Please Help Support the Best Friends Animal Society
Nearly 30 years ago, when Best Friends helped launch and pioneer the no-kill movement, over 17 million homeless pets were dying in our nation’s shelters. Today, that number is down to around 4 million unnecessary deaths annually ~ that is tremendous progress, but Best Friends is committed to reducing that number to zero. It’s a mission that we call No More Homeless Pets. By partnering with local governments, grassroots organizations and passionate individuals, we are making big strides toward ending the unnecessary killing of shelter pets in the United States.
In Los Angeles, Best Friends is leading No Kill Los Angeles (NKLA), a citywide movement, fueled by a coalition of 50 local organizations including Los Angeles Animal Services ~ all with the goal of making the country’s second largest and most diverse city into a no-kill community. While in Utah, a statewide coalition headed by Best Friends has the entire state on the threshold of no-kill.
In Jacksonville, San Antonio and Albuquerque, they sponsor effective programs with city government and local organizations to reduce the number of animals entering shelters and achieve no-kill.
Through the No More Homeless Pets Network Partner Program, which consists of animal welfare organizations across the country who are teaming up with Best Friends to save lives in their own communities, they extend funding, resources, legislative support and know-how to every corner of the United States.
Meanwhile, their national initiatives focus on the animals most likely to enter America’s
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shelter system ~ cats, pit bull terrier type dogs, and castoffs from puppy mills. More than 70% of cats who enter our nation’s animal shelters are killed, and many of them are outdoor, community cats who are too skittish to find homes. An estimated 25% of all dogs entering shelters are pure breeds from puppy mills, and the vast majority of dogs killed in shelters are pit bull terrier type dogs.
BFAS’s national initiatives fight discrimination against pit bull terriers, battle commercial breeding operations and keep community cats safe and out of shelters with trap/neuter/return.
Together with all of us who care about animals, they can and will achieve our collective mission of No More Homeless Pets nationwide.
Please visit www.bestfriends.org to find out more about Best Friends Animal Society and how you can donate, get involved, or adopt a pet. You can also find out more about the organization’s No Kill Mission, learn some very upsetting statistics and how you can help change them, find out about the different areas The Sanctuary and the many species who find shelter there, and view various articles and videos related to BFAS’s tireless mission to save lives.