No-Kill 2025 Stories

This Black Friday, pet lovers can get a great deal on a lap dog or smart cat during Best Friends Animal Society’s #Holiday100

Lap Dogs, Not Laptops: Best Friends Animal Society’s #Holiday100 Adds Fun Adoption Twist to Black Friday Weekend

Lap Dogs, Not Laptops: Best Friends Animal Society’s #Holiday100 Adds Fun Adoption...
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Natural disasters and the no-kill movement

Best Friends and our supporters have helped more than 1,600 dogs and cats after Hu...
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To adopt or not? A new Best Friends survey sheds light on pet adoptions

Why do people buy pets instead of adopting? A Best Friends survey sheds light on t...
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New Jersey declares 'thumbs up' for no-kill

Resolution 237, declaring the intent for New Jersey to be no-kill for shelter dogs...
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Another successful super adoption as L.A. gets closer to NKLA

Super pet adoption events and animal adoption in general bring LA closer and close...
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The right stuff

Brent Toellner, Scott Giacoppo, Tawny Hammond and José Ocaño join Best Friends Ani...
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The Muppets take Manhattan

Best Friends New York Adoption Center opening today in SoHo as our next step towar...
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Taking an entire state to no-kill

With an 84.2 percent save rate in Utah for 2015, the 56 partners in the NKUT coali...
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Once more with feeling: Save Them All!

Animal advocates must work together, learn from others' success and be open t...
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Enshrining the rights of pets

The town of Trigueros del Valle in Spain passes a bill of rights for pets called t...
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Happy National Feral Cat Day!

National Feral Cat Day is October 16, 2015. This is a special day to recognize TNR...
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Austin names new animal services chief

New Austin animal services chief Tawny Hammond brings experience and leadership fr...
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A nod to the innovator of our era, the father of the no-kill movement retires

Rich Avanzino‘s innovative thinking and business sense, from the San Francisco SPC...
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Confused about what no-kill means and doesn’t mean?

Confused about what no-kill is? There are many inaccuracies surrounding no-kill po...
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The most effective program of all

Spreading the word about Best Friends and the no-kill movement to those outside of...
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