Whois & Analysis for bestfriends.org

Best Friends Animal Society, founded in its present form in 1991, is an American nonprofit 501(c)(3) animal welfare organization.

Best Friends works nationwide in outreach programs with shelters, rescue groups and members to promote pet adoption, no-kill animal rescue, and spay-and-neuter practices.

A "no-kill" shelter is an animal shelter that does not kill healthy or treatable animals even when the shelter is full, reserving euthanasia for terminally ill animals or those considered dangerous to public safety.

A no-kill shelter uses many strategies to promote shelter animals; to expanding its resources using volunteers, excellent housing and medical protocols; and to work actively to lower the number of homeless animals entering the shelter system.

An animal rescue group or animal rescue organization is dedicated to pet adoption.

These groups take unwanted, abandoned, abused, or stray pets and attempt to find suitable homes for them.

Many rescue groups are created by and run by volunteers, who take the animals into their homes and care for them — including training, playing, handling medical issues, and solving behavior problems — until a suitable permanent home can be found.

An animal sanctuary is a facility where animals are brought to live and be protected for the rest of their lives.

Unlike animal shelters, sanctuaries do not seek to place animals with individuals or groups, instead maintaining each animal until his or her natural death.

In some cases, an establishment may have characteristics of both a sanctuary and a shelter; for instance, some animals may be in residence temporarily until a good home is found and others may be permanent residents.

The mission of sanctuaries is generally to be safe havens, where the animals receive the best care that the sanctuaries can provide.

Animals are not bought, sold, or traded, nor are they used for animal testing.

The resident animals are given the opportunity to behave as natural as possible in a protective environment.

Pet Rescue was a British daytime TV series broadcast on Channel 4.

Launched in January 1997, it chronicled various pets and animals being rescued, cared for, and then either rehoused or returned to the wild.