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. No one who meets one of our animals through our outreach programs can ever again dismiss them as unworthy of life just because they were not be able to be adopted or stay in the home they had.
Soul Creatures, a collaboration of Emergence Productions, Home for Life, and Twin Cities
Public Television. Premieres August 2014.
Home for Life's ambassador animals will gain a wider audience this summer when a feature called Soul Creatures will air on Twin Cities Public Television-Minnesota Channel, later this summer. Premiering this August, 2014, the production follows many of Home for Life's therapy animals like Harlequin Great Dane Dodi, who has epilepsy. Many times the work of our therapy animals and volunteers is unseen & unheralded: for example last week, The University of Minnesota's Amplatz Hospital requested pet therapy support from Home for Life on behalf of a pediatric patient, a young girl who was very frightened about receiving an infusion treatment for a serious disease. Having Dodi & her handler, HFL volunteer Deb, there, calmed and soothed the child to make the outcome of her treatment as successful as possible. Soul Creatures documents the unselfish contribution of Home for Life's volunteers, who share their love of animals with vulnerable people of our community like this child, in partnership with Home for Life and our special animals.