Community-Supported Sheltering Stories

The collective power of individual action is helping to save more pets’ lives and bring the whole country to no-kill.

With an increase in the number of dogs and cats saved from 38% to 83%, Harrison County Animal Control Services moves closer to no-kill.

Understand why your local animal shelter might ask you to make an appointment — and how it’s different from turning away pets in need.

Best Friends and Nebraska Humane Society are working together on programs and strategies at the shelter that have had a profound impact on lifesaving.

Through her shelter marketing internship with Best Friends, Jazmin is helping homeless pets, raising awareness, and setting herself up for future success.

Rhea County Animal Shelter’s save rate hit the no-kill threshold four months in a row, enabling a Best Friends embed assignment to end three months early.

Angelenos are a largely untapped reservoir of support for shelter pets.

With support from Best Friends, the city of Roswell, New Mexico, is reviewing how it manages animal services by making changes to send more animals home.

Shelby Jackman made it her mission to bring her rural county shelter in Utah to no-kill when she became manager.

The removal of an obsolete crematorium symbolizes Animal Rescue League of Berks County’s renewed focus on saving the lives of more dogs and cats.

With support from Best Friends, a neighborhood program in Georgia is making it possible for more pets to stay with people who love them.

With funds from the Rachael Ray No-Kill Excellence Grant, Fix West Texas offers lifechanging assistance to the community’s pets and their people.

San Angelo Animal Services and Best Friends collaborate on lifesaving programs to reduce the number of pets entering the shelter.

With guidance from Best Friends, a Texas shelter dramatically increased the number of pets saved in six months, despite a midstream distemper outbreak.