| Welcome! Enjoy these photo slideshows from the Best Friends staff photographers. Many of them are audio, so be sure and have your speakers on. Topics range from sanctuary animals, to grassroots shelters around the nation, to wildlife, and beyond. All working towards a world with No More Homeless Pets! |
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In New York City, a group of volunteers take care of the dogs on the shelter's kill list. A walk, a gentle pet on the head, a blanket - anything to make the dogs' last days more comfortable.  |
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Here at the sanctuary, we take a lot of photos - so we get a lot of outtakes! Too funny not to share, laugh along with us as you see these hilarious captured moments. |
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Pick me, pick me! As usual, Best Friends was flooded with beautiful kittens this summer. We wanted to show off these beauties so they would all find their forever home. See our adoptable kittens from the summer of 2010. |
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Pup My Ride was created to get dogs out of shelters and puppy mills and into areas where they are most likely to be adopted. In August 2010, we rescued 150 dogs in the Midwest and transported them to rescue groups on the East Coast. |
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In the middle of a desolate stretch of highway in Arizona is The Gap, a tiny community of people living on the Navajo reservation. For the past two years, Best Friends has been coming there to provide outreach, free spay/neuter, vaccinations, and food for the residents and their animals. |
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In the city of Chicago, Project Safe Humane works hard to protect the dogs who've been impounded due to legal entanglements and cruelty cases. These dogs who would have traditionally been confined and eventually euthanized, now have a second chance at life. |
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Spinning barnyarn tales of glee and whimsy of our lesser-known inhabitants. Did you know that goats, mules, donkeys, pigs, and sheep are cared for at Best Friends as well? |
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Over July 4 weekend, 118 beagles were emancipated from a research laboratory in New Jersey. What better way to celebrate America's independence by granting liberation to these sweet, helpless animals? |
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Here in southern Utah, we are host to a variety of high desert flora. Come explore Angel Canyon's blooming season with us (and a few of our animal residents, too). |
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Need a quick pick-me-up? Prepare to melt with overwhelming cuteness as you watch the July 2010 adoptable puppies at Best Friends. |
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The wild parrots of... Brooklyn? South American quaker parrots escape the pet trade and take up residence in the urban jungle. |
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Blind animals see a world of possiblities at Rolling Dog Ranch, a sanctuary for disabled animals in western Montana. While the animals living there have no shortage of obstacles to overcome, perhaps the biggest obstacle is people... |
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We call them the Vicktory Dogs - 22 pit bulls seized from ex-NFL star Michael Vick and placed in special care at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. They're here because they had nowhere else to go. Now, staff photographer Gary Kalpakoff wants to share their faces with the world. |
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Mills to Manhattan is the first of many life-saving transports of puppy mill dogs from commercial breeders in the Midwest to rescue organizations in New York City. 204 dogs were given a second chance at life. |
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For the tenth year, over 200 greyhounds converged on Kanab for the annual Greyhound Gathering, an event that celebrates the wonderful breed with a parade, races, auctions, hikes, lectures, and more. |
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Glacier National Park in Montana contains over one million acres of unspoiled wildnerness. Known to Native Americans as the "Backbone of the World", the park is named after the glaciers that carved out the landscape millions of years ago. |
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Some unlikely residents live in the shadows of the beautifully landscaped yards that grace the private community of Ocean Reef in Key Large, Florida. Around 350 stay and feral cats share this community of million-dollar homes with the rich and sometimes famous. |
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How one woman and one wild mustang proved that you can win with kindness. The Mustang Challenge tells the incredible transformation of a horse named Two Socks. |
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Angel Canyon, home to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, is an incredible place of peace and healing. Autumn in Angel Canyon is a time of brilliant beauty as the leaves flame their most brilliant colors before their winter slumber. |
