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The Love and Joy of Pets
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5 steps to using your power for pets
Expert advice from one animal lover with decades of experience in changing laws to...
Start a campaign in your community
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Lifesaving tales: Pets land new homes in unusual ways
Best Friends supporters share their stories of how their dog and cat family member...
People take matters into their own hands
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Lifesaving tales: Heartwarming dog adoptions
Best Friends supporters reminisce about the special day when they brought home the...
Stories of the day when they adopted their dogs
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Lifesaving tales: The joy of fostering pets
Best Friends supporters share their stories about fostering pets — and often reali...
Learn more about the fun of fostering
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Lifesaving tales: Homeless cats get fresh starts
Best Friends supporters share their stories about the magical day when they brough...
Stories of the day when they adopted their pets
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Lifesaving tales: Pets who make life better
Best Friends supporters share how their pets have made a significant impact on the...
Stories of how their rescued pets have changed their lives
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Why people love dogs — and they love us right back
Canine cognition expert Brian Hare, who’s featured in Netflix’s Inside the Mind of...
How dogs became ‘human’s best friend’
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Reflections on our relationship to pets
Ultimately, animals are essential to our wholeness as human beings, so we must sav...
The core of our mission to end the killing in shelters
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9 ways pets tell you they love you
Our beloved dogs and cats don’t need words when they have so many other ways to te...
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Making a better world through kindness to animals
Best Friends co-founder Francis Battista shares his thoughts on how to make the wo...
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Ten things you can do to show your pets you love them
Here are the top 10 best ways to show your dog or cat you love them. For example, ...
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