Best Friends Magazine Stories

Maddie's Shelter Embed Project in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas to help save up to 12,000 dogs and cats.

Is that a shelter dog" is usually asked after an animal does something undesirable. Here's why misperceptions about shelter dogs should change.

Registered as a therapy animal by Pet Partners, a cat, who was once homeless in a shelter, now helps Alzheimer's patients and other people in need.

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

Via return-to-field and trap-neuter-return programs, street cats are spayed or neutered and vaccinated so they can live their best lives.

Animal shelter employees are unsung heroes dedicated to the dogs and cats in their care, but they often receive little compensation or thanks.

Teens in Florida correctional facilities train rescued dogs with behavioral issues, a program that started in prisons for adults and has expanded.

Saving shelters pets from being killed is as simple as thinking outside the box - er, kennel. This article spotlights the change-setters.

On 35th anniversary of founding of Best Friends, Francis Battista reviews how the simple idea that homeless pets shouldn't be killed gained momentum.

Best Friends offers yoga with adoptable cats, dogs, bunnies, pigs and goats at our Sanctuary in Utah, lifesaving centers around U.S., and at events.

Superhero volunteers donate their time to help pets and Best Friends Animal Society. Cape or no cape, they prove compassion for pets is a superpower.

Best Friends is using technology to save more pets in five key areas: adoption, fostering, transporting, rehoming, and keeping pets in their homes.

Saving a pet who needs you the most -- perhaps a dog or cat with special needs, a terminal illness or who's a senior -- is very rewarding.

Rachael Ray Save Them All pet grants make a difference for homeless dogs and cats by funding adoption, TNR, transport and other programs.

Fostering a dog or cat saves a shelter pet's life, but that's not all. Learn about all the benefits to the animals and to the volunteer foster person.