Best Friends Animal Sanctuary

 On our way to Peek-a-boo Slot Canyon, we drove across the land belonging to the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary.

The Sanctuary owns 3,700 acres of land and leases an additional 33,000 acres from the Bureau of Land Management.  They are a no-kill animal shelter working to give animals that would otherwise be euthanized a place to peacefully live out their lives.

At any one time about sixteen-hundred animals live at the Sanctuary.  They live in communities with houses just like adoptive homes where they have their own little towns.  There is Bunny House, Dogtown, Cat World, Birdland, and others.

The Sanctuary has connections all over the United States and actively promotes spay-neuter programs as well as advocation for adoption rather than euthanasia.  Many animals are adopted from here, but, if not, they still live out their lives peacefully.  

There is a large area for houses, another large area for abandoned pet pigs, and a full veterinary clinic.

There is a very beautiful cemetery here for those animals who live out their lives at the Sanctuary.  If you adopt a pet from here, you may still return it for burial here when it dies.  People come back here again and again to visit the cemetery.  It is filled with hundreds of wind chimes to keep wild and unwanted animals away.

We loved visiting and learning about this place.