Spring Break: Best Friends Animal Sanctuary

Best Friends Animal Sanctuary

Alternative Spring Break 2014
March 22nd-28th 2014
Kanab, UT

Throughout this Alternative Break opportunity we will be surrounded by a variety of animals - large and small, as we help the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary to meet their goal of no-kill shelters across the country.  Our work, experience and reflections will teach us the importance of animal rights, and much more about careful animal ownership.

Best Friends Animal Society is a non-profit group founded on a no-kill principle, instead focusing on spay/neuter initiatives and adoption.  The Society runs the largest no-kill shelter in the nation, the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary - at which injured animals are rehabilitated and prepared for adoption.  In many cases, animals that will never be ready for adoption live permanently at the Sanctuary.  Cats, dogs, rabbits, pigs, horses and parrots are among the many animals that stay at the Sanctuary, located in Angel Valley, Utah.  The Sanctuary provides emergency response to animals affected by natural disaster, and is unique in the fact that it also caters to wildlife in Utah.  Volunteers clean the different animal habitats, feed the animals, socialize with them - and take them into Kanab to become more comfortable in the world. 

In addition to the Sanctuary in Kanab, the Society has shelters all over the nation - with partners in New York and Los Angeles focusing on spay- and neutering.  Nationally, the society spearheads a variety of initiatives targeting puppy mills and the mischaracterization of pit bulls.