Volunteer Stories Stories

High school student completes service project volunteering with horses, pigs, goats and dogs at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary.

Jean Schifferns and Steve Nussbaum volunteer at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Utah. Read about their dog walking, hiking and other experiences.

Best Friends Animal Society has about 18,000 volunteers who help in all aspects of our work around the United States to Save Them All.

Volunteer seamstresses from the local sewing club, Kanab Senior Sew & Sews, make bunny blankets for the rabbits at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary.

Superhero volunteers donate their time to help pets and Best Friends Animal Society. Cape or no cape, they prove compassion for pets is a superpower.

Best Friends event volunteer Deyra Galvan helps with dog and cat adoption events in Houston, Texas. Read her interview.

Volunteer Denny Erardi finds her niche volunteering at Dogtown, helping homeless dogs make progress, at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Southern Utah.

Interview with Connie Murphy who volunteers with baby kittens at Best Friends in Los Angeles. She describes what it's like to bottle-feed a newborn.

Dog has X-rays and echocardiogram to determine cause of her loud heart murmur: pulmonic stenosis. Veterinary cardiology specialist performs surgery.

Two friends who volunteer at the Cat Adoption Team in Sherwood, Oregon, take volunteer vacations to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. Read their story.

Leila Botsford of Sandwich, Massachusetts, shares her calming experience of volunteering at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary.

Volunteer starts a running club for shelter dogs at Best Friends in Atlanta. The dogs wear ‘adopt me' vests on runs and release their pent-up energy.

Fearless volunteer transports a rescued young bobcat from Second Chance Wildlife to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary.

Shy cat used to hide all the time, but then she realized she loved riding on people's shoulders. This shoulder cat's whole life has changed.

What are 10 reasons to foster a pet? Read on to find out. Cute photos illustrate each point.