Best Friends Magazine Stories

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Agents of change

These innovative animal control officers are redefining what it means to save more...
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Eight award-winning shelters that are helping Best Friends reach its goal of a no-kill nation

A handful of animal organizations are recognized with Best Friends Network Partner...
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Free to a good home: How fee-waived adoptions are saving lives

Some animal shelters are reluctant to offer free (fee-waived) pet adoptions, but t...
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One amazing gift: Maddie's Fund donates $1.5 million to help save up to 12,000 dogs and cats

Maddie's Shelter Embed Project in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas to help save...
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‘Is that a shelter dog?’ It’s time to redefine how we answer that question

Is that a shelter dog" is usually asked after an animal does something undesi...
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Hercules the therapy cat goes from zero to hero to help Alzheimer's patients

Registered as a therapy animal by Pet Partners, a cat, who was once homeless in a ...
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Shelter pulls out all the stops to find foster homes for a whopping 5,000 dogs and cats

Pima Animal Care Center in Arizona implemented lifesaving foster program that move...
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Here's how to help cats who call the streets home

Via return-to-field and trap-neuter-return programs, street cats are spayed or neu...
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Meet the underdogs who are heroes for homeless pets

Animal shelter employees are unsung heroes dedicated to the dogs and cats in their...
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Program helps juvenile offenders and shelter dogs get a second chance

Teens in Florida correctional facilities train rescued dogs with behavioral issues...
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Want to help save pets? Try thinking outside the kennel

Saving shelters pets from being killed is as simple as thinking outside the box - ...
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How a handful of animal lovers changed the world for homeless pets

On 35th anniversary of founding of Best Friends, Francis Battista reviews how the ...
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This age-old practice helps save lives (hint: namaste)

Best Friends offers yoga with adoptable cats, dogs, bunnies, pigs and goats at our...
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Superhero volunteers save shelter pets

Superhero volunteers donate their time to help pets and Best Friends Animal Societ...
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Technology to the rescue for pets

Best Friends is using technology to save more pets in five key areas: adoption, fo...
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