The Best Friends Pet Resource Center is a place for pets — and the people who love them — in the heart of Bentonville, Arkansas.
The new center is a place where the community can adopt a new best friend, find a pet to foster, and come together to save the lives of dogs and cats in Northwest Arkansas and beyond.
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Celebrating a year of lifesaving
All donations to the Best Friends Pet Resource Center made through June 8 (Best Friends Day!) will be matched by Post Consumer Brands up to $100,000 to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the center’s grand opening.
Your gift helps save the lives of homeless pets here in Northwest Arkansas — and around the country — by providing spay/neuter services, funding vaccine clinics, ensuring quality veterinary care, promoting adoption, and so much more.
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Opportunities to connect and save the lives of pets
Have fun and connect with fellow animal lovers at adoption fairs and community events at the new Best Friends Pet Resource Center.
Upcoming events at the pet resource center
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From lectures to vaccination clinics to keep your dog or cat happy and healthy, there’s a variety of events and activities to take advantage of every single day.
Adoption Fees Covered by Blue Buffalo and Walmart
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From now through June 30, all adoption fees at all Best Friends locations across the nation are covered thanks to Blue Buffalo and Walmart! What better time to adopt a new furry family member and Bring Love Home!
Blue Buffalo will cover adoption fees for May and June up to $275,000.
NW Arkansas Super Adoption
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This will be Northwest Arkansas's first multiple-shelter adoption event and it's going to be a doozy! It will feature scores of NWA shelters and rescues and hundreds of pets. More info to come!
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Join us in this innovative work: Volunteer
Volunteers — passionate, caring people like you — are the heartbeat of our organization here in Northwest Arkansas. You make saving dogs and cats possible.
Whatever your interests, there’s a way you can help. Volunteers are needed for everything from cat socialization to photographing adoptable animals to making pet-enrichment toys at the center’s volunteer maker space.
Volunteers also help with off-site clinics, events in the community, and transporting pets to other areas of the country where they’re most likely to find a home. The gift of your time makes a tremendous difference in the lives of homeless pets.
Become a Volunteer
Best work. Best perks. Best Friends.
Do you have a passion for helping your community and homeless pets? The new Best Friends Pet Resource Center in Northwest Arkansas is hiring!
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Adopt to save cats and dogs in Northwest Arkansas
When you adopt a dog or cat, you’re not only saving a life, but you’re also freeing up space and resources for pets in shelters throughout Arkansas.
You’re freeing up space and resources for pets in shelters throughout Arkansas, and giving them a chance to grow, thrive and find families of their very own. You might not feel like a hero, but to one animal, you’re the entire world.
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Find out more about pet adoption through Best Friends in Northwest Arkansas.
Photo courtesy of Russell Bloodworth
Welcome to the future of animal sheltering
We’re ushering in a new era of lifesaving at Best Friends Pet Resource Center in Northwest Arkansas.
This is a place where families can find loving, adoptable cats and dogs along with any help they might need to keep their pets happy and healthy.
The pet resource center is a first-of-its-kind, fully reimagined facility that upends the traditional model of animal shelters and introduces a compassionate new standard focused on saving lives. Its design and operation reflect an understanding that our animal companions are an integral part of our families and our communities.
Be a part of it
We’re here for you and for the entire community
Find your new best friend, vaccinate your dog or cat, find the pet supplies you need, and do so much more at the pet resource center!
See everything the new center has to offer
Give to save lives
Triple your impact when you donate through June 8.
All donations made to the Best Friends Pet Resource Center through June 8 will be matched by Post Consumer Brands up to $100,000 to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the center’s grand opening.
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Lifesaving tales from Northwest Arkansas
Your generosity makes possible these pets’ stories of hope, love and resilience.
Shop to save lives in Northwest Arkansas and nationwide
When you shop at the Best Friends Store, the proceeds go right to work providing lifesaving care and companionship to animals in Northwest Arkansas and beyond.
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Visit us!
The new Best Friends Pet Resource Center is open! Check out all the great things you’ll find here when you visit.
Location and parking
1312 Melissa Drive
Bentonville, AR 72712
The pet resource center is in the heart of the Bentonville greenspace that will become the 8th Street Gateway Park. Parking is available at the center.
Pet resource center hours
11 a.m. to 7 p.m., seven days a week
Phone
479-974-1363
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