Houston Stories

Best Friends and partners help both people and their pets during unprecedented frigid temperatures in the Lone Star State.

Meet Link, Best Friends' puppy who went prime time in a cameo appearance during Puppy Bowl XVII in 2021.

After transporting 42 cats from Harris County Pets in Houston, a van from Ohio Alleycat Resources turns around and transports 104 more from Lufkin, Texas.

For Chris Henderson, adopting a little kitten after a trans-Atlantic move during a pandemic made him feel right at home in the USA.

Steak managed to charm everyone in his Los Angeles foster home, including someone 1,500 miles away who decided to adopt him.

Felix had a ticket to ride from Houston to Ruff Start Rescue in Minnesota, but when distemper postponed his plans, a team came together to help him get healthy again.

Despite the coronavirus pandemic, hundreds of dogs and cats from Texas shelters find homes in new states including Minnesota, Colorado and Illinois.

The Friends For Life wellness clinic and food bank helping pets during the COVID-19 pandemic has been so successful that the shelter plans to keep it going.

When friends Marylin Sharp and Bobbie Oldfield aren't driving pets to new homes, you can find them volunteering together at Best Friends in Houston

How Houston-area shelters, Best Friends and a local news station got creative and worked together to help pets get adopted like never before.

Check out these adorable pets who got to move out of shelters and in with foster families as people quarantine at home across the country

It took a while to find a new home for Samwell, a young dog with a lot of energy in a Houston shelter, but his new family loves everything about him

Once homeless in Houston, a high-energy, fun-loving pit bull terrier mix with a tough past finds a home with amazing family of four

Scruffy terrier with broken femur has surgery to place four pins in her leg. She's feeling a lot better and more confident, and ready for adoption.

Moving animals from one shelter to another where they are more likely to get adopted, pet transports get an overnight rest at shelters around country.