Thursday, July 2, 2009

Sizzling!

Red Hot’ author, Devin O’Branagan’s latest raffle is to benefit Best Friends animals again.

Philanthropic puppies

A streaming live video featuring some foster pups helps raise awareness and earn funds for animal organizations, including Best Friends.

FIV cats score forever homes thanks to two Chicagoans who say, 'So what?'

Research and love pays off for two cats cats with feline immunodeficiency virus.

The medium and the message

Current media articles and stories about Best Friends.

An artist’s paradise

Artists turn Best Friends animals into artwork.

Good to the last dog

Silver Bean Coffee launches Best Friends Blend to raise money for the animals.

Pele: A dog who loves a good read

Best Friends takes reading program to kids at libraries.

Is it Christmas already?

Inspired by a picture book, toy drives benefit the animals at Best Friends and shelters across the U.S.

Going batty

Utah Division of Wildlife Resources conducts bat study at the sanctuary.

Best Friends ad to be featured in Oprah Magazine

Ad highlights Puppies Aren’t Products campaign, bringing the message to adopt, not shop, to millions.

HSUS, Maddie’s Fund team up to promote shelter adoptions

Best Friends campaigns aim to keep pets out of shelters

The medium and the message

A brief look at Best Friends stories that appear in local and national media.

"The Office" visit

Loyal longtime member brings a new fan to Best Friends.

Best Case Scenario

Songstress Neko Case spreads the Best Friends word during Salt Lake performance.

Today Chicago, tomorrow the nation

Best Friends sponsors ground-breaking study to determine and assess the needs of companion animals in Chicago.

Stately recognition

Utah Gov. Huntsman declares July 19-25 ‘Best Friends Week.’

Season finale!

Two rescued puppy mill dogs find health and happiness at Best Friends and a long time resident gets a new lease on life in this latest episode of 'DogTown.' Tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT

Fast and free

Greyhound Gathering celebrates its 10th year with gusto!

Raising the bar on horse care

The Equine Lameness Prevention Organization strives to bring a high level of professional and ethical conduct to hoof care

Improving the image of pit bulls: ‘America’s Dog’

‘Pits and Perception’ exhibit by Best Friends Cyrus Mejia showcased in New York.

The resiliency of dogs

With love, care and training, Vicktory dogs thrive at Best Friends and you can see them featured on National Geographic Channel’s ‘DogTown.’

Loretta Swit: life informs art

Artist, actress, designer and animal activist are one under the sun

Boon to the breed

Over the past year and a half, the Vicktory dogs have made incredible strides in healing themselves and enhancing the reputation of their breed.

Doggedness

This week’s episode of ‘DogTown’ is a study in endurance and patience.

Mazeltov from the animals!

Young woman gives her bat mitzvah monetary gifts to Best Friends, with a pledge to serve animals.

What are you tired of?

Siblings spin recycled tires into bracelets proclaiming “I’m Tired of Animal Cruelty” to raise money for Best Friends.

Letter from Angel Canyon: Archaeology

Hike the Vermillion Cliffs with the author and discover the ancient and the mysterious writ in the rock.

Fairy tales can come true

Follow the 'DogTown' tales of five hard luck canines to their happy-ever-after endings.

Easing the burden

Best Friends takes five friendly dogs from a nearby, recently turned no-kill Utah animal shelter. Now Nessie, Pilot, Grady, Gretta and Laney have new leases on life.

A fitting memorial

Hard Rock Cafe honors former employee and helps Best Friends in a tribute to his love for animals.

Sweepstakes for dogs’ sake

Win a trip to Best Friends and help the stars of ‘DogTown’ change a dog’s life.

Paying it forward

A soldier’s sister visits Best Friends and remembers his incredible kindness to the two Iraqi dogs he rescued.

‘Hot Lips’ at Best Friends!

Artist and actress Loretta Swit exhibits her paintings at Best Friends.

Shades of grey

Greyhounds descend upon Kanab on May 15.

One very happy dog

Puppy mill survivor thrives in forever home in West Virginia.

Friends in need

It’s Best Friends to the rescue in “DogTown” episode.

Friends across the miles

People helping animals from afar through My Best Friend program.

The trip of a lifetime

Youth leaders of Safe Humane Chicago recount their Best Friends experience.

