Outreach and Embed Programs Stories

Maddie's Shelter Embed Project in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas to help save up to 12,000 dogs and cats.

Animal shelter employees are unsung heroes dedicated to the dogs and cats in their care, but they often receive little compensation or thanks.

Best Friends is saving 800 puppies in partnership with Palm Valley Animal Center in Edinburg, Texas. Follow the stories of 58 of them.

Rather than typical prison-like structures, animal shelters in the future are expected to be more like community animal resource centers.

Best Friends Animal Society, other animal welfare organizations, and volunteers step up to help pets affected by the California wildfires.

Best Friends Animal Society is committed to helping Hurricane Florence Animals. Marc Peralta explains our plan to do so.

Best Friends assists with animal lifesaving efforts at under-resourced and over-burdened shelter in Edinburg, Texas, in Hidalgo County.

Dog rescue transport moves 61 dogs from the Palm Valley Animal Center in Edinburg, Texas, to Salt Lake City, Utah, where they will be adopted.

Harris County, Texas, where Houston is located, has taken their shelter animal save rate from 52% to nearly 90% in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.

Best Friends has just wrapped up Hurricane Harvey animal rescue, sheltering and reunion operations that took place in an exhibit hall at NRG Arena.

Best Friends is partnering with Jacksonville-based First Coast No More Homeless Pets to help people and pets affected by Hurricane Irma. Please help.

Best Friends, Austin Pets Alive (APA), Houston Pets Alive (HPA) and Houston Pet Set open Pet Reunion Pavilion for Hurricane Harvey pets.

Best Friends Network partners are evacuating cats and dogs out of Florida before Hurricane Irma hits, but transport help is urgently needed.

Nearly 300 Best Friends Network partners from around the nation commit to taking 4,000 rescued pets following Hurricane Harvey – but more are needed to save lives.

The Rescue and Reunite Center is up and running and housing animals who need help in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, with more arriving all the time.