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25 Ways to Help Save Them All

Are you looking for more ways to help save homeless dogs and cats? Check out these options.
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How to Help Animal Shelters in an Emergency or Natural Disaster

If you'd like to help animal shelters navigate an emergency or natural disaster, here are some key tips to maximize what you can provide.
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Starting a Local Action Team Chapter

In chapter 2 of Best Friends Animal Society's Grassroots Advocacy Toolkit, learn how to start a local Action Team.
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Community Organizing to Help Homeless Pets

In chapter 1 of Best Friends Animal Society's Grassroots Advocacy Toolkit, learn how to connect with advocates for homeless pets in your community.
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Grassroots Advocacy Toolkit: Introduction

Best Friends Animal Society's Grassroots Advocacy Toolkit provides a guide to creating compassionate communities for pets and people.
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Community Cat Trap-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return (TNVR) Success Stories

Learn about community cat TNVR's (trap-neuter-vaccinate-return) effectiveness at controlling outdoor cat populations.
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12 Ways to Help Animal Shelters

Want to help animal shelters save more dogs and cats? Here are 12 effective ways to help homeless pets.
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Combating Puppy and Kitten Mills with Legislation

Puppy and kitten mills are cruel to animals. There are breeder licensing, mill inspection, consumer protection, and pet sale ban laws that help.
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Animal Coalition: How to Build a Successful One

Gregory Castle, Best Friends CEO, walks you through a dozen ways to help build a successful animal coalition of pet welfare groups and organizations.
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Gregory Castle, former CEO of Best Friends, and cat. Best Friends is continually working to build and support a successful animal coalition.

Top Reasons to Adopt a Pet Rather Than Buy

What are the benefits of pet adoption? Here are some of the top reasons to adopt a pet instead of buying one.
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Best Friends Pet Adoption Survey Results

Americans love pets, but how do they feel about shelter animals and adopting? View the Best Friends' pet adoption survey results.
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Save Lives with Feral Freedom

This TNR program guide outlines how Jacksonville, Florida, and First Coast No More Homeless Pets are using trap/neuter/return to lower cat shelter deaths.
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Two tabby cats who are part of a TNR program

Pet Breeding: Best Friends' Position

Best Friends Animal Society does not support pet breeding or pet mills. The most responsible choice is to adopt pets from shelters or rescue organizations.
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Best Friends does not support pet breeding. Please adopt a pet like this brindle dog from a rescue group or shelter.

No-Kill: How to Make a No-Kill Community a Reality

Read firsthand accounts of leaders who have helped create no-kill cities or towns. These resources provide how-to’s for creating a no-kill community.
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Helping pitbulls like these two friendly dogs is key to achieving no-kill.

How to Pass a No-Kill Resolution

Here are guidelines for passing a government no-kill resolution that no healthy or treatable dogs or cat will be killed in your community.
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Animal Welfare Coalition-Building Action Kit

Animal welfare coalitions are teams that have a mission focused on helping homeless animals. This comprehensive how-to guide provides instructions.
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