No-Kill 2025 Stories

Best Friends is centralizing operations in the city.

Get an inside look and hear what’s on the horizon at the Sanctuary.

The number of cats and dogs killed in U.S. shelters increased in 2021.

Your job should make it easier for you to take care of your family, not harder.

Shelter collaborative program may be the last piece of the no-kill puzzle.

Best Friends is now offering an Executive Leadership Certification (ELC) program in animal welfare backed by Southern Utah University (SUU).

Texas, California, Florida, North Carolina and Georgia are the states with the most dogs and cats in shelters being killed. Here's how we're helping.

Best Friends Animal Society puts a lifesaving spin on Pay It Forward weekend April 26-28

Colorado Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) releases statement opposing no-kill movement, while advocating for socially conscious animal communities.

In a New York Times misguided opinion piece, Carol Mithers says low- and no-cost adoptions invite abusers and those too poor to care for pets to adopt.

Best Friends, ASPCA, Humane Society of U.S., PetSmart Charities and other organizations issue a press release about animal sheltering transparency.

The 2018 Best Friends National Conference that took place in Los Angeles last week (July 19-21) was one of our best yet and, in many ways, marked a quantum leap for Best Friends and for the no-kill movement. The conference has been and remains a transformative experience, both in its rejuvenating energy and critical distribution of information and expertise. However, the 2018 conference marked something new: For the first time, there was a clear sense of purpose and coordination with regard t

Best Friends assists with animal lifesaving efforts at under-resourced and over-burdened shelter in Edinburg, Texas, in Hidalgo County.

No-kill cities, towns and communities work collaboratively and noncontentiously with the local animal control agency and animal control officers.

"Susan is always calm, cool, collected, and down to help in any area."