How you can help homeless pets
Together we can bring pets home for the holidays — home to a world of care and companionship, love, and joy.
Everyone deserves a home — and that includes pets in shelters. And when they don’t have a home, they’re at risk of being killed. In fact, a dog or cat is killed in America’s shelters every 90 seconds just because they don’t have a safe place to call home. But there are so many ways you can help change that.
Give a lifesaving gift this holiday season
Your gift will go straight to work saving the lives of homeless pets around the country by providing them with the help and healing they need to find loving homes.
Home starts with you
If just 6% more people chose to adopt versus purchase their pets, we would end the killing of dogs and cats in our nation's shelters.
That's why no matter where you live, you can make a lifesaving difference for animals waiting for homes of their own when you adopt, give, and use your voice to protect homeless pets.
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You can make the season even brighter for the animals. Every action you take for homeless pets helps to save their lives and gets the country closer to no-kill; we’ll show you how.
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Connect with us on social media to stay in the loop about the lifesaving progress we’re making together. And we'll send you all the ways you can help save homeless pets when you give us your email address.
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About Best Friends
Here at Best Friends, we believe that every dog and cat deserves the love, safety, and comfort of a home.
Whether their home is a big house with a fenced yard or a cozy apartment — or it’s a community cat’s safe outdoor space — every pet deserves to have a safe place to call home. That’s why we’re working to save the lives of cats and dogs all across the country, giving pets second chances and happy homes.
Just a few short years ago, cats and dogs were killed in staggering numbers in this country simply because shelters didn't have the community support or the resources to save their lives. That number is now less than half a million per year, but there’s still work to do to ensure that every dog and cat in America finds a safe place to call home.
Best Friends also runs the nation’s largest no-kill animal sanctuary and works collaboratively with a network of more than 5,000 animal welfare and shelter partners, plus community members around the country, to save pets’ lives. Together, let’s bring them home and Save Them All.
We'd love to see your pet living their best life! When you share your favorite video or photo of your pet at home, we’ll use it to inspire others to bring their best friend home.