Dogs and cats roam free as first cageless animal shelter in US opens in Arkansas
Fox News
Best Friends Animal Society has changed the model of animal sheltering by opening the first completely cageless Best Friends Pet Resource Center in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Unlike traditional animal shelters filled with cages and kennels, this new center in Arkansas takes a free-range approach, allowing its dogs and cats to inhabit rooms within the shelter. Best Friends Animal Society aims to make America's shelters kill-free by 2025. (Russell Bloodworth Photography) A little girl kisses an adoptable dog on the head at Best Friends Pet Resource Center in Bentonville, Arkansas, on March 11, 2023. (Russell Bloodworth Photography) A puppy romps about during a yoga class at Best Friends Pet Resource Center in Bentonville, Arkansas. (Russell Bloodworth Photography) A family takes home a puppy at the grand opening of Best Friends Pet Resource Center in Bentonville, Arkansas, on March 11, 2023. (Russell Bloodworth Photography) A visitor spends time with an adoptable cat at Best Friends Pet Resource Center in Bentonville, Arkansas, on March 11, 2023. (Russell Bloodworth Photography) Animals "want to be with people. They want to be together." A man takes his dog down the indoor slide at the Best Friends Pet Resource Center grand opening in Bentonville, Arkansas, on March 11, 2023. (Russell Bloodworth Photography) A Best Friends volunteer holds an adoptable puppy in her lap at Best Friends Pet Resource Center in Bentonville, Arkansas, on March 11, 2023. (Russell Bloodworth Photography) A girl plays with a cat in one of Best Friends Pet Resource Center's cat rooms in Bentonville, Arkansas, on March 11, 2023. (Russell Bloodworth Photography) A puppy snoozes during a yoga session at Best Friends Pet Resource Center in Bentonville, Arkansas, on March 11, 2023. (Russell Bloodworth Photography) Angelica Stabile is a lifestyle writer for Fox News Digital.
Every pet up for adoption through the facility is matched up with a local foster family who takes them in each night and returns them to the center during the day.