1. -“A better world through kindness to animals”

2.  “To lead a kindness revolution that transforms the way people relate to animals, nature, and each other.”

3.  Started in the late 1980s  Best Friends reaches across the nation and around the world, helping local communities to rescue animals in distress and to set up, spay/neuter, shelter, foster, and adoption programs in cities across the nation.  They find homes for dogs and cats that are considered unadoptable.  They go to shelters and homes and pick out dogs or cats that have mental or physical problems and place them in a loving home.

4.  They reduced the death rate of animals in shelters from 17 million a year to about 5 million per year.  They helped during Hurricane Katrina and with natural disasters in saving the lives of animals and placing them into foster homes.  Even though this entirely nonprofit organization, Best Friends Network has built animal sanctuaries all across the U.S.  Best Friends Animal Society is the largest no-kill sanctuary in the US providing international support to the animal welfare movement.

5.  It is an entirely nonprofit organization and anyone can donate. How to donate-  Mail to: Best Friends Animal Society 5001 Angel Canyon Road Kanab, Utah 84741-5000 OR Go to https://www.bestfriends.org/donate/give.cfmhttps://www.bestfriends.org/donate/give.cfm To call: (435) 644-2001 ext. 4801 By Mail: Make checks payable to -"Best Friends Animal Society"

6. By Sophie Hunter