‘Emotional Rescue LLC’ in Hastings Gets Bitter Funding Challenge This Holiday

Emotional Rescue in Hastings, Minnesota, is facing a tough challenge.

Recently, the rescue lost critical funding through Facebook Meta and subscriber support. Those funds helped cover ongoing medical cases and allowed the rescue to say “yes” when another desperate call came in. Without that support, every decision becomes harder, and every emergency feels heavier.

What hasn’t changed is the need. Dogs are still suffering. Medical bills are still coming. Lives are still hanging in the balance.

WHO IS 'EMOTIONAL RESCUE LLC' IN HASTINGS, MINNESOTA?

Founded by Shannon Tarr, Emotional Rescue, LLC, has always operated with urgency...because for the dogs they help, urgency is reality. Shannon told me, 'Luckily, we've never used a donation button on Facebook, or those funds would be lost too. I spent hundreds of hours waiting on hold with chat support and scheduled calls that never came.'

These are not easy cases. These are dogs who arrive broken in ways you can see and ways you can’t. Medical care starts immediately to mend bodies ravaged by neglect, starvation, parasites, disease, and injury. And yes...It's caused by humans...and humans need to make it right.

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FOSTER BASED RESCUE RUN ENTIRELY BY VOLUNTEERS

But just as important is the gentle, patient work of repairing trust. Teaching a dog that hands don’t always hurt. That food will come again. That sleeping peacefully is allowed.

Emotional Rescue is a foster-based rescue run entirely by volunteers. There is no building. No paid staff. No overhead costs siphoning away donations. Every dollar goes straight to the dogs for their needs, including: medical treatment, emergency surgeries, medications, food, supplies, and recovery care.

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Much of their work focuses on dogs living on reservations in North Dakota and South Dakota. They also step in for shelter dogs facing euthanasia simply because they were never socialized or shown love.

The list of dogs they help is heartbreaking: dogs who have been shot, dogs suffering from advanced heartworm and parasites, dogs with broken bones, dogs slowly starving, discarded breeder dogs no longer considered “useful,” senior dogs abandoned after losing their families, and animals pulled from legal neglect and abuse cases. These are dogs who would not survive without intervention.

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YOU CAN SEE THEY ARE FILLED WITH JOY AND HAPPINESS

When you watch these dogs playing outside, you can see how happy they are. They run, they play. They feel love, and they're happy.

THERE IS A WAY YOU CAN HELP UNTIL THIS GETS FIXED

Emotional Rescue is a for-profit Limited Liability Company, which means donations are not tax-deductible. But every single contribution goes directly to helping dogs who have nowhere else to turn.

WHAT EMOTIONAL RESCUE LLC PROMISES

This rescue has never promised easy stories or quick fixes. What it promises is compassion, dignity, and a fighting chance, even when the odds are stacked impossibly high.

WAYS TