Maddie’s Fund Stories

Year-long embed program with Best Friends is over, and today the city shelter in Brownsville is saving so many more pets than ever before.

Best Friends is working with shelters on new ways to monitor the animals in their care and get pets out of shelters and into homes faster.

Best Friends and Nebraska Humane Society are working together on programs and strategies at the shelter that have had a profound impact on lifesaving.

Through her shelter marketing internship with Best Friends, Jazmin is helping homeless pets, raising awareness, and setting herself up for future success.

Rhea County Animal Shelter’s save rate hit the no-kill threshold four months in a row, enabling a Best Friends embed assignment to end three months early.

With support from Best Friends, the city of Roswell, New Mexico, is reviewing how it manages animal services by making changes to send more animals home.

Best Friends’ national shelter medicine team guides animal welfare organizations through infectious disease outbreaks to save more lives.

A dedicated group of veterinarians and vet techs, organized by Best Friends, banded together over 10 days to spay or neuter more than 350 dogs and cats.

Best Friends’ embed program supports a Texas shelter in treating dogs for heartworms.

With guidance from Best Friends, a Texas shelter dramatically increased the number of pets saved in six months, despite a midstream distemper outbreak.

Rhea County Animal Shelter is making strides toward no-kill as part of Best Friends’ national shelter embed program.

Kiba was standoffish around people, but around other dogs she proved she’s a social butterfly ready to put her best side on display.

Michelle Logan answers questions about a one-of-a-kind program that places Best Friends staff in animal shelters to support them reaching no-kill.

Best Friends embed program assists Fresno Humane Animal Services in setting up a city animal services program.

Best Friends embed program helps Arkansas shelter save more dogs and cats.