Emergency Response 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.

A summary of our crisis response over the past three weeks

Best Friends team members headed to Florida to provide relief to animal shelter staff, along with displaced people and their pets, after the hurricanes.

With many local vet clinics closed, Best Friends teams up with animal welfare groups and vets to bring care to North Carolina pets after Hurricane Helene.

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

Respite for animal shelter staff who have been working nonstop to care for pets impacted by hurricanes

Best Friends is in the Southeast to help animal shelters cope with unprecedented challenges brought on by one of the worst storms on record.

Trained volunteers are dispatched across the country and roll up their sleeves to help with everything from natural disasters to staffing shortages.

After a zoo in Puerto Rico closed, hundreds of animals needed new places to live — and help getting there.

A tornado blew the roof off Pasadena Animal Shelter, but quick action and collaboration assured the safety of every animal.

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

Baxter the cat and Larry, a big black dog, recently passed away, but not before filling their homes with joy and love.

Hundreds of pets find safety after the storm, and more help is on the way