Best Friends Animal Society believes kindness towards animals creates a better world for all of us. To this end, Best Friends works with shelters, rescue groups and our members nationwide on a variety of grassroots programs designed to bring about a time when there are no more homeless pets. 

 

In 2008, Best Friends:

• Accepted 837 special needs animals into the sanctuary and found homes for 712 of them
• Performed 2,375 spay/neuter procedures, 449 dentals, 378 complicated surgeries, and responded to 100 after hour emergencies
• More than 7,000 people volunteered at the sanctuary
• Our No More Homeless Pets hotline specialists answered 17,000 cases involving 45,000 animals.
• Organized several super adoption events nationally, including several in Los Angeles, one of which attracted over 6,000 people.
• Rescued 650 small dogs from Los Angeles shelters and transported them to areas in the country where there is a shortage of small dogs through our “Pup My Ride” program.
• Saved more than 1600 feral cats from euthanasia through a collaborative we call the Feral Freedom Project. Working with the Jacksonville No More Homeless Pets organization and the Jacksonville Animal Control Authority feral cats enter a spay/neuter program that returns the feral cats back to a managed colony
• Best Friends continued to publish Best Friends magazine, the nation’s leading general interest animal magazine. In 2008, circulation reached 300,000.

Best Friends originated in Arizona in the 1970s with a group of animal lovers unwilling to accept the conventional wisdom of the time that humane societies and shelters "had no choice" but to kill their unadoptable animals. They began rescuing animals scheduled for destruction in shelters, rehabilitated them, and found them homes. Those who were still unadoptable became the first residents of the sanctuary operated by Best Friends in southern Utah. Best Friends operates the nation's largest sanctuary for homeless animals; provides adoption, spay/neuter, and educational programs in communities; manages the Best Friends Network, http://network.bestfriends.org, an interactive, online global community; and publishes Best Friends, the nation's largest general-interest animal magazine.

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• Individual donations
• Planned giving
• Corporate/Foundations donations