Vision/Mission

Our Vision

We envision a community in which no animal will be killed for want of a loving home. Shelters accept their rightful responsibility as guardians and protectors of animals and we, as a society, accept no less from them.

Shelters will lead by example to promote a larger and more compassionate vision of the way companion animals are valued beginning with refusing to kill them.

Citizens and shelters will partner in saving animal lives and work together to ever-expand the network of rescues, fosters, volunteers and donors making life an option for animals.

Shelters will make humane education and seeking homes for animals a priority. It is time to move past the format of simply managing animal populations by killing. From board room to kennel, shelters will live up to their duty to be transformative beacons illuminating a future of kinship with all life.

Our Mission

Friends For Life redefines “adoptable.” We rescue, medically treat, and place animals into loving homes. We provide support to owners to keep animals in their homes and out of the shelter system altogether. Our humane education/engagement programs promote the view that animals are not disposable, but are companions who deserve our care and compassion. Our youth advocacy programs facilitate bringing to life kids’ ideas to make the world a better place. While there is immediate animal rescue work to be done, the path to permanent change is in expanding our circle of compassion toward animals and toward each other.