Home for Life Sanctuary - Third Door in Animal Welfare

Ashley Judd
with
Gracie (far left)
Makwa (center)

Learn more about and help the dogs and cats who call Home for Life® sanctuary their home, with the care they need by sponsoring an individual animal.

Mission and Third Door

Find out about our Mission and the "Third Door" solution for animals without other rescue options.

Community Outreach

Learn about our community animal outreach programs: Peace Creatures®, Senior Outreach, Sit-Stay-Heal, The Renaissance Project, and Education Outreach.

"Spring" Photos by Mark Luinenburg

Left: Gus, a Giant Schnoodle with a Giggle Ball, and one of our paraplegic dogs from Mexico

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Groundbreaking News! Update May 2023.

Above: Update—Breaking ground for the long-hoped-for Dog Training and Exercise Building

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Sponsor Happiness

Wish you could give them all a home? You Can!

As a sponsor, your monthly or annual donation will help us to continue providing a secure, healthy environment where animals who were formerly abused, neglected, and rejected can thrive and begin again to participate in the joy of being that is the right of all living things.

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Winter Blues? Cheer up with this video of Una & his Friends— "I've got my love to keep me warm!"

Some have been asking for an update on Una, our puppy who survived being shot in the face. With more bitter cold upon us, here's a video to warm your heart: Una and his friends enjoying a snow day earlier this week.

What Is The Third Door®?

Home for Life®, an internationally recognized care for life sanctuary, and in 2019, voted one of the 10 Most Amazing Sanctuaries in the country by USA Today, offers a service to animals in need like no comparative organization. Many shelters and rescue organizations aspire to find a home for every animal and dream of the day when there will be no homeless animals. At Home for Life®, that's what we want too—and that's what we provide—for dogs and cats that are overlooked for placement. Home for Life® has created a new idea, the care for life sanctuary—a life-saving and life-affirming alternative for dogs and cats who have not been able to find a home or keep the home they had and for animals who have lifelong special care needs, that most adopters cannot provide. We call our idea "The Third Door®" in animal welfare which gives at-risk dogs and cats, animals who might have been passed over for adoption, an alternative to an undeserved death. The dream of a home should be an opportunity that is available for all dogs and cats, and now with Home for Life®, and the innovative model we have created at our prototype sanctuary in Star Prairie, WI, it can be!

Donate to Home for Life®

Home for Life® is a registered 501 (c) (3) charity. Your donation provides the animals of Home for Life® with food, veterinary care, toys and a beautiful facility to roam freely. One hundred percent of donations go to helping these animals receive the medical care they need, as well as the affection and freedom to help them recover from illness, disability, mistreatment or neglect. With your help, these incredible animals can lead the full, safe and happy lives they deserve.

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Jafar

Above: Jafar, now, at Home for Life®

We are very proud of this guy, whose name is Jafar, and who seemed nuclear when at a Minnesota animal control facility.

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Bandit

Above: Bandit a stunning Catahoula, who came up from the south to the Animal Humane Society of Minnesota, was then taken in by New Leash Rescue, where she was for better than a year.

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Tangelo

Above: Tangelo came from an impound west of Minneapolis. He is shy and FIV+ and was overlooked by rescues who focus on adoptable kitties.

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