Almost Home Foster 

& Rescue of MN

Dianne Snater
Founder/Owner
Almost Home Foster & Rescue

A 501c3 Not for Profit Organization

EIN #83-2127146
507.219.1751

Our Success

From “Not Good Enough” to the PERFECT Family Furbaby Addition…Presley Goes Home!

Presley came to rescue, to Almost Home Foster & Rescue by way of a breeder release.  This gorgeous, beautifully coated dog “was too big.”  At 12.2#, she was too big to throw “toy” poodles, “I can’t use her.” UGH! My head spins, my stomach churns and I am disgusted.  However, it is the best thing […]

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Punkin Surprises Her New Momma as a Birthday Gift, But Punkin Receives the Greatest Gift, Her Furever Family

  Early this Spring, Almost Home Foster & Rescue was asked to help a local family.  Their resident puppers had reached the age of breeding and due to one partner unable to work due to extensive medical surgeries and being laid up, the money to spay and neuter the dogs was not financially attainable.  The

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Thrown Out Like Trash with Medical Issues, Skyler Rebounds and is Living Life to Its Fullest

  Little Skyler, our foster from Oklahoma is out of the hospital and back home recovering. Skyler, as was witnessed, was thrown from a vehicle in Seminole County Oklahoma.  The passerby picked her up and surrendered her to the Seminole humane society.  However, Skyler had a ruptured mammary tumor and was immediately taken to the

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Noija/Nola, a Little 5.5# Firecracker Explodes into Her New Home and is Quick to Call it Home

    In early March of this year, AHFK Foster Momma Donna Williams contacted us and asked if we had room for a little, 5.5# Yorkie mix; a Morkie, if you will.  If we didn’t at this time, Donna offered to foster until we had an opening.  Noija, as she was called, was a picky

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Last, But Not Least, Little Susie Gets Her Furever Home and Family!

Early in February, 6 Chihuahua/Terrier mix puppies made their way to Almost Home Foster & Rescue in Minnesota from Oklahoma.  Foster Momma Regan, answered a “free to a good home, need gone asap” ad on Craigslist.  She asked all the right questions, “Is she vaccinated? Is she spayed? Does she have any health issues?”  “Yes,

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Swing #3 and….Touch ’em All Cody, You Hit this One Out of the Park!

  Cody’s story is one of abuse, heartbreaking decisions, not once, but twice, relocation and do-overs.  Cody’s life wasn’t always filled with uncertainty, but it sure started early in his life – at the ripe ole’ age of 6 months.   Cody’s origin began in Eastern KY.  His momma worked and saved to buy Cody

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Rusty’s Flight or Fight Mode Quickly Diminished Once He Found the Comfort of His Momma’s Arms

    When Dave and I began Almost Home Foster & Rescue, we had stated that  we would always try to help those furbabies that were “located in our own backyard.”  We had been tagging, pulling, and saving so many dogs from the Southern states, “trying to save them all,”  a feat that we quickly

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Walter Explodes, Just Like His Funky-Do, into the Hearts and Lives of His Furever Home and Family

    When Dave and I began Almost Home Foster & Rescue, we had stated that  we would always try to help those furbabies that were “located in our own backyard.”  We had been tagging, pulling, and saving so many dogs from the Southern states, “trying to save them all,”  a feat that we quickly

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Once Discarded Like Trash, Pepper is Now Queen of Her Home, and Loved and Treasured by Her Family

AHFK Foster Momma Felicia Stilley of Wewoka OK is the female version of Saint Francis of Assisi, the Patron Saint of Animal Advocacy.  Felicia makes the daily rounds of the local shelters and pounds in her area, much like Florence Nightingale of the sick and wounded.  She is diligent in pulling those surrendered, abused, forgotten

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Queen Cavalier Cora Finds the Perfect Furever Home and Family…It’s a Cavalier Affair!

Cora is a 4-Year-Old, F1 Cavapoo who was recently released from breeding.  Recently, as on Friday morning I picked up this beautiful King Cavalier Spaniel.  She has the most beautiful eyes that beg the nearest human to, “Just pet me.  Please just hold me, love me.”  She is truly a Velcro-pupper and we needed a

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