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Counting in Florida

Win for animals in Florida as law is passed requiring shelters to compile statisti...
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Super season

New York Pet Super Adoption, hosted by Best Friends, helps homeless pets find lovi...
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Audubon disappoints: position reversal

Despite his recent op-ed describing how to poison cats, Ted Williams is reinstated...
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Special-needs pets adoption promotion

Special-needs pets adoption promotion highlights animals with medical (e.g., FeLV ...
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Florida Community Cat Act clears first hurdle in style

Florida House Bill 1121, which would be a win for feral cats, clears the first hur...
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More killing is never the answer

Best Friends' and other groups' shared goal of reducing outdoor cat popu...
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Kitten season (aka raining cats and kittens)

Just in time for kitten season, new kitten nursery opens at the Best Friends Pet A...
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Single and Loving It!

Adoption promotion highlights pets who need to be an only animal in their home. Th...
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Radical notion of not killing our friends

Many people don't know that their local animal shelter kills pets as a means ...
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Fuzzy math on cats, birds clouds highly questionable ‘study’

"Study" in journal Nature Communications uses manipulative statistics to...
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Cat who doesn't like other cats adopted

A cat who dislikes other cats so much that he will sometimes redirect his displeas...
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NKLA's no-kill December: A record-breaking, lifesaving effort

This is a great benchmark to take us into year two of NKLA, we now have the stats ...
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Priceless cat adoption promo: 9 Lives for $9

Cat adoption helps over 1,000 cats find homes. Read about Stray Cat Adoptions of T...
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National Animal Shelter Check-In Day and more on Sandy relief work

Join Best Friends for National Animal Shelter Check-In Day and our ongoing work to...
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Best Friends leads effort in L.A. to ban sale of dogs, cats, rabbits

Best Friends leads the effort as L.A. City Council approves ordinance that bans th...
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