Bring love home 

Home is more than four walls and a ceiling. It’s a place where we feel safe and loved — a sanctuary from all storms. Home is often a feeling only you can know.

Everyone deserves a home — and that includes pets in shelters. 

And when they don’t have a home, they’re at risk of being killed. In fact, a dog or cat is killed in America’s shelters every 90 seconds just because they don’t have a safe place to call home. 

If just 6% more people chose to adopt versus purchase their pets, we would end the killing of dogs and cats in our nation's shelters.

When we work together to bring our best friends home, we help loving pets find the families they’ve been dreaming of, and we get the country closer to ending the killing of pets in shelters. So together, let’s bring our best friends home and Save Them All.

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Home starts with you 

No matter where you live, you can make a lifesaving difference for animals waiting for homes of their own when you adopt, donate, and use your voice to protect homeless pets. 

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Adopt

When you adopt a pet from a rescue group or animal shelter instead of buying from a breeder or puppy mill, you’re providing a lifesaving second chance.
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Join

We believe every pet deserves a home, whether it’s a house with a fenced yard, a cozy apartment, or a safe outdoor space for community cats. Do you agree?
I Agree
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Donate

Your gift will go straight to work saving the lives of homeless pets around the country by providing them with the help and healing they need to find loving homes.
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Connect with us on social media to stay in the loop about the lifesaving progress we’re making together.  

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More ways to bring love home today  

Every action you take for homeless pets helps to save their lives and gets the country closer to no-kill; we’ll show you how.

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Keep pets with their families 

Best Friends is working around the country to protect the rights of pets (especially big dogs) and their people, so pets can stay with their loving families — and you can help with your signature. 
Help keep pets with families 
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Foster kittens to save lives 

Opening your home to foster kittens is a great way to help homeless pets. Give us your email, and we’ll send you everything you need to know about fostering kittens.
Get started with fostering 

Everyday, Best Friends supporters make our lifesaving work possible when they volunteer, foster, advocate, learn, and work to end the killing in shelters.

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Volunteer near you

Wherever you live, whatever your experience or interests, there are countless ways to volunteer your time for pets in need.
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Foster a pet

Welcoming a furry houseguest into your home, even for just a few nights, helps those pets while freeing up space in the shelter to save more lives.
The Fun of Fostering
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Advocate for animals

You can help create the kind of community you want to live in by teaming up with fellow community members to support pet programs and policies.
Advocate for Animals
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Learn with Best Friends

If you’re always learning and eager to create positive change in the world, pursuing a professional certificate or degree in animal services could be your perfect fit.
Start Learning Today
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Join the Best Friends team

Whether you’re into accounting or animal care, strategy or social media, technology or training, there’s a career waiting for you at Best Friends.
Start Your Career

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Homeless dogs and cats are finding homes around the country thanks to caring people like you. 

Show us your pet at home 

When you share your favorite video or photo of your best friend at home, they could appear in a commercial airing from coast to coast.

Our pets are always there for us, brightening our bad days and bringing even more joy to our good ones. They make us laugh, smile, and feel loved. And when we bring them home, it’s one of the happiest days of our lives — and theirs.

A home isn’t a home without a best friend. Whether you spend all day snuggling on the couch or playing ball in the yard, we want to see what home looks like to you and your pet. Your video or photo might be featured on a national commercial about pet adoption.

Share Your Pet’s Video or Photo
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Great new gear for you and your pet 

Check out our online store where you’ll find clothes, accessories, pet supplies, gift ideas, and more for you and your best friend. All proceeds go straight back to the animals. 
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Pets who found their way home 

Check out these pets and their stories of hope, love, and resilience.

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117 cats spayed or neutered in surgery marathon

After receiving comprehensive vet care, these cats are ready to live their healthiest lives.
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Faces of No-Kill: Tiny kitten’s journey to health

After undergoing two surgeries and two recoveries, Concord is living the good life at home.
Read about the resilient kitten
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Celebrating animal moms and ‘aunties' at Best Friends

A piggy big sis, doting mares, a stuffed animal owl: These are a few special ‘bonus moms' we’re celebrating at Best Friends.
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These pets are home and loving it

Recent adoption stories showcase Hamburglar the cat’s new friend, a charmed life for a sweet senior dog, and a variety of aww-dorable foster wins.
Read about them
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Calling all heroes for animals

Join this year’s National Action Week for Animals on June 10-15.
Make a difference
Best Friends Magazine
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Sunny pet adoption updates to brighten your day

Read all about 100-pound dog zoomies, playful puppy antics, and a super-charged cat purr.
Read about the new families
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About Best Friends 

Here at Best Friends, we believe that every dog and cat deserves the love, safety, and comfort of a home. 

Whether their home is a big house with a fenced yard or a cozy apartment — or it’s a community cat’s safe outdoor space — every pet deserves to have a safe place to call home. That’s why we’re working to save the lives of cats and dogs all across the country, giving pets second chances and happy homes.  

Just a few short years ago, cats and dogs were killed in staggering numbers in this country simply because shelters didn't have the community support or the resources to save their lives. That number is now less than half a million per year, but there’s still work to do to ensure that every dog and cat in America finds a safe place to call home. 

Best Friends also runs the nation’s largest no-kill animal sanctuary and works collaboratively with a network of more than 4,700 animal welfare and shelter partners, plus community members around the country, to save pets’ lives.

Together, let’s bring them home and Save Them All.

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