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Our "Best Friend" Honored Volunteer: Erin Magner

"Her incredible handling skills, her positive energy and her teamwork with staff a...
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When this puppy was born deaf, her foster parents taught her sign language

Hearing-impaired puppy is fostered by a woman who teaches her sign language for th...
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Here's how to help cats who call the streets home

Via return-to-field and trap-neuter-return programs, street cats are spayed or neu...
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How Best Friends is empowering shelters to save even more of the animals they love

Best Friends Leadership Training Academy is a five-day hands-on course for animal ...
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Cat lovers descend on Los Angeles CatCon and 176 cats are adopted

Best Friends Animal Society participates in the 2019 CatCon in Pasadena, Californi...
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Chubby cheeks are cute on babies, but they’re also adorable on cats

Why do some male cats have big cheeks? Unneutered tomcats often have puffy jowls. ...
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Elderly adopter shows senior cat how life gets better with age

Eighty-year-old woman adopts 14-year-old cat from Best Friends Lifesaving Center i...
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Our "Best Friend" Honored Volunteer: Marianne Jarc

"It is because of people like Marianne that our dogs receive such great love and c...
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Our "Best Friend" Honored Volunteer: David Glazer

"Whenever we need help, he is always willing to jump in, whether that's doing dog ...
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Clear the kitten nursery? Mission accomplished.

Nearly 150 kittens from Best Friends Lifesaving Center in Los Angeles go into fost...
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Our "Best Friend" Honored Volunteer: Ashley Crow

"We are beyond grateful to know Ashley and to have her as part of our cat team fam...
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Pit bull rescue group can’t help but rescue kittens, too.

Since kittens, like pit bull dogs, are at high risk of being killed in animal shel...
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More than 1,000 pets adopted in a single weekend

Dogs and cats adopted at NKLA and NKUT Super Adoptions (sponsored by Petco Foundat...
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Neglected cat's transformation is completely amazing

Neglected cat, with sarcoptic mange and dental disease, gets medical treatment and...
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This age-old practice helps save lives (hint: namaste)

Best Friends offers yoga with adoptable cats, dogs, bunnies, pigs and goats at our...
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