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5 everyday heroes helping animals

Read about five extraordinary people and the ways they are saving the animals arou...
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Where animal welfare and social services meet

Shelters concentrate on programs to keep pets and their people together....
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Large-scale lifesaving

Big cities across America are approaching or surpassing the no-kill benchmark, get...
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Never giving up on a senior pit bull with a challenging past

How education, training, and patience helped a senior pit bull finally land just t...
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A boy, a broken heart and a very good kitten

Family finds healing by fostering three kittens and gets a little help from a 13-y...
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8 adorable adoptions for National Puppy Day

Celebrating National Puppy Day with updates from puppies' awesome new homes...
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New life for a skinny, sick 17-year-old cat

A 17-year-old cat struggled with health challenges, but after time in a foster hom...
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New animal control department serves pets and people in Kansas City

Kansas City Pet Project rises to the challenge of building new animal control serv...
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What no-kill really means

A 90% save rate for animals entering a shelter is the benchmark, but there's ...
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Awkward moments with pets

Smile-worthy moments with pets on National Awkward Moments Day...
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Dog becomes a foster win in the sweetest way

A timid dog gains confidence in a foster home and helps give his adopter a birthda...
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Best Friends programming drives lifesaving success

By targeting the shelters most in need, great strides toward no-kill have been mad...
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4 fabulous stories from Best Friends Network partners

From a happy reunion to a 600-pet transport, here are four excellent stories from ...
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What I eat in a day as a kitten

Follow Catlin the kitten along for her full day of delicious meals and nutritious ...
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Playful cat with special needs falls in love with his foster sibling

Mookie came to Best Friends with a chronic liver condition, but getting adopted al...
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