Safe Hands Rescue

Safe Hands Rescue

We are a 501c3 non-profit foster based animal rescue organization based in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area.

This last week of the year is often make-or-break for the animals who are running out of time. In overcrowded, high-intake shelters, pups and cats who are sick, injured, or simply out of space may not live to see the new year unless someone steps in. Your year-end gift to Safe Hands Animal Rescue powers the urgent medical care, stabilization, foster placement, and transport that turns “last chance” into “new beginning.

Safe Hands is a foster-based rescue that focuses on the companion animals with the greatest physical and emotional needs—those who are starving, injured, sick, parasite-afflicted, very young, or simply overlooked. We partner with shelters and communities that have limited animal welfare resources, bringing not just immediate rescue but also low-cost spay/neuter, training, and support that help reduce intake and euthanasia long-term. When you give, you’re not only saving one animal at a time—you’re helping change what’s possible for entire communities.

The problem we’re facing right now

Every year, Safe Hands spends roughly half a million dollars on animal health needs alone—critical surgeries, diagnostics, medications, and ongoing care that many of our animals simply wouldn’t get anywhere else. As we close out the year, those medical funds are stretched thin just as calls for help are rising. Without a strong finish by December 31, we have to say “no” more often to animals who need us most.

 The need isn’t only medical. Partner shelters in high-intake, high-euthanasia regions are full, and more animals are being surrendered or found as strays. Without enough capacity at Safe Hands and The Safe House, these dogs and cats have nowhere safe to land, no time for recovery, and no path to a loving home. Your gift fills that dangerous gap between “no options” and “Safe Hands will take them.”

 The solution you can power with your gift

Safe Hands has built a proven, hands-on model that combines immediate lifesaving—rescue, medical care, stabilization, foster placement, and transport—with community-level prevention. At the heart of this is The Safe House, our rescue and medical property in Kentucky where animals can receive urgent care, decompress, and prepare for transport to foster and adoptive homes. Year-end donations help seed and sustain Safe House operations right as we enter the busiest, most pressured months of the year.

When you donate before December 31, you’re restocking our medical fund so we can say “yes” to the next injured pup, the next heartworm-positive dog, the next litter of fragile kittens. You are directly underwriting transports that move animals from overcrowded, low-adoption shelters into communities where loving families are waiting. And you’re reinforcing the prevention work—like low-cost spay/neuter and shelter partnerships—that keeps future animals from ever landing on an euthanasia list.

Together we can give even more companion animals a better life, filled with kindness and compassion.

Donate today and change the life of an animal in need.