Emergency Response Stories

Saving the lives of pets means working together to share knowledge and solutions, and that's what we're doing all across the country.

Q and A with Keith Slim-Tolagai, Best Friends Navajo Nation program specialist

Best Friends and partners help both people and their pets during unprecedented frigid temperatures in the Lone Star State.

Fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina, one of the last surviving cats at the Sanctuary has just been adopted.

Best Friends Animal Society and other shelters and rescues work together to help at-risk pets in the path of Hurricane Dorian evacuate.

To help dogs and cats affected by the Arkansas flooding, Gleaning for the World, a humanitarian organization, steps up with big pet supplies donation.

Heartbroken shelter puppy at the Palm Valley Animal Center in Edinburg, Texas, is transported to the Portsmouth Humane Society in Virginia to be adopted.

Best Friends is saving 800 puppies in partnership with Palm Valley Animal Center in Edinburg, Texas. Follow the stories of 58 of them.

Rescued after Hurricane Irma, senior dog with laryngeal paralysis, which makes her cough when she gets excited, is adopted.

Dog rescue transport moves 61 dogs from the Palm Valley Animal Center in Edinburg, Texas, to Salt Lake City, Utah, where they will be adopted.

Utah rescue groups come together to save over 100 dogs from a hoarding situation who were threatened by the Dollar Ridge Fire in Duchesne County.

A mama dog and her puppies are saved from the rising Hurricane Harvey floodwaters. Now all have been adopted into forever homes in Los Angeles.

Displaced by Hurricane Harvey, blind, deaf cat, with a neurological condition (cerebellar hypoplasia) finds a forever home in Denver, Colorado.

Nearly 3,000 Hurricane Harvey pets were rescued by Best Friends and our partners with the help of 120+ animal welfare groups and 2,800+ volunteers.

Hurricane Harvey dog comes to Best Friends' emergency shelter in Houston with a dislocated hip and heartworm, but he's got a bright future now.