Volunteer Stories Stories

NHL player David Backes of the St. Louis Blues and his wife Kelly visit Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Southern Utah for their anniversary.

Genevieve Hannon completes internship with cats at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, focused on health, care, diseases, and feline behavior and training.

Floyd Lampart is doing the Pedal for Paws bike ride, 12,000 miles around the outer perimeter of the country, to raise money for homeless pets.

Volunteer matching programs, aka Dollars for Doers, are offered by companies to promote volunteerism. Read how a Verizon employee helped the animals.

A January trip to Best Friends benefits some of Oregon’s homeless pets.

Violet Schultz, an eight-year-old girl, and her classmates raise money for homeless pets at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary and also make 30 cats beds.

Bill Philibert, a lifelong volunteer, celebrated his 100th birthday by volunteering at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary.

Fans of ‘DogTown' on National Geographic about the Best Friends dogs, son takes his mom on a birthday volunteer trip to the Sanctuary.

A 64-year-old retired woman completes an internship in animal care at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. She returns home to help animals locally.

Woman volunteers with and plays her harp for the dogs, cats and other animals at the Sanctuary.

Russ Stenfors is a Best Friends volunteer who works mainly with dogs and horses. He's an excellent help to the animals and very dependable.

First Coast No More Homeless Pets employee visits Best Friends in Utah to volunteer, and then delivers an adopted cat to adopter in Florida.

Sharon Discorfano, a recent law school graduate, rewards herself with a visit to Best Friends and commits to being an advocate and voice for animals.

Child, a young girl of 10 years old, volunteers with animals at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. Kids as young as six years old can volunteer with pets.

Volunteers donate their time to help Best Friends Utah animals. They care for, socialize and do anything else that is necessary to help cats and dogs.