Bob Odenkirk Helps Best Friends Animal Society with Emergency Rescue Flight of 80+ Pets as California Wildfire Relief Efforts Continue

After a successful flight of 84 pets on January 11, yesterday, close to 90 cats and dogs boarded a getaway flight to provide additional emergency relief to Los Angeles animal shelters. 

This lifesaving airlift helps reduce overcrowded conditions in shelters impacted by the wildfires and frees up space and resources. This is one of many ways Best Friends Animal Society, a leading national animal welfare organization working to end the killing of cats and dogs in America’s shelters in 2025, is providing aid amidst the wildfires.  

Best Friends is working closely with shelters impacted by the LA fires to determine which pets can be moved out of the immediate area to make space for displaced pets. By bringing pets that are available for adoption and looking for permanent homes into our care, LA shelters are able to focus on finding temporary homes for lost and displaced pets until they can be reunited with their families.  

To help save lives and spread the word, longtime Best Friends supporter, actor Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul, Fargo, Breaking Bad, Nobody) was on-the-ground helping move LA shelter pets to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. 

Over the past seven days, Best Friends has moved more than 260 pets out of LA shelters. Many of these pets have gone to loving foster homes to decompress or gone on a lifesaving transport like yesterdays with Wings of Rescue.  

To learn more about Best Friends efforts to help those affected by the wildfires, click here. To make a donation that will directly go toward the organization’s relief efforts, visit bestfriends.org/LAFires.