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Friends for Life Houston


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Friends for Life (FFL) is a progressive, fast-growing no kill animal rescue and adoption agency. We are a non profit founded in 2002 and have rescued or placed thousands of animals into adoptive homes in that time.

Mission Statement:

We save animals’ lives. We find creative ways to do it and are passionate about success at it. Animals are our primary clients and everything we do is based on what is in their best interest individually or as a group.

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.


Address:
107 E. 22nd Street
Houston, TX, 77008

Call Us: 713-863-9835

Email Us: [email protected]

Do you need to find a loving home for your pet?

No-kill shelters do wonderful work, but as a result, are often inundated with pet surrenders. In the unfortunate scenario that you have to find a new home for your pet, please read through the rehoming solution and articles on this page before contacting the shelter.

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Feral Cat TNR Program
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High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter
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Rescue Groups
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Foster Care
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Comprehensive Adoption Programs
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Pet Retention
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Medical and Behavior Programs
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Public Relations/Community Involvement
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Volunteers
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Proactive Redemptions
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A Compassionate Director
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1. Feral Cat TNR Program

Many communities are embracing Trap, Neuter, Release programs (TNR) to improve animal welfare, reduce death rates, and meet obligations to public welfare.


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2. High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter

Low cost, high volume spay/neuter will quickly lead to fewer animals entering the shelter system, allowing more resources to be allocated toward saving lives.


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3. Rescue Groups

An adoption or transfer to a rescue group frees up scarce cage and kennel space, reduces expenses for feeding, cleaning, killing, and improves a community's rate of lifesaving. In an environment of millions of dogs and cats killed in shelters annually, rare is the circumstance in which a rescue group should be denied an animal.


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4. Foster Care

Volunteer foster care is crucial to No Kill. Without it, saving lives is compromised. It is a low cost, and often no cost, way of increasing a shelter's capacity, improving public relations, increasing a shelter's public image, rehabilitating sick and injured or behaviorally challenged animals, and saving lives.


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5. Comprehensive Adoption Programs

Adoptions are vital to an agency's lifesaving mission. The quantity and quality of shelter adoptions is in shelter management's hands, making lifesaving a direct function of shelter policies and practice. In fact, studies show people get their animals from shelters only 20% of the time. If shelters better promoted their animals and had adoption programs responsive to the needs of the community, including public access hours for working people, offsite adoptions, adoption incentives, and effective marketing, they could increase the number of homes available and replace killing with adoptions. Contrary to conventional wisdom, shelters can adopt their way out of killing.


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6. Pet Retention

While some of the reasons animals are surrendered to shelters are unavoidable, others can be prevented-but only if shelters are willing to work with people to help them solve their problems. Saving animals requires communities to develop innovative strategies for keeping people and their companion animals together. And the more a community sees its shelters as a place to turn for advice and assistance, the easier this job will be.


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7. Medical and Behavior Programs

In order to meet its commitment to a lifesaving guarantee for all savable animals, shelters need to keep animals happy and healthy and keep animals moving through the system. To do this, shelters must put in place comprehensive vaccination, handling, cleaning, socialization, and care policies before animals get sick and rehabilitative efforts for those who come in sick, injured, unweaned, or traumatized.


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8. Public Relations/Community Involvement

Increasing adoptions, maximizing donations, recruiting volunteers and partnering with community agencies comes down to one thing: increasing the shelter's exposure. And that means consistent marketing and public relations. Public relations and marketing are the foundation of all a shelter's activities and their success. To do all these things well, the shelter must be in the public eye.


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9. Volunteers

Volunteers are a dedicated "army of compassion" and the backbone of a successful No Kill effort. There is never enough staff, never enough dollars to hire more staff, and always more needs than paid human resources. That is where volunteers come in and make the difference between success and failure and, for the animals, life and death.


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10. Proactive Redemptions

One of the most overlooked areas for reducing killing in animal control shelters are lost animal reclaims. Sadly, besides having pet owners fill out a lost pet report, very little effort is made in this area of shelter operations. This is unfortunate because doing so-primarily shifting from passive to a more proactive approach-has proven to have a significant impact on lifesaving and allow shelters to return a large percentage of lost animals to their families.


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11. A Compassionate Director

The final element of the No Kill equation is the most important of all, without which all other elements are thwarted-a hard working, compassionate animal control or shelter director not content to regurgitate tired cliches or hide behind the myth of "too many animals, not enough homes." Unfortunately, this one is also oftentimes the hardest one to demand and find.


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I’m so sorry for the owners who are looking for their lost pups/cats. Please keep posting. People are paying attention.
posted by [email protected], on 2024-04-17 22:38:04
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I am searching for our Cat, his name is Sammy and he is two years old, black and white. He has orange-yellow eyes. We are searching for Sammy since five to six months.
posted by Laura Stern, on 2023-10-30 17:22:50
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Hello I lost my cat, Garfield, in the third ward area Sunday morning 2/12/23. He was last seen by a family on Monday 2/13/23. He was lost on Emancipation Ave and Winbern and seen on the street that meets with Winbern on Bastrop St. He is a small orange tabby kitten, with a white stripe on the right side of his face. If you see him and grab him for me you will be given a $ reward, please let me know if you see him @ (713)459-2103
posted by [email protected], on 2023-02-16 20:57:17
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Hola se me perdió mi perrito Woody es un razaSCHNAUZER ,desapareció en Fifth Ward cerca de calles Jensen st y Nance .su tamaño es pequeño,color crema ,cabello semi ondulado, ,orejas caídas...es el mejor amigo de mi papá y ahora está triste.Doy 200 dollar de Recompensa .Me llamo Victor y mi teléfono es 3462558285.. please ayudame si tienes información Dios te bendiga...
posted by [email protected], on 2022-12-19 20:16:53
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Hello all, please help find my lost Shitzu his name is Romeo black and white, last seen Friday 12/02 near El seno st. Near Barker Cypress and Boca chica Ln.
posted by [email protected], on 2022-12-05 18:16:42
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Hi everyone, I lost my dog Bandit 2 days ago. He’s mixed breed Small brown and white. He looks like a Corkie. I live in the Fort Bend area in Richmond in the Heights area. The streets that intersects with our road is Center Road and Squirrel.
posted by [email protected], on 2022-11-15 19:56:15
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lost Sugar on 10/09/2022 around beltway 8 & memorial 77024. she is small, female with long white hair and she is blind in both eyes. please email [email protected] if you have any information. thank you
posted by [email protected], on 2022-10-13 20:54:13
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lost Sugar on 10/09/2022 around beltway 8 & memorial 77024. she is small, female with long white hair and she is blind in both eyes. please [email protected] if you have any information. thank you
posted by [email protected], on 2022-10-13 20:53:49
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I lost my dog in 10/4/2022 his names BUCK and is a brown pit and lab mix he has a white line going up his nose he doesn’t have his collar he was last seen in Cedar Lane around the area
posted by xAzraellx, on 2022-10-08 21:05:18
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I lost my Lil dog name Stitch. He’s black with a white chest and half paws white. He’s was mainly indoors-Short and shy. I took him and his sister in . We miss him and his sister misses him a lot!! he went missing near wayside and Ave E… Please msg me if you find him. We really want him home and safe…
posted by [email protected], on 2022-09-08 01:21:51
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