Stories

Mother and son visit Best Friends Animal Society Pet Adoption and Spay/Neuter Center in Los Angeles on opening day.

L.A. Love & Leashes "pet store," offering dogs and cats for adoption, opens in Westside Pavilion Mall in Los Angeles, California.

Ag-gag bills challenged as unconstitutional violation of free speech could make it illegal to video animal cruelty in factory farms and puppy mills.

Grand opening of Best Friends Pet Adoption and Spay/Neuter Center in L.A.

West Valley City (WVC for short), a city in northern Utah near Salt Lake City, announces its plan to become no-kill.

Adoptable dogs and cats from Best Friends LA are regularly featured on FOX's "Good Day LA" and "Access Hollywood."

There are two bills currently in the New York State Assembly that call themselves progressive shelter reform bills. One is, but the other, no so much.

Davis County Animal Services is making progress towards becoming no-kill, including participating in adoption events and working with rescue groups.

A $340,000 check from Best Friends to First Coast No More Homeless Pets aims at reducing shelter deaths in Jacksonville by half.

The Humane Society of Somerset County is providing trap neuter return (TNR) for local community cats (ferals and strays).

Akila, a mature and timid female dog, finds a family willing to love her on her own terms.

Sadly, Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show does not support shelter dogs.

Read about opening day at the Best Friends Pet Adoption and Spay/Neuter Center in Los Angeles and the special pet adoptions that took place.

Vicktory dog Georgia, rescued from NFL player Michael Vick's dogfighting ring, is adopted into a home.

A no-kill San Antonio became an official strategic goal of that city in 2006. Read about the city's progress.