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Dog and cat foster home volunteers help save pets at the Harris County Animal Shelter in Houston, Texas.

Read 19 fun facts about potbellied pigs (for example, they are very affectionate) to celebrate the Year of the Pig.

Kitten tests positive for panleukopenia (feline distemper), but survives. He now has cerebellar hypoplasia (CH) as a result but is living happily.

Two friends who volunteer at the Cat Adoption Team in Sherwood, Oregon, take volunteer vacations to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. Read their story.

Anxious, frightened dog exhibiting reactive behavior (e.g., barrier and leash reactivity and lunging at strangers and cars) finds a loving home.

Dogtown team leader at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary Tierney Sain shares what her dream job with dogs is all about and some of her favorite stories.

Angry senior cat, who would spit, hiss and growl at people, is helped with reward-based clicker training and then goes on to be adopted.

Happy ending for a microchipped cat who was lost in Zion National Park. Read her story.

See photos of 11 animals - a puppy and kitten, dogs and cats, birds, a lamb and a horse - that will make you happy.

Woman meets her soulmate dog at the Best Friends Lifesaving Center in Atlanta. Read about how life is looking up for these two kindred spirits.

Read heartwarming stories from volunteers at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary who took an adoptable dog or cat on a sleepover.

Leila Botsford of Sandwich, Massachusetts, shares her calming experience of volunteering at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary.

An independent cat named Fiona has an autonomous nature and is self-sufficient and would be perfectly happy being adopted into a home as an only cat. 

Volunteer starts a running club for shelter dogs at Best Friends in Atlanta. The dogs wear ‘adopt me' vests on runs and release their pent-up energy.

Cat with a urinary blockage due to large crystals has emergency surgery to prevent his bladder from rupturing. He is now living the good life.