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| Last updated on May 18, 2008 |
Best Friends is working with individuals -- and with humane groups all across the country -- to bring about a time when there are No More Homeless Pets.
The mission of Best Friends is driven by the simple philosophy that kindness to animals helps build a better world for all of us.
Description:
Best Friends reaches across the nation, helping humane groups, individual people, and entire communities to embrace the philosophy of kindness and compassion as well as to set up spay/neuter, shelter, foster, and adoption programs in their own neighborhoods, cities, and states.
History:
Best Friends had its origin in Arizona in the 1970s with a group of animal lovers who were unwilling to accept the conventional wisdom of the time that humane societies and shelters "had no choice" but to kill their unadoptable animals.
In a pilot program they rescued animals from shelters where their luck was about to run out, rehabilitated them, and found homes for hundreds of these cast-off cats and dogs.
Those who were still unadoptable formed an eccentric assortment of wonderful and lovable creatures whose numbers grew until Best Friends was established in the early 1980s as a large and unique sanctuary at Angel Canyon in Utah.
In 1991 Best Friends became a non-profit, tax-exempt charity, and quickly grew to be the flagship of the rapidly growing no-kill movement throughout the 1990s. This No More Homeless Pets goal became central to the work of Best Friends, and by the end of the decade the number of animals being killed in shelters had dropped from about 15 million in 1990 to less than 5 million.
Contact people:
Address:
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5001 Angel Canyon Road
Kanab, UT 84741
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Web Site: http://www.network.bestfriends.org
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