Cat Stories

Two kitties with the feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) are rescued and then find a home together with a loving couple.

Pima Animal Care Center in Arizona implemented lifesaving foster program that moved 5,000 pets into foster homes and engaged 2,000 foster volunteers.

Best Friends hosts adoption event for cats and kittens from Animal Care Centers of NYC (ACC) over Labor Day weekend.

On a road trip, a family finds a six-week-old kitten trapped in their car's wheel well. They bring the little ball of fur to the Sanctuary for help.

Declawed cat had behavioral issues and experienced chronic pain after the painful declawing surgery, but she's feeling much better in her new home.

Cat found in snow with severe frost bite, requiring amputation of part of his tail, recovers and goes on to be fostered and adopted into loving home.

Little kitten had a lot of challenges early in his life, but now this incredible survivor cat is living life to the fullest and believes he's a dog!

Wildlife conservationists, animal welfare experts, and veterinary medicine professionals co-author peer-reviewed study explaining TNR effectiveness.

A member of a colony with strays and ferals, one cat turns out to be very friendly and cuddly. She's since been adopted and has become a therapy cat.

Why do some male cats have big cheeks? Unneutered tomcats often have puffy jowls. Find out why, and see some adorable chub-cheeked cat photos.

Best Friends Leadership Training Academy is a five-day hands-on course for animal shelters to learn strategies to save more animals.

Best Friends Animal Society participates in the 2019 CatCon in Pasadena, California, as the official adoption partner. Nearly 200 cats are adopted.

Eighty-year-old woman adopts 14-year-old cat from Best Friends Lifesaving Center in Los Angeles. Their golden years just got brighter.

Heckin' good pupperinos and pretty kitties werk the runway at Best Friends during epic photo shoot that inspires derps, mlems and borks.

Animal shelter dog and cat transports save lives by moving pets from one shelter to another where they have a better chance of being adopted.