When will Home For Life® be expanding?

We have had lots of interest from all over the country from people wishing to establish a Home For Life®facility in their region. It is our ultimate objective to have a facility in every part of the country.

However, our first priority is to complete the capital campaign for our Star Prairie prototype, and to refine the protocols for management and care of the animals. Then we will export the proven methods and build a new facility where the methods will be actualized in each new region.

In the meantime, we have been exporting the concept of long term, quality care through the many nationwide contacts with whom we currently collaborate on behalf of the animals.

Why doesn't Home For Life® adopt out its animals?

When we formed Home For Life®, we were trying to fill a niche in animal welfare not currently being met. For example, in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area, which is our primary service area, there are more than 75–80 groups focused on adoption. Meanwhile, in the entire country, there are only a handful of organizations that cater to unadoptable animals.

Every day, we answer approximately 100 phone calls and emails from all over the country inquiring about our services. Instead of competing with the other excellent adoption organizations in our area, we decided to focus on an area that few have addressed.

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: The Photos of Seen But Not Heard Photography

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Photographer Chris Forslin of the Twin Cities, Minnesota first encountered Home for Life at the Mall of America during the years we had our Holiday events. As a lifelong animal lover and gifted photographer, she was eager to help Home for Life, and our sponsorship program seemed like the perfect opportunity for her to get involved. We were eager to have her out to Home for Life after seeing the incredible photos she did of the animals at the Minnesota Zoo.

Unwanted Animals find Home for Life at Heavenly Sanctuary

Unwanted Animals find Home for Life at Heavenly Sanctuary

Home for Life has been getting some buzz from social media sites lately, the most recent being a wonderful article featured on Carbonated TV! The people at Carbonated TV recognized the hard work Home for Life does to improve the lives of its animal residents, and calls the sanctuary "heavenly." To animals who are getting a well-deserved second chance, and a true home for life, it's true. 

Home for Life featured on Buzzfeed

Home for Life featured on Buzzfeed

Home for Life's incredible animals were featured in an article on Buzzfeed! Sami Main, a writer for Buzzfeed, saw some wonderful photos taken by Mark Luinenburg that showed the animals enjoying life to the fullest, and decided to write an article on them titled "Fourteen pets who don't let anything get them down." The animals at Home for Life are an inspiration, and we were happy to see that their courage and determination was noticed. 

Who wouldn't notice how cute they are! Please check out the Buzzfeed article here!

 

Home for Life featured on Public Television

Home for Life featured on Public Television

The best ambassadors for Home for Life's mission are our animals: we have always believed our at risk animals can help their human counterparts, at risk people of all ages. Instead of creating an isolated sanctuary, cut off from society, we thought the best way to safeguard our special animals was to make them part of the community. Although our animals have not been able to find placement in an adoptive home, they still have much to offer and much to give, a truth best demonstrated by them through our outreach programs which provide solace and joy through healing pet therapy.