Marsupial magnetism

Opossums Felix and Oscar draw the crowds in at a recent Earth Day celebration outside Zion National Park.

Pet Airways

A friendly way to fly your pet

Red-emption

The love of a paralyzed dog helps his person recover.

A fighting chance

This week’s “DogTown” episode showcases three dogs with very different behavioral problems.

An exchange of ideas

Safe Humane Chicago youth leaders and Best Friends humane educators swap teaching techniques.

The second time around

Back by popular demand, this week Best Friends’ dog trainer and manager John Garcia is making his second appearance on “The Ellen Show.”

A victory for canine victims of violence

Best Friends and other groups join forces to save ‘America’s dog’

The right-now plan

Former architectural conservator, Barbara Weider couldn’t wait for her five-year plan to take effect.

Hope without borders

This Friday’s ‘DogTown’ episode focuses on a shy refugee, a traumatized hurricane survivor and an incontinent senior.

Spring break at Best Friends

Safe Humane Chicago inner city youth leaders spend their vacation time working, learning.

Groundbreaking news for puppies

Leading-edge Puppy Care Center will be all about puppies.

Eau de turkey vulture

Wild Friends saves a turkey vulture caught in a defunct zoo’s bear pen.

Paul Eckhoff

Friends, family pay tribute to one of the original Best Friends founders who passed away recently at age 72.

Hugo, I go, we all go to DogTown

The latest DogTown episode follows two very different street dogs from Ethiopia, a retriever whose paw was mangled in a coyote trap, and Hugo, who badly bit a family member.

Vegas winners

Inspired by Best Friends, two women pull together groups for an entertaining adoption festival—Las Vegas style.

Letter from Angel Canyon

Glide with the author through the crystal fields near Bryce Canyon, Utah.

Help to the rescue

Tips for animal rescue groups on how to survive the economic crisis

animalkind

The art of Cyrus Mejia, a Best Friends founder, was included in a cutting-edge exhibit at San Diego State University.

Meet Best Friends

Kristi Littrell says animals have great lives at the sanctuary, but “we want them to have even better lives.”

‘DogTown’ viewing parties

Groups around the country gathered to watch the premiere episode of the new ‘DogTown’ season, and some got to ask questions of one of the stars.

Wild friends?

Two peregrine falcons didn’t quite hit it off in captivity, but they might in the wild.

‘DogTown’ stars on The Today Show

Get ready for the season premiere of “DogTown” by checking out interviews with two of Best Friends’ Dogtown staff: veterinarian Patti Iampietro and animal behaviorist Sherry Woodard.

A horse, a cat, a grape...

Flicka and Charlotte are the latest to appear on labels of custom wines whose sales benefit the animals at Best Friends.

New episodes of ‘DogTown’ are back!

With a legion of fans and a Genesis Award nomination, “DogTown,” the series about the good work of Best Friends, begins its third season March 20 on the National Geographic Channel.

Chicago study

Best Friends will do research and provide recommendations to improve the environment for companion animals in Chicago.

A family again

Stolen from a car two years ago in California, Little Bebe turned up last week in a Utah shelter. Last night, she turned up in her person’s arms.

Golden girl

Best Friends rehabilitates and releases a golden eagle who had nearly stuffed herself to death.

Oh, Bebe!

Stolen from her person’s car two years ago in California, Little Bebe turned up last week in a Utah shelter. Best Friends is driving her to an emotional reunion tonight.

‘Petonomics’

Our two-part series shows how people and rescues are finding ways to ensure companion animals don’t suffer during hard times, and lists resources for those who need help.

This economy bites!

Our two-part series shows how people and rescues are finding ways to ensure companion animals don’t suffer during hard times, and lists resources for those who need help.

Swiners’ convention

Best Friends ferries a trio of potbellied pigs to a new home.

River Valley wrap-up

Best Friends’ team returns from Missouri after rounding up and placing in rescues some 200 dogs saved from an unlicensed breeder who allegedly set fire to his kennels.

River Valley rescue: Wrangling

Best Friends team in Missouri rounds up more than half the 200 dogs left on the torched breeding farm, assesses them and sends them on their way with animal groups.

Food networking

Best Friends prepares for its adoption festival in Los Angeles by holding a pet food drive for local shelters, rescues.