Network Partners Stories

Best Friends Network Partners across the country share their tales about animals whose lives are now shining bright.

Best Friends is leveraging the power of networking and peer mentoring to engage organizations and help save lives.

Best Friends volunteers go into shelters for a full day of doing whatever the shelter staff need help with the most.

Best Friends embed program assists Fresno Humane Animal Services in setting up a city animal services program.

How Best Friends shelter assessments help organizations move closer to no-kill 

A tornado blew the roof off Pasadena Animal Shelter, but quick action and collaboration assured the safety of every animal.

Best Friends embed program helps Arkansas shelter save more dogs and cats.

Prattville/Autauga Humane Society welcomes Best Friends embed staff to assist them in moving closer to no-kill.

Best Friends provides hands-on training to help veterinary teams catch up on lagging number of surgeries nationwide.

City takes on the goal to save more animals

Shelter embraces a new foster program, adoption events and sending 75 dogs (and counting) to new homes.

Third Best Friends-sponsored National Adoption Weekend results in homes for more than 11,000 dogs and cats.

Here are just a few of the more than 370 cats and dogs Best Friends has moved out of Florida since Hurricane Ian hit.

A county shelter in Conway, South Carolina, was overcrowded, underfunded and suffered from a low save rate until a mentorship with Best Friends inspired lifesaving changes.

Teams work nonstop to assist dogs and cats in Florida shelters