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Best Friends provides treatment for shelter cats with ringworm (a minor skin condition): medicated shampoo baths and an oral anti-fungal drug.

Rabbit with hind leg paralysis receives antibiotics, pain medication, subcutaneous fluids and physical therapy, and he is now hopping again.

Dog adopted from Best Friends Pet Adoption Center in Atlanta helps students in a taekwondo (Korean martial arts) studio overcome challenges.

Read about four cats with urinary incontinence who require little extra care, are clean, and need to have their bladders expressed a few times daily.

Senior cat with kidney disease, in a foster hospice home, is adopted by her foster mom and moves with her to Nova Scotia.

Yearling quarter horse suffering from lameness had a three-inch nail that had pierced the bottom of his hoof and became lodged. He'd need surgery.

Louisville Metro Police Department and Louisville Metro Animal Services partner for Paws on Patrol program that pairs shelter dogs with police.

Dog, who was stoic and reserved in the shelter, begins to let his personality shine during a sleepover, and is then adopted into a forever home.

Dog is hit by a car, which leaves him with two broken back leg femur bones and other injuries. He receives surgery, physical therapy and hydrotherapy.

Family of four completes summer internships (two animal care internships and two personalized internships) at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary.

Hurricane Katrina survivor dog, who overcame the trauma he experienced and became a role model for shy dogs, is adopted into a forever home.

Two senior special-needs cats (one extremely shy and toothless, the other with kidney disease, a heart murmur and pancreatitis) are adopted.

A new kitten nursery opens at the Best Friends Visitor Center in Kanab. Visitors can watch the lifesaving work happen through a viewing window.

Data analyst Ron Burd researches and compiles statistics on animal shelters' save rates for dogs and cats, helping the country get closer to no-kill.

Pueblo Animal Services, with Best Friends, All Breed Rescue and Training, and Canine Rehabilitation Center and Sanctuary, helps 20 fighting case dogs.