Dog and Cat Transports Stories

Best Friends has teamed up with other animal welfare groups to arrange transportation for pets away from storm-damaged areas to shelters in other states.

When Pinellas County Animal Services in Florida needed help moving animals prior to Hurricane Milton, Best Friends was ready to lend a hand.

Best Friends grants and dozens of organizations coming together give second chances to hundreds of dogs at Dallas Animal Services.

When a wildfire in New Mexico threatened local animal shelters, Best Friends and area animal welfare organizations teamed up to save lives.

Planes, vans, serenading cats, and kitten stowaways highlight a cross-country trip to help a shelter manage a potentially deadly disease outbreak.

They’re all amazing, and they all show up time and again to pitch in and help pets go from shelters to homes.

The SWATT program has been creating rescue-friendly skies through Southwest Airlines, helping thousands of animals go home.

How a puppy named Sonny went from alone on a roadside in Alabama to a shelter and then a foster home where his whole life changed

Sonny joins the starting lineup on Team Ruff in Puppy Bowl XX.

A mystery in the middle of the desert, these dogs and cats needed help — but now they’re on the path to new, loving homes.

Here are just a few of the more than 370 cats and dogs Best Friends has moved out of Florida since Hurricane Ian hit.

Bringing complete strangers together to form one incredible, lifesaving team.

Teams work nonstop to assist dogs and cats in Florida shelters

Volunteer requests assistance following the tragic school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

The team welcomes hundreds of new dogs and cats to their canyon-cradled home-between-homes.