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:
Goodest Dogs is a 501(c)(3) foster-based rescue dedicated to Great Danes with complex medical needs. With no brick-and-mortar facility, 100% of our resources go directly to the dogs, funding surgeries, specialty vet care, and rehabilitation through a network of dedicated foster homes. We believe every Great Dane deserves a second chance, no matter the diagnosis.
North Long Beach Cat Rescue is a grassroots, neighborhood animal welfare group focused on responsible cat colony management, including trap-neuter/spay-return practices, procurement of medical care for community cats in need, animal welfare advocacy for free-roaming, unowned cats, and fostering and adoption of found kittens and socialized cats.
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.
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.
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!!!!
Pug Nation Rescue of Los Angeles is a non-profit organization dedicated to the rescue, care, and placement of abandoned, neglected, unwanted, displaced, and abused pugs. Pug Nation gives these pugs a second chance in a loving and caring forever home. Additionally, we provide information and resources to inform the public about the specific needs of the pug breed. Pug Nation helps vulnerable, needy pugs one pug at a time.
Basic Needs Foundation provides food for working homeless people who live in their vehicles and pet food for their pets. We also provide pet food for low income people, and cat food for feral cats. We find homes for homeless pets, when their homeless owners can no longer take care of them. In addition, we hire mobile clinics and provide no-cost spay/neuter to low income pet owners in small towns, and TNR feral cats.
FixNation is a non-profit organization operating the only free, full-time spay/neuter clinic in Los Angeles for homeless, stray and feral cats. We provide training and resources for Trap-Neuter-Return programs, and provide reduced rate spay/neuter services for tame companion cats. We seek to change public policy so that TNR becomes the sanctioned and government-funded approach to homeless cat management.
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.
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.
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 are committed to preventing cruelty and promoting kindness to animals. Through our activities, we aim to reduce animal suffering and increase animal well-being, and to rehome them in responsible and caring homes where they can thrive and live happy lives.
Our mission is helping homeless dogs, one dog at a time, one home at a time. With the goal of teaching future generations kindness, compassion, and caring for all living things.
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.
Michelson Found Animals Foundation is a privately funded operating foundation in Los Angeles that focuses on a few powerful levers for changing the outcome for some of the 3-4 million animals euthanized each year in the United States. Working with local communities and animal care professionals, we deliver innovative community-based adoption, spay/neuter, and pet ID programs while offering a wealth of trusted educational resources.
I Stand With My Pack is a non-profit organization providing global assistance to save the lives of animals and prevent suffering and cruelty. ISWMP's domestic efforts focus on the successful removal of dogs from LA city and county high risk kill shelters, assisting them through the rehabilitative process and successfully placing them in their forever homes. ISWMP has also created an international platform increasing awareness through education, hands-on field work, disaster relief, fundraising, non-violent protest, and legal action. Additionally, ISWMP extends support and collaborates with like minded individuals, organizations and governments to build the momentum required for sustained changes in animal welfare. These domestic and international efforts support our ultimate mission to create global, long-term solutions for a more humane world.
Big Love's team is made up of seasoned rescuers who have spent many years rescuing frightened and abandoned animals of all ages and sizes from sidewalks and dumpsters to alleyways and gutters. Our vision is a world where people have compassion, respect and big love for animals. We won't give up on an animal because we know that they would never give up on us. With your help, we can save so many more lives. Together we can make a huge difference.
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.