Network Partners Stories

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Overwhelming response to pet foster requests

Hundreds of pets go from Best Friends lifesaving centers around the country into f...
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How one animal shelter director made big changes to save pets’ lives

Director at Joint Animal Services in WA found inspiration, guidance and support wi...
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Eight award-winning shelters that are helping Best Friends reach its goal of a no-kill nation

A handful of animal organizations are recognized with Best Friends Network Partner...
Best Friends Magazine
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Best Friends internship program inspires scholarship recipient to help cats and kittens at Hopalong Animal Rescue

Best Friends intern takes her learnings back to Hopalong Rescue in Oakland, Califo...
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Jackpot! More than 14,000 stray cats get fixed in Vegas, feline save rates skyrocket

Partnership between Best Friends and The Animal Foundation results in thousands of...
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Pilot uses ‘compassion flights’ to save the lives of homeless cats and kittens

Pilot Larry Erdman with Pilots N Paws flies cats and kittens from Best Friends Ani...
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Shelters across the country step up to help pet transports, provide critical overnight stays

Moving animals from one shelter to another where they are more likely to get adopt...
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Free to a good home: How fee-waived adoptions are saving lives

Some animal shelters are reluctant to offer free (fee-waived) pet adoptions, but t...
Best Friends Magazine
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Forsyth Humane Society receives $16,000 to help turn the tide for North Carolina’s homeless pets

Forsyth Humane Society receives grant from Best Friends to help buy a new transpor...
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Giant polar bear of a dog inspires so many people to help him find a home

Pit bull and mastiff mix dog, who looks like a polar bear, is helped by so many pe...
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Even though the sign read "Everybody looks, but nobody stops," a 70-pound heartworm-positive Lab mix finally goes home

Even though it didn't seem like a great fit initially, yellow Lab mix, who is...
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Adorable couple in their 80s spend all their free time saving animals, and the photos say it all

Senior volunteer couple in their 80s help pets in need at Best Friends Animal Sanc...
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‘Is that a shelter dog?’ It’s time to redefine how we answer that question

Is that a shelter dog" is usually asked after an animal does something undesi...
Best Friends Magazine
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Empowering a Georgia shelter to help keep pets where they belong — with their families

Best Friends awards $50,000 grant to Gwinnett County Animal Welfare and Enforcemen...
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How this struggling animal shelter in the Deep South turned into one of the best

Southern Pines Animal Shelter (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) has a pet transport progr...
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