It’s a wrap!

The Best Friends rescue team is back but the work continues.

The bark that launched a rescue

Best Friends rescue team finds a well-mannered beagle: safe but thirsty.

Letter from Angel Canyon: Red-tail hawks

A recent close encounter shows how Angel Canyon’s distinctive raptors inspire and delight.

eBay calls it puppy love

Thousands cheer in Chicago as eBay presents Best Friends with a ‘groundbreaking’ check for the new Puppy Care Center.

It’s here! Dogtown: the book

From a hit TV series to a DVD, now there’s a great new book about this safe haven for special pooches. Check it out!

One vet’s ‘miracle of timing’

When stranded pets start drinking murky water, a special volunteer appears just in time to help the animals.

New book: Pawprints of Katrina

Best Friends writer Cathy Scott’s new book tells behind-the-scenes stories from history’s biggest animal rescue. Upcoming signing marks national release.

Jeld-Wen 100: Biggest win ever for Iowa pets!

Driver Andrew Prendeville pledges race proceeds to help rescue pets in Iowa’s flood zone. See how much was raised...

Danger lurks in “dirty” water

The Best Friends rescue team needs to stay safe from contaminated floodwater. Here’s how they do it

Up a tree with a cat named Squirrel

The latest Iowa flood rescue by the Best Friends. Read the story and watch the video.

Rigby’s family makes a smart move

With minutes to escape rising floodwaters, could Rigby and her kittens be moved to higher ground in time?

Almost home

From Spokane to St. Louis--a joyride for the Great Eight.

Andrew Prendeville races against time for animal flood victims

Andrew will race for Best Friends rescue efforts in Iowa this weekend.

Music to the animals’ ears

Rory Block and Animal Media Foundation raise money for Best Friends.

Best Friends deploys rescue team to Iowa

Companion animals stranded on balconies, rooftops are the targets.

Senior pooch picks a partner

Tina wasn't looking for a dog. She was simply volunteering at the sanctuary for a couple of days. Then 10-year-old Ginger made her an offer she couldn't refuse.

No More Homeless Pets Conference 2008

Join Best Friends in Las Vegas this October, and learn the skills you need to help animals in your own community, from raising funds to building memberships. Register online!

FLOCK cats get their day in court

A Nevada district attorney files animal cruelty charges against FLOCK, the desert compound where conditions were so bad that 800+ cats needed rescue by Best Friends.

Ohio breed ban: your dog in danger!

This proposed breed ban could hurt your dogs, whether you live in Ohio or not. Help stop it.

Vacation volunteers

The first group of people to purchase an eco- and vegetarian-friendly travel package that includes a trip to Best Friends spent their time working with the animals at our sanctuary.

Milwaukee's Best

Andrew Prendeville drove the Best Friends car to his best finish this season at the Milwaukee 100, and raised the most money in any single race this year.

New CD asks, "What Kind of Dog Am I?"

Sure to set tails wagging, Robbie Long makes music from a pooch's point of view.

Emerging from the flames

Her house ablaze, Hydra escapes. But she's haunted by the fire for months...until her family finds a way to help.

Available now: Dogtown on DVD!

The first episodes of "Dogtown," the hit TV series featuring the pooches and people of Best Friends, have been released on DVD. Get your copy here.

You. In the next Best Friends video?

Maybe...see how visitors will soon play a part in producing sanctuary videos.

Letter from Angel Canyon: Swifts

These fast and nimble flyers, whose scientific name means “sky sailors,” give new meaning to the concept of falling for somebody.

Dog-friendly restaurant raises $4,000

When pooches and their people eat at Bistro 17, the animals of Best Friends benefit in a big way.

Freedom 100: Big win for the animals

Andrew Prendeville and Best Friends car 5 raised $4,400 this weekend.

From Ethiopia, an American dream

Two dogs arrive at Best Friends to begin a whole new life

Teacup pups now safe

Cited for overcrowding, a California puppy mill unloads more than 100 dogs. And Best Friends is ready.

Expert on Antarctica visits Best Friends

Award-winning scientist Dr. Julie Palais has lots to say about Antarctica, global warming and volunteering at the sanctuary.

A gathering of greyhounds

A full-dress parade for pooches was just one of the festivities at the 9th annual Greyhound Gathering.

Faux posh

Under pressure from Last Chance for Animals and Best Friends, the Beverly Hills puppy boutique Posh Puppies appears ready to stop selling animals.

Saving Sidney

Days old, the abandoned kitten struggles for life by the roadside in Randolph, Iowa. Who will save her?

Racing Laps speeds to Indianapolis

It's not too late to pledge your support as the Best Friends number 5 car heads to Indy.

If you feed wild birds...

Experts say wild birds don’t really need us, but we enjoy feeding them all the same. Here are tips on doing it right.

Meet animal lovers online, earn bucks for Best Friends

It's the new social networking site just for pet lovers. Create your free profile and AnimalAttraction.com will donate to Best Friends. Here's how it works.

Racing to the slaughterhouse

Best Friends trainer Ann Hepworth, to whom horses are “nature in its finest form,” says the racing industry treats them like Kleenex: “They use them up and throw them away.”

‘Innocence and delight’

It’s all sunshine and ants for the pair of pups who Best Friends helped bring to the U.S. from Iraq earlier this year after their caregiver died while stationed in Baghdad.

The life of Riley

Riley the horse travels from the Best Friends sanctuary to Wyoming, where she will lose part of her severely infected leg, but gain a renewed lease on life.

Success in Georgia

Gov. Sonny Perdue has signed into law a tougher dog-fighting statute, which represents the collective work and cooperation of Best Friends and Georgia State Sen. Chip Rogers.

Thank you Oprah!

Members of the Best Friends Network are creating a token of their appreciation for Oprah, who recently brought the evils of puppy mills to the attention of millions.

Best Friends to manage relocation of California puppy mill rescues

Best Friends will assist Last Chance for Animals in placing puppies.

Letter from Angel Canyon: Hummingbirds

Best Friends writer Ted Brewer has sweet memories of hummingbirds, then and now.

Tag, she’s it

Celebrity chef and Emmy-nominated talk-show host Rachael Ray will feature Top Tag Pet IDs on her show this week. Best Friends, an exclusive partner of Top Tag, uses the IDs on the Vicktory dogs.

City of angels

Some 300 pets found new homes during the annual Best Friends Animal Society Spring Super Adoption Festival in Los Angeles.

A bid to help

eBay rewards Best Friends’ “commitment to making the world a better place” with a sizable grant and a fundraising campaign to help build a puppy care center at the sanctuary.

Every animal in the world

Air Supply isn’t so lost in love that the band can’t share some with Best Friends.

Page up

Best Friends’ new web adoption page makes it incredibly easy to find a pet who’s just right for you.

Training kept a-rollin’...

Respected dog caregiver Mike Harmon has been tapped to lead Best Friends’ Training Partners program, which pairs trainers across the country with behaviorally challenged dogs.

Courtside seats

Volunteers help set the bar higher for animal welfare cases in the legal system thanks to a program that is part of the Best Friends-sponsored Safe Humane Chicago initiative.

Meet Best Friends

Facing bankruptcy, Rick Van Tuyl gave up his parrots to a sanctuary so creditors wouldn’t take them. But the bond was too strong and he moved to Colorado to be near them. He volunteered at the sanctuary, got the birds back and continued on a career path that brought him to Best Friends.

Left behind

Family pets are the silent victims of the mortgage foreclosure crisis, and Best Friends has been counseling an increasing number of folks seeking advice on what to do when they lose their homes.

The calm after the storm

As ground zero for Best Friends’ Katrina rescue efforts, St. Francis Animal Sanctuary helped save thousands of animals. And while the disaster wiped out much of its donor base, the people there continue their work.

Into the wild

An orphaned and sick baby bobcat brought to the Best Friends sanctuary last summer was recently returned to the southern Utah back country after a successful stay at our wildlife rehab center.

Friends of friends

Local volunteers plan, organize and implement Best Friends’ participation in Earth Day.

Parroting the Best Friends line

A recent think tank at the sanctuary addressed the twin challenges involved in helping the third most popular pet in the country – ending the parrot trade and improving the lives of the parrots in Best Friends care.

Fair well

The Western Slope Regional Adoption Fair in Colorado finds forever homes for 153 animals.

Will sing for donations

Best Friends’ Juliette Watt put on a show to raise money for a local shelter, but the amount she raised turned out to be a show-stopper.

Youth Leaders

Graduation day is approaching for the inaugural class of teens schooled in responsible treatment of animals by Safe Humane Chicago, an innovative public/private coalition sponsored by Best Friends.

The 575 Project

Best Friends founder and artist Cyrus Mejia has published a book about “The 575 Project,” an art installation based on the statistic that 575 animals are killed in shelters each hour.

Fleet streets

Andrew Prendeville and the Best Friends number 5 car raced to a top-10 finish in the first of two races on the street course in St. Petersburg, Florida, but was the victim of an overzealous driver in the second race.

Emotional healing

Early results of a groundbreaking study show that the Vicktory dogs are making progress.

The fix is in

The TNR program that replaced the $5 bounty on stray cats in Randolph, Iowa, began on schedule this week.

Working to end violence

Best Friends is the national sponsor of Safe Humane Chicago, an innovative public/private coalition that wants to rid the city of dog fighting and other violence.