Best Friends came together with animal shelters coast to coast for adoption events that helped more than a thousand dogs and cats find homes.

Dingo, rescued from a fight bust, becomes an expert on happy living.

Palm Valley Animal Center volunteer Chelsea Hughes is so dedicated to volunteering to help save dogs and cats that she’s made it her full-time “job.

Lennox slipped out of his home and spent time in two different shelters before his family found him — on his 15th birthday.

They were found in a dumpster, but the love of a total stranger brought them to safety at Best Friends.

Arizona wasn’t having much luck getting adopted in Atlanta, so she came to New York City where she soon found a home.

Rosalie Wind tells us what it’s like to work with potbellied pigs, and how one of them named Cutie stole her heart.

After round-the-clock love and care at the Sanctuary, puppies leave distemper behind and launch new lives.

Palm Valley Animal Center’s new Tails Around Town program makes it easy for the community to get involved to help save lives.

Dogs are popular office mates at Best Friends not only because it’s fun, but because it helps the dogs.

Dog walking, hiking and sleepovers bring this couple back to Best Friends half a dozen times — and counting.

Photos capture the moment all shelter pets wait for — when they go home with a new family.

Celebrities come together to support animals at Best Friends Benefit to Save Them All in NYC.

With a little help and patience, Ruthie learned that she didn’t need to guard her toys anymore.

Photos from the Best Friends in Los Angeles kitten nursery through the lens of volunteer photographer Todd Roisman

Bella the dog is having the time of her life after a truck driver adopted her from Best Friends in Atlanta.

The Nat Geo Wild network show features the pets who got help at the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary clinic in Kanab, Utah.

These special people prove that — cape or no cape — compassion for pets is a superpower.

After her senior dog passed away, Shauna Stewart adopted a dog named Hazelnut, who was having a hard time finding a home.

Batman the pig arrived at the Sanctuary with overgrown hooves and tusks, but now he’s happy, healthy and completely pampered.

Puppies are so amazing that there’s a day set aside to celebrate them.

See how Best Friends in Atlanta is getting ready for kitten season with a little help from the center’s own Meowie Kondo

Find out what keeps Deyra Galvan coming back to volunteer and organize events for Houston’s shelter pets.

With help from Best Friends staff and a foster volunteer, introverted senior cats Jen and Stark learn how to let go of fear and find a home.

Levi Myers talks about why he loves the challenges, unpredictability and rewards that come with being a cat caregiver at Best Friends.

Denny Erardi, who volunteers at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary every year, explains why every trip out from her San Francisco home is worth it.

How a mama cat and her newborn kitten got a second chance at the Best Friends Lifesaving Center in L.A.

The two states with the biggest challenges present opportunities for major advances on the path to no-kill.

Once homeless in Los Angeles, Kiwi now lives on a farm in Tennessee with a family that includes five children with special needs.

Adoption specialist shares how it feels to help dogs at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary find new homes.

Rad likes to play fetch and steal volunteers’ hearts, but she needed help to get her own heart healthy again.

How Captain Cowpants changed hearts and minds about pit-bull-terrier-like dogs

Best Friends adoption event helps dogs in NYC find homes just in time for Valentine’s Day

From a horse bromance to cuddling dogs in matching “adopt me” vests, these best animal friends know how to do Valentine’s Day right.

The only thing better than one sweet horse adoption is two.

2019 is the year of the pig in the Chinese zodiac, and Best Friends Animal Sanctuary is ringing it in with some fun facts about our piggy pals.

How two friends are helping cats at home and when they visit Best Friends

For five months, Bentley was all alone in a national park, but now, he’s back in his happy home.

These dog, cat, horse and bird photos are just too cute not to share.

Cea Randolph had so much in common with Gypsy, a dog at the Best Friends Lifesaving Center in Atlanta, that she knew she was the one for her.

My story: Volunteering at the Sanctuary gives a busy executive a welcome break from daily pressures.

Sandy Saffold started a running club that benefits the dogs at the Best Friends Lifesaving Center in Atlanta.

A senior dog named Suki was depressed, overweight and in pain until therapy and a foster home helped her feel better and (ultimately) find a home.

Beaux gives his foster parents 10 more good (and fun) reasons to foster a cat or dog from a local shelter.

Carly used to hide all the time, but once she grew to love riding on people’s shoulders, her whole life changed.

Dan has more challenges than most kittens, but he doesn’t know it; he’s too busy living the good life in his new home.

Quiqley, a cat with feline leukemia, traveled from Alaska to a cat café in Seattle, where he found a home.

Take a look at some of the most joyous moments from the recent Best Friends Super Adoption, held at the Meadowlands Expo Center in Secaucus, New Jersey.

Removing an outdated breed policy and transporting Frankie out of Texas not only saved his life, but helped get him the best new home he could hope for.