No-Kill 2025 Stories

Ultimately, animals are essential to our wholeness as human beings, so we must save those in shelters. 

Tax dollars should not fund the killing of dogs and cats in shelters.

How could a no-kill organization not weigh in?

Pop-up event in New York City spreads the message to help get pets out of shelters and into homes.

Best Friends takes over Times Square to bring love home.

Best Friends is implementing proven strategies at the Rankin County Animal Shelter so that more dogs and cats get the second chances they deserve.

When the word went out that Koda needed a foster home following surgery, Kylie volunteered and, as it turns out, brought the boy home for good.

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.

Angelenos are a largely untapped reservoir of support for shelter pets.

29 dogs put cruelty in the past and begin new lives after being saved in South Carolina.

Shelby Jackman made it her mission to bring her rural county shelter in Utah to no-kill when she became manager.

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

A commitment on a government level to reach no-kill by year’s end