Emergency Response Stories

Trained volunteers are dispatched across the country and roll up their sleeves to help with everything from natural disasters to staffing shortages.

After a zoo in Puerto Rico closed, hundreds of animals needed new places to live — and help getting there.

A tornado blew the roof off Pasadena Animal Shelter, but quick action and collaboration assured the safety of every animal.

Here are just a few of the more than 370 cats and dogs Best Friends has moved out of Florida since Hurricane Ian hit.

Bringing complete strangers together to form one incredible, lifesaving team.

Teams work nonstop to assist dogs and cats in Florida shelters

Baxter the cat and Larry, a big black dog, recently passed away, but not before filling their homes with joy and love.

Hundreds of pets find safety after the storm, and more help is on the way

Saving the lives of pets means working together to share knowledge and solutions, and that's what we're doing all across the country.

Q&A with Keith Slim-Tolagai, Best Friends Navajo Nation program specialist

Best Friends and partners help both people and their pets during unprecedented frigid temperatures in the Lone Star State.

Fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina, one of the last surviving cats at the Sanctuary has just been adopted.

Best Friends Animal Society and other shelters and rescues work together to help at-risk pets in the path of Hurricane Dorian evacuate.

To help dogs and cats affected by the Arkansas flooding, Gleaning for the World, a humanitarian organization, steps up with big pet supplies donation.

Heartbroken shelter puppy at the Palm Valley Animal Center in Edinburg, Texas, is transported to the Portsmouth Humane Society in Virginia to be adopted.