNR' model for trapping feral cats, neutering/spaying them, and then releasing them back to their colony. TNR is one of the most humane and effective ways of reducing the population of unwanted cats.

Oakland, NJ

Real Dog Rescue is a 501c3, non-profit organization working with a network of foster homes and volunteers to assist in caring for and providing accommodations for our dogs until forever families can be found. We specialize in the rescue, rehabilitation and re-homing of dogs in need of a new outlook on life and a new hope for a happier forever.We have experience with many different types and breeds of dogs of all ages, from pregnant moms and new born pups to our special seniors and hospice cases.

Oakland, NJ

RBARI'S primary mission is to provide sanctuary and permanent loving homes for the many animals (including elderly, handicapped, and formerly abused) that come through our doors. In addition to food, shelter, medical care, and training, all of our animals receive lots of love by staff & volunteers. All animals are provided an open-ended stay in a warm, safe place until loving homes can be found.

Oakland, NJ

We are a small but passionate group of animal advocates with years of experience in rescue, animal care and welfare. Our mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, and find homes for local dogs, cats, and occasionally other animals in need, with a focus on seniors, special needs, the very young, and the unwanted. We will also assist other animals and wildlife in distress. Community programs include stocking an animal food bank, education, reducing feral cat population, and preventing shelter surrenders.

Millburn, NJ

Sedona Shepherd Sanctuary is a non-profit organization formed to help rescue and find homes for German Shepherd dogs in need and to help support other rescue and shelter organizations in finding homes for German Shepherd dogs. Our primary focus is saving adult and senior German Shepherds and mixes.

Briarcliff, NY

The SPCA of Westchester is a no-kill, 501(c)3 not-for-profit animal welfare organization dedicated to saving homeless, abused and abandoned animals and to protecting animals from cruelty and neglect through education and enforcement of humane laws.

Thornwood, NY

Wagging Tails' mission is to rescue homeless dogs with no hope; especially those living in inhumane conditions. Whether it's dogs in cramped, dirty puppy mill cages, barbaric international dog meat farms, hoarding situations or those living in the streets and shelters, we give them a brand new lease on life. We provide all the dogs we save with appropriate veterinary care, loving foster homes and adopt them out to caring and responsible forever homes.

Staten Island, NY

Anarchy Animal Rescue was founded in December 2010 out of need and desire to help address two major animal crises in this country - unwanted adoptable pets and the mistreatment and abuse of animals due to puppy mills. Our goal is to find good loving homes for as many pets as we can take in, care for medically and place in responsible homes.

Oyster Bay, NY

The Patricia H. Ladew Foundation is a non-profit cat sanctuary in NY providing shelter & medical care to homeless cats until they find forever homes.