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Be a hero for homeless pets

Best Friends is teaming up with SUPERMAN to save lives, and you can help by making a lifesaving difference for animals waiting for homes of their own.

Our best friends don’t belong in shelters; they belong at home. But in 2024 alone, 4.8 million homeless dogs and cats entered America’s shelters. And when animals 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. But there are so many ways you can help change that in your community and beyond.

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No-kill is within reach, thanks to you

You can save the lives of dogs and cats in shelters in your community when you adopt, give, 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.
Adopt a Pet
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Give

You can donate to honor someone for their birthday, sponsor an animal, and more. Your gift is going to work right away to help homeless pets needing a second chance at life.
Make a Gift
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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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See how your community is doing

With your help we can save every at-risk pet in a shelter this year and secure a better future for our best friends.
Right now, nearly 2 out of 3 U.S. shelters are already no-kill, and hundreds more are within reach of that goal. Working together, we can save the lives of homeless pets in communities like yours — and nationwide — ensuring that the places we call home are better for everyone, pets included.
Is Your Community No-Kill?

 

Pets like Krypto are at shelters near you — and they're looking for love

At Best Friends, our goal is to get more dogs and cats out of shelters and into homes and make every shelter in America no-kill. Each and every one of these shelters needs caring people like you to adopt, foster, donate, volunteer, and advocate to help save the lives of pets in your community. 

Here’s my email address — please send me a list of shelters where I live and share more about how I can help save the lives of homeless pets:

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Salt Lake City: Let’s save our dogs and cats

You can help dogs and cats in Salt Lake City by volunteering, adopting, or fostering today.
Help Salt Lake City Animals
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Houston: Let’s save our dogs and cats

You can help dogs and cats in Houston by volunteering, adopting, or fostering today.
Help Houston Animals
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Northwest Arkansas: Let’s save our dogs and cats

You can help dogs and cats in Northwest Arkansas by volunteering, adopting, or fostering today.
Help Northwest Arkansas Animals
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Los Angeles: Let’s save our dogs and cats

You can help dogs and cats in Los Angeles by volunteering, adopting, or fostering today.
Help Los Angeles Animals
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New York City: Let’s save our dogs and cats

You can help dogs and cats in New York City by volunteering, adopting, or fostering today.
Help New York City Animals

More ways to bring love home today 

You don't have to be an official superhero to do something lifesaving. Just like Superman, you can use your power for good and inspire kindness, positivity, and a legacy of hope.

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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. Volunteer near you »
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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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Shop to save lives
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. Shop to save lives »

Pets who found their own heroes

In every shelter, there's a loyal companion waiting to be someone's hero. Just like Krypto the Superdog, these sidekicks are now flying through life's adventures with their very own best friends.

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Let's be friends!

Connect with us on social media to stay in the loop about the lifesaving progress we’re making together. And we'll send you all the ways you can help save homeless pets when you give us your email address. 

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About Best Friends Animal Society

Best Friends is working to end the killing of dogs and cats in U.S. shelters in part by getting more pets out of shelters and into loving homes.

We’ve come a long way since the first known city reached no-kill in 1994, and now we’re closer than ever to making the entire country no-kill. Today, roughly 2,500 shelters are no-kill throughout the U.S. — and 700 more are just 100 pets or fewer away from reaching that milestone.

Best Friends is committed to working with passionate people like you to save homeless pets through adoption, volunteering, fostering, and advocacy. In addition to our lifesaving centers around the U.S, we also founded and run the nation's largest no-kill sanctuary for companion animals.

Working together, we can save homeless pets in our communities and secure a better future for our best friends. Together, we will bring the whole country to no-kill. 

About SUPERMAN

SUPERMAN, DC Studios’ first feature film to hit the big screen, is set to soar into theaters worldwide this summer from Warner Bros. Pictures. In his signature style, James Gunn takes on the original superhero in the newly imagined DC universe with a singular blend of epic action, humor and heart, delivering a Superman who’s driven by compassion and an inherent belief in the goodness of humankind.

DC Studios Presents a Troll Court Entertainment/The Safran Company Production, A James Gunn Film, SUPERMAN, which will be in theaters and IMAX® nationwide on July 11, 2025, and internationally beginning 9 July 2025, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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