Volunteer Stories Stories

Volunteers from Tierra Del Sol, which is dedicated to empowering people with Down syndrome, autism and other disabilities, help at Best Friends in LA.

Here are seven ways to Celebrate the Year of the Dog in the Chinese New Year, which include adopting a pet from your local shelter.

From Villa Park, Illinois, Billie Johnson shares her experience of volunteering at the Sanctuary and working for a no-kill society by 2025.

Married couple volunteers to help the animals at Best Friends in Atlanta. The husband and wife team foster senior dogs and more. Read their interview.

Students, many of whom are veterans, from the Animal Behavior College dog
training program work with dogs from Best Friends in Los Angeles.

Couple takes volunteer trips to help animals at Best Friends. They renew their love for one another while falling in in love with all the animals.

Mother and daughter take third destination vacation to the Sanctuary in Utah to volunteer with pets after Mom beats cancer.

Woman volunteers as a receptionist at the NKLA Pet Adoption Center, greeting visitors, answering phones and talking to visitors about adopting a pet.

Lifelong friends take a long-awaited volunteer vacation to Best Friends to volunteer with pets. Visiting the animals in Utah was all they hoped for.

To honor her senior therapy dog, woman makes 800 cookies and donates money to the animals, and takes a birthday volunteer vacation to Best Friends.

Team Red, White & Blue (RWB), a group of veterans, active military and civilians, participate in a community service project at Best Friends.

One-eyed cat with FIV is older and looks a little rough, but this affectionate, cuddly boy is the best lap cat. Just ask his new adoptive family.

Kathy Moran of Atlanta, Georgia, volunteers with cats and kittens at Best Friends in Atlanta. She also fosters kittens.

Three Best Friends cat care volunteers, who clean cat carriers, feed kittens, help with cat adoptions and more, also make friends while volunteering.

Best Friends has just wrapped up Hurricane Harvey animal rescue, sheltering and reunion operations that took place in an exhibit hall at NRG Arena.