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Silver White Winter Melts Into Spring: Late Winter Photos by Mark Luinenburg

We barely got photographer Mark Luinenburg out to Home for Life in time before the last of the Winter of 2021 was gone. It was such a beautiful warm day that the staff were in t-shirts and sweatshirts for the shoot!
Corporate Sponsorships leverage clout and community to help the most vulnerable animals!

Left: Curly running with Zena in the snow by Mark Luinenburg
How can you do well by doing good? Collaborate with Home for Life® Animal Sanctuary, an internationally recognized care-for-life sanctuary for cats and dogs! Your company's corporate sponsorship of Home for Life® will inspire, educate and mobilize people who love animals and are moved to help the most vulnerable cats and dogs. Touch the hearts of people who love animals and want to make a difference by rallying them to support your business while helping the animals at Home for Life®! Your support will help Home for Life® transform the direction of animal welfare by demonstrating what's possible and that the most powerful thing any of us can do to make a difference is to care!
Corporate Sponsorships leverage clout and community to help the most vulnerable animals! Thank you to HomeLight for their support!

How can you do well by doing good? Collaborate with Home for Life® Animal Sanctuary, an internationally recognized care-for-life sanctuary for cats and dogs! Your company's corporate sponsorship of Home for Life® will inspire, educate and mobilize people who love animals and are moved to help the most vulnerable cats and dogs. Touch the hearts of people who love animals and want to make a difference by rallying them to support your business while helping the animals at Home for Life®! Your support will help Home for Life® transform the direction of animal welfare by demonstrating what's possible and that the most powerful thing any of us can do to make a difference is to care!
Corporate Sponsorships leverage clout and community to help the most vulnerable animals! Thank you to Porch.com for their support!

How can you do well by doing good? Collaborate with Home for Life® Animal Sanctuary, an internationally recognized care-for-life sanctuary for cats and dogs! Your company's corporate sponsorship of Home for Life® will inspire, educate and mobilize people who love animals and are moved to help the most vulnerable cats and dogs. Touch the hearts of people who love animals and want to make a difference by rallying them to support your business while helping the animals at Home for Life®! Your support will help Home for Life® transform the direction of animal welfare by demonstrating what's possible and that the most powerful thing any of us can do to make a difference is to care!
Fire at Home for Life!!

Left: Sandy's townhouse engulfed in flames
Early Monday morning, February 8th, at about 1 am, Tammy, one of our overnight staff discovered "Sandy's Townhouse" was on fire. Thank God we have always had on-call night staff who monitor any sick animals overnight plus ensure the facility is secure; and thank goodness Tammy, who was on duty Sunday night, was on her toes. She smelled smoke and went to investigate the source, found smoke coming from Sandy's townhouse, and upon going inside saw that the wall was on fire. Tammy called Lisa, the Executive Director, and then both Tammy and Lisa called the fire department. Tammy located a fire extinguisher and got the three dogs out to safety, but the fire was beyond an extinguisher. Lisa also called one of our staff, Grace, who lives the closest to the sanctuary, and even though she had already worked a long day, she came in to help and support Tammy. Together they got the dogs moved so they were indoors and warm as it was well below zero.
Video: Paraplegic rescue dogs play in Minnesota snow

Access Hollywood called last week—our little video starring some of our paraplegic dogs in the snow will air this week all over the country! ABC News! NBC! Fox News! CBS! People Magazine! Yahoo News! Access Hollywood! From New York to Florida to California! (click here to view)
Last Album of the Year: So Long 2020

Though we have missed seeing our supporters for tours and visits at the sanctuary, 2020 hasn't been bad to Home for Life, and we are grateful to friends like Mark Luinenburg: Luinenburg Photography for helping us make it through this year to remember. Our staff and animals are healthy and well as the holidays approach, and we hope the same is true for you and your family during this season.
"It Matters Not what someone is born but what they grow to be"—The Heartwarming story of Home for Life's Matilda inspires holiday match challenge!

Dear Friends
If only we had known of Matilda’s years of loneliness at the end of a chain, outside in all weather, having one litter of puppies after another... we would have intervened long ago. How could a dog suffer such maltreatment and neglect just a few miles away from Home for Life® sanctuary, a beacon of caring and kindness to animals. But we didn’t know how Matilda suffered until one of our employees found her one day on the way to work. How many dogs and cats spend lives of quiet desperation without notice or help? Animal rescue organizations don’t have to travel far to find animals in need. Often the one who needs our attention and help the most is right nearby.
Give from the Heart to help the animals of Home for Life® on Give to the Max Day!

PLEASE REMEMBER Home for Life® Animal Sanctuary on Minnesota's largest day of giving -- Give to the Max November 19! We are a Minnesota non-profit based in Stillwater, MN with our facility located on 40 acres on the Apple River in Star Prairie, Wisconsin.
Home for Life® is small but mighty, and we know that a small sanctuary can make a big difference. For the nearly 200 animals that live at our sanctuary, Home For Life® is able to give its residents a quality life and not just a warehoused existence.
Home for Life Animal Sanctuary featured in Forbes Magazine!

Left: A scene from the Home for Life® sanctuary.
photos: Mark Luinenburg
author: Robin Raven, Contributor