Meet the Staff
Go behind the scenes at
Best Friends and meet
the folks who manage
our various animal care
areas, Best Friends
magazine, member services
and more.

Financial Reports
For a look at Best Friends
by the numbers, click to
view our latest financial reports.
2005 Annual Report and
2007 I.R.S. Form 990.

FAQs
Here you'll find answers to
commonly asked questions about
Best Friends and the work
we do.

At the Sanctuary
From Dogtown to Horse
Haven to Kittyville, see
where the animals live at
Best Friends, plus watch
sanctuary videos and more.

News of Best Friends
What's happening at the
sanctuary? Find out here,
and follow the progress
of our animal outreach programs
coast to coast, too.

The Best Friends Network
This social networking
site connects you to
fellow pet-lovers, and
keeps you in touch with
how people are helping
homeless animals in your
own community and around
the world.

Visiting Best Friends
Meet the animals of
Best Friends while you
vacation in Utah's Golden
Circle of National Parks.
Volunteer, too!
Find out how.

Employment Opportunities
Looking for a career
that's fulfilling and fun?
Check out our latest
job openings.

Donate to Best Friends
Be our newest Guardian
Angel or sponsor a
favorite pet, here you'll
discover many ways to help
the animals of Best Friends.

About Best Friends Animal Society

A better world through kindness to animals

For more than two decades, Best Friends Animal Society has been dedicated to the simple philosophy that kindness to animals builds a better world for all of us.

The sanctuary at Angel Canyon, at the heart of the Golden Circle of national parks in southern Utah, is home on any given day to about 2,000 dogs, cats, and other animals, who come from shelters and rescue groups around the country for the special care they can only receive at Best Friends. The sanctuary is also a destination for 30,000 visitors and volunteers each year.

History: In the late 1980s, when Best Friends was in its early days, roughly 17 million dogs and cats were being killed in shelters every year, and the conventional belief was that little could be done to lower that number.

In the early 1990s, Best Friends' No More Homeless Pets campaign began as a grassroots effort to place dogs and cats who were considered "unadoptable" into good homes, and to reduce the number of unwanted pets through spay/neuter programs. Since then, the number of dogs and cats being destroyed in shelters has fallen to less than five million a year. There has been much progress, but there is still much more to do.

At the sanctuary: Most of the animals who find a safe home at Best Friends have special physical or behavioral needs, and our expert staff of veterinarians, trainers and caregivers offer them all the help they require. Most of them are ready to go to good new homes after just a few weeks of special care. Others, who are older or sicker, or who have suffered extra trauma, find a home and haven at the sanctuary, and are given loving care for the rest of their lives.

Around the country: Best Friends works with our members --  and with humane groups, individuals and entire communities -- to set up spay/neuter, shelter, foster and adoption programs in neighborhoods, cities, and states around the country.

Through the online Best Friends Network, the society reaches across the nation and around the world, helping local communities to rescue animals in distress and to create their own No More Homeless Pets programs.

Animal rescue and disaster response: At home and abroad, Best Friends has led some of the largest animal rescue efforts in recent history. These rescues include natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina, wartime situations, and animal hoarding or failed shelter situations where hundreds of dogs and cats need urgent and continuing care for many months before they can be placed in good new homes. With its sanctuary and rescue experience, Best Friends is the only organization in the country capable of mounting such major rescue efforts.

Public education: Best Friends offers workshops, internships, training programs and conferences to help people set up and manage their own shelter, rescue, adoption and spay/neuter programs. Best Friends magazine also has the largest readership of any general-interest animal publication in the U.S.

Support: The work of Best Friends is supported entirely by the donations of our members. Through the generous hearts and hands of people like you, we can ensure that animals who come into the care of Best Friends will never again be alone, hungry, sick, afraid or in pain. We invite you to join us in helping to bring about the time when there will be no more homeless pets.