Best Friends Animal Society

Home is more than four walls and a roof 🏡 It is a place where we should feel safe and loved 🧡 Everyone deserves a home — and that includes pets in shelters 😸🐶    Shelter and rescue workers like you are working hard to find homes for every pet, but the reality is that today, not every dog and cat gets to experience the love and comfort of home. 💔     All we need is just 6% more people to choose to adopt versus purchase their pets to close the national lifesaving gap and #SaveThemAll! 🧡   Help us #BringLoveHome for pets across our nation - share and get your community involved in lifesaving! 🧡🐾 Visit bestfriends.org/home to learn more.

Did you catch our webinar last week, Start Fundraising Now: Your Formula for Year-End Asks? Watch the replay: https://lnkd.in/gFQ8pXtA You need more funds for your mission, but you're too busy saving lives to figure out how? Watch this webinar to learn to create impactful direct mail, email, and social media campaigns that resonate with your supporters. We share the formula for a winning appeal, including the timeline and key pieces for maximum impact on each channel. Huge thanks to our experts! ✅ Whitney Zoghby, Executive Director, Paws4Ever ✅ Sarah Goldberg, Philanthropy Advisor, Best Friends Animal Society ✅ Michelle Dosson, Pacific Regional Director, Best Friends Animal Society

Calling all researchers! Have you completed (or almost completed) research in the world of animal services? Best Friends National Conference invites you to submit your research to our BFNC Poster Sessions, where animal welfare conference attendees can directly interact with researchers in a relaxed, social atmosphere. Researchers visually display highlights of their work and disseminate information about their research, initiative, or project face-to-face with a wider audience in the animal welfare field.  At BFNC Poster Sessions, conference attendees have the opportunity to directly interact with researchers as well as: 🟠 Casually browse the information and consume the data at their leisure 🟠 Speak with the researchers directly to ask questions, provide pertinent input, and inspire continued evolvement of the research 🟠 Make recommendations for additional important topics to be studied  🟠 Express interest in being involved in future research projects Submit your BFNC Poster Session proposal here by November 15: https://lnkd.in/eR4sPQaS Email [email protected] with any questions about the Best Friends National Conference Research Poster Session.

#AdoptaRyan in honor of Ryan Reynolds’s 48th birthday! Thanks to Ryan’s best friend Rob McElhenney, Best Friends Animal Society is waiving pet adoption fees today and tomorrow at all locations. There are 48 Ryan Reynolds at each location, plus more of their pals looking for homes. Not ready to adopt? Rob is matching all donations made to Best Friends through the end of October, up to $25,000. Learn more: bfas.org/adoptaryan. Once you’ve adopted, be sure to share your photo with #AdoptARyan Home for a chance to be featured on our social media! Happy birthday, Ryan Reynolds! cc: More Better, Maximum Effort

Save the date! The Best Friends National Conference is happening February 20-22 in Palm Springs, California. Join us! https://brnw.ch/21wO0qE

Amidst the devastation of Hurricane Helene in Asheville, our network partner Sister Kitten is helping the community get back on their feet by delivering desperately needed supplies to impacted residents, both four and two legged. Watch: https://lnkd.in/ejPUkvA6

The Hurricane Helene Relief Clinic in western North Carolina is a testament to the incredible lifesaving work that can be accomplished when likeminded people and organizations come together to help pets. It has all been made possible by Best Friends Network Partners Providence Animal Center, who loaned their Fido Fixers mobile veterinary unit to the effort, and Massachusetts SPCA, who sent their whole veterinary team down to support the operation. There are also numerous veterinarians and vet techs in the local area donating their time to the clinic. The clinic is filling a critical gap in animal care in the communities hardest hit by Hurricane Helene. This free mobile clinic is scheduled to operate from October 13 until November 15, rotating between Heart of the Foothills Animal Rescue in Rutherford County and Yancey County Humane Society in Yancey County. In one day alone, the mobile clinic treated 32 dogs, 16 cats, and even a rabbit, serving 49 animals from 36 families.

"As you may know, our city of Asheville has been hit HARD by Hurricane Helene. Roads are flooded or washed out, trees are down everywhere, power is out city-wide. Water is out. I’m single-handedly caring for the animals at our Nursery because our staff members and volunteers can’t safely make it in. Our fosters (some of whom have sick kittens) can’t reach us because phone service is out. I’m writing this from a parking lot where I’ve been able to get the lightest signal for posting." These words were written by Andee Bingham, Esther Neonatal Kitten Alliance director, after Hurricane Helene brought devastating flooding to western North Carolina and the surrounding areas. With help from Best Friends' emergency response team, ENKA, a Best Friends Network Partner, was able to adjust their work in response to the community's needs brought about by Helene: 1️⃣ Bottle-feeding classroom ➡️ Pet-food pantry 2️⃣ Kitten nursery ➡️ Triage center for kittens and nursing moms from hurricane-affected areas Best Friends Emergency Response team's work is made possible by donations: https://lnkd.in/eV3NksKJ

Feeling stretched thin by fundraising events, but worried you won't be able to fund your mission if you cut back? Paws4ever, a brick-and-mortar rescue in central North Carolina, did just that a few years ago under executive director Whitney Zoghby's leadership, and now raises MORE money. Hear more about how they accomplish all these fundraising goals at our upcoming webinar, Start Fundraising Now: Your Formula for Year-End Asks. Whitney and our other expert panelists, Sarah Goldberg, Best Friends’ Philanthropy Advisor, and Michelle Dosson, Best Friends’ Pacific Regional Director, will guide you through creating impactful direct mail, email, and social media campaigns that resonate with your supporters. We’ll share the formula for a winning appeal, including the timeline and key pieces for maximum impact on each channel. Whether you’re gearing up for year-end fundraising already, or brand new to it, you can gain practical tips to start using TODAY. Register now and join live on Tuesday, October 22 at 5pm ET: https://bit.ly/3XS64xH

As part of our commitment to keep pets safe, Best Friends’ emergency response team works to save lives during natural disasters and emergencies. We deliver supplies to hard-hit shelters and rescue groups, transport displaced pets to areas where they’ll be safe, support emergency sheltering efforts and reunite lost pets with their families. But none of this work is possible without the incredible support of our community of animal advocates nationwide. We are grateful for everyone who has helped us spread the word about this important lifesaving work and how people can get involved. The New York Times has shared several stories of this work in the past week, like this one, reported by Annie C.: https://lnkd.in/eAYzTH4d (subscription required) Support from The New York Times covering these critical stories helps us at Best Friends, and other organizations providing relief, to give even more support to pets and people who truly need it. If you can support our hurricane relief efforts, donate: https://lnkd.in/eV3NksKJ