How you can help animals in Salt Lake City

At Best Friends Animal Society in Salt Lake City, our goal is to get more dogs and cats out of shelters and into homes and make every shelter in America no-kill. 

Right now, nearly 2,500 shelters are no-kill throughout the U.S. — and over 600 more are just 100 pets or fewer away from reaching that milestone. This means that no-kill is within reach, thanks to you.

Every action you take for homeless pets helps to save their lives and gets the country even closer to no-kill — whether you adopt, donate, volunteer your time, foster a pet in your home, or advocate for animals.  

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Salt Lake City: No-kill is within reach

You can save the lives of dogs and cats in shelters in Salt Lake City when you adopt, give, volunteer, and use your voice to protect homeless pets.

Smiling person sitting with a dog in a yard in Salt Lake City

Adopt: bring love home

When you adopt a homeless pet, you’re not only adding a loyal and loving companion to your family, but you’re also helping to save lives. 
By adopting a pet from a shelter or rescue group, you’re saving the life of a homeless pet while also making space in a shelter for another pet to be rescued. And that’s huge.
Person holding a kitten at Best Friends in Salt Lake City

Donate: make a gift to save lives

When you make a gift to the animals, you’ll be helping to save the lives of homeless pets in Utah and around the country.
Your contribution supports our lifesaving work and helps shelters across the country to achieve no-kill. Your generosity ensures lifesaving second chances. Your compassion helps to Save Them All.
Smiling person holding a dog at a pet adoption event in Salt Lake City

Volunteer: give your time

You can provide hope and happiness to homeless pets by volunteering.
For animals here in Utah waiting for a family of their very own, your gifts of love, time and companionship make a lifesaving difference.
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Foster: open your heart and home

When you foster a pet, you’re not only providing a safe and loving place for a pet, you’re helping to make room for more animals in the shelter.
Fostering an adoptable animal in your home, even for just a few nights, is a great way to help save a homeless pet’s life.
Two smiling people in a park with a tiny dog

Advocate: create positive change

You have the power to create positive change for the animals in your community. Join the Utah Action Team or start your own today.
Expand pet-inclusive housing, provide resources for local community cats and kittens and their caregivers, make sure people can share their lives with any dog they choose, regardless of breed, and more.

Help your local animal shelter or rescue group 

At Best Friends, our goal is to get more dogs and cats out of shelters and into homes and make every shelter in America no-kill. Each and every one of these shelters needs caring people like you to adopt, foster, donate, volunteer, and advocate to help save the lives of pets in your community. 

Find an animal shelter or rescue group near you today:

Pets who found their way home

Check out these Salt Lake City pets and their stories of hope, love, and resilience.