Home for Life Sanctuary - Third Door in Animal Welfare

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.

Home for Life's 2023 Winter Appeal: Giving Animals a Place to Belong— Thank you so much for helping us meet our match goal!

Above: Our winter appeal once again will feature a wonderful illustration by Iain Welch inspired by this joyful Mark Luinenburg photo of Ben

Thanks to your generous support, Home for Life® met our match challenge with our 2023 Winter Appeal, featuring Ben, a small blind and brain damaged shepherd mix who survived a brutal beating as a puppy but who overcame that cruelty to have a happy life at our sanctuary. Ben came to us when only 6 months old and is now nearly age 14!

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Rescues of Last Resort

Above: Emma, who survived a broken back, in photo by Mark Edward Harris

Home for Life Featured in LENS Magazine!
Photojournalist's portraits of HFL sanctuary animals featured!

This fall, through a longtime supporter, we had the pleasure of meeting photographer Mark Edward Harris, who is based in Los Angeles, CA. Mark Edward Harris is an internationally renown photojournalist. On a recent media tour our supporter told him about Home For Life® and he wanted to visit. He is very interested in animal issues, and his book " People of the Forest", about orangutans, is not to be missed.

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Groundbreaking News!

Above: It's begun! Breaking ground for the long-hoped-for Dog Training and Exercise Building

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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.