Stories

Lisa McManus is a dedicated volunteer and pet foster mom for Best Friends Pet Adoption Center in Atlanta. Read an interview about her volunteering.

Rachel Long, director of the Jasper County Animal Rescue League and Humane Society, helps Newton, Iowa, achieve no-kill for the shelter animals.

Adventure Buddies program at Best Friends Pet Adoption and Spay/Neuter Center in Los Angeles allows volunteers to take an adoptable dog for a hike.

Volunteer calls her first trip to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary ‘therapy for the soul,' saying the visit filled her with love and peacefulness.

Friend of a woman who is 94 years old and in an assisted living facility adopts a senior 20-year-old cat for her to provide her with companionship.

See funny animal outtake photos of adoptable dogs, cats and other animals taken as the photographer was trying to capture each animal's personality.

Best Friends' new shelter outreach program provides training and support to animal shelters around the country so they can save more animals.

Cat with terminal cancer, chronic kidney disease and arthritis receives end of life hospice care and is enjoying being lovingly cared for.

Best Friends advises Detroit Animal Care and Control on implementing new lifesaving strategies and developing partnerships with rescues.

Cat from Happy Homes Animal Rescue comes to Best Friends Pet Adoption Center in New York City, where he meets another cat who becomes his best friend.

Free-roaming cats in Atlanta are adopted out as barn cats to control rodent populations. The felines also thrive in breweries, garages and warehouses.

In honor of National Volunteer Week, we offer our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to volunteers for lending their time and talents to save animals.

Hand targeting is used to help four young abandoned dogs overcome their shyness and fear, teaching them that outstretched hands are not a threat.

Tuxedo cat with serious heart murmur, broken front leg and a shoulder wound caused by a BB gun gets treatment and love at the Sanctuary.

Dwight Schrute the cat is crabby and awkward but also kind like his namesake on the hit TV show "The Office," and that endeared him to his new family.