Volunteer Stories Stories

Former contractor volunteers to help renovate the area for the new animal transport program at the Best Friends Pet Adoption Center in Atlanta.

Teen Jewish girl asks for donations for the animals at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in lieu of bat mitzvah gifts.

Inspired by a visit to the Sanctuary as a girl, Katie Kramer Kelley graduates Iowa State University's College of Veterinary Medicine and is now a vet.

Volunteering at the Sanctuary has ‘transformational effects' for a criminology professor at the University of North Florida.

A volunteer in the kitten nursery at the Best Friends Pet Adoption Center in NYC, Milica Kostic is committed to helping newborn baby kittens.

City College of San Francisco dance faculty member Chelsea Eng helps start a dance fundraiser for animal rescue and volunteers at the Sanctuary.

Family loses daughter who loved animals. They request family and friends make a donation in honor of her to help the animals and continue her legacy.

Four generations of animal lovers take a family trip to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary to volunteer and celebrate milestones in their lives.

Lizel Allen and Tyler Bernius from Salt Lake City, Utah, who've fostered 100 kittens and two little dogs, get the opportunity to visit the Sanctuary.

Lisa McManus is a dedicated volunteer and pet foster mom for Best Friends Pet Adoption Center in Atlanta. Read an interview about her volunteering.

Volunteer calls her first trip to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary ‘therapy for the soul,' saying the visit filled her with love and peacefulness.

In honor of National Volunteer Week, we offer our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to volunteers for lending their time and talents to save animals.

Best Friends volunteer, who is a national parks guide, takes the most active, agile dogs from the Sanctuary on epic hikes around Southern Utah.

Susan and David Trussell are feral cat colony caregivers in Ogden, Utah, and Best Friends volunteers in Salt Lake City who teach about outdoor cat care.

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