Salt Lake City Stories

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Best Friends and Utah Food Bank partner to help keep families together.

Best Friends Animal Society–Utah puts more oomph into resources.

Best Friends named best nonprofit during publication’s anniversary celebration.

One little ‘kitten in the window' at Best Friends new kitten nursery in Salt Lake City, Utah, caught one woman's eye and she decided to adopt him.

NKUT stands for No-Kill Utah, an initiative led by Best Friends Animal Society to end the killing of dogs and cats in the state by 2019.

Utah governor signs HB 97, prohibiting any local government in the state from enacting breed-discriminatory legislation.

Best Friends Animal Society supports House Bill 97 to override existing breed-discriminatory legislation (BDL) in Utah.

Read sweet adoption stories of a cat and a senior beagle dog from Best Friends Pet Adoption Center in Salt Lake City in the Sugar House area.

Held at the Utah State Fairpark in Salt Lake City, Fall Pet Super Adoption, sponsored by Best Friends Animal Society, saves over 400 dogs and cats.

Fostering animals with special needs is rewarding. Read about cat with congestive heart failure, a dog going through physical therapy, and other pets.

Kitten nursery in Salt Lake County, Utah, is part of a partnership between Best Friends Animal Society and Salt Lake County Animal Services.

Foster homes for dogs and cats save pets' lives in a tangible way by freeing up space in shelters. Fostering animals provides other benefits, too.

Best Friends Animal Society helps the towns of Escalante and Boulder in Southern Utah with trap neuter return (TNR)

Kitten from Roosevelt, Utah, at an adoption event had distemper, but rescue groups pull together to save other cats possibly exposed to the disease.