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Best Friends' new shelter outreach program provides training and support to animal shelters around the country so they can save more animals.

Best Friends advises Detroit Animal Care and Control on implementing new lifesaving strategies and developing partnerships with rescues.

Cat from Happy Homes Animal Rescue comes to Best Friends Pet Adoption Center in New York City, where he meets another cat who becomes his best friend.

Cat with terminal cancer, chronic kidney disease and arthritis receives end of life hospice care and is enjoying being lovingly cared for.

Free-roaming cats in Atlanta are adopted out as barn cats to control rodent populations. The felines also thrive in breweries, garages and warehouses.

In honor of National Volunteer Week, we offer our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to volunteers for lending their time and talents to save animals.

Tuxedo cat with serious heart murmur, broken front leg and a shoulder wound caused by a BB gun gets treatment and love at the Sanctuary.

Hand targeting is used to help four young abandoned dogs overcome their shyness and fear, teaching them that outstretched hands are not a threat.

Dwight Schrute the cat is crabby and awkward but also kind like his namesake on the hit TV show "The Office," and that endeared him to his new family.

Two horses, a formerly wild mustang and an introverted horse, receive retraining and are adopted together by the owner of Border Towns Horse Company.

Dog who survived Hurricane Harvey now living high life with his adoptive family at the James NoMad, a pet-friendly boutique hotel, in New York City.

Best Friends volunteer, who is a national parks guide, takes the most active, agile dogs from the Sanctuary on epic hikes around Southern Utah.

Hurricane Harvey rescue story about a dog saved after the storm and adopted by a patient couple who understands the trauma he has been through.

Labeling shelter dogs as a particular breed is problematic. Shelter staff are wrong a majority of the time when identifying a dog's prominent breed.

Partnership between Best Friends in Los Angeles and the Paw Mission saves ‘working cats' who provide mouse control in barns, garages and warehouses.