My Nonprofit Reviews

If you were to ask me to tell you something negative about Best Friends, I would think for hours and hours and not be able to give you an answer. The staff are wonderful caring resourceful people, and their care of animals is superb. My husband and I have volunteered there several times, and we've always left with a good feeling knowing that the animals we met would always have a home, if not outside of Best Friends, then within the comfort of the facility itself.

We've watched BF staff train puppies using a lifelike kitchen and living area with a noisy vacuum, a doorbell, and many other household items that can be scary to pups and dogs.
We've watched them hold and cuddle abused animals until they begin to feel safe again, and become adoptable. And the enormous role they played in rehabilitating many of the "Vicktory Dogs" from Michael Vicks' Bad Newz kennels is unparalleled.

Best Friends places a high value on the life of each animal that comes under their care, and this is exemplified by their effort to make the U.S. a "no kill" nation by the year 2025.

Never in my life had I received a phone call to thank me for making a donation to a charitable organization. That is, until the day I returned home to a voice mail message from one of the founders of Best Friends Animal Society, thanking both my husband and me, individually by our names, for our support of their programs. It demonstrated not only how highly they value their supporters, but also how serious they take their mission to "save them all." Ginny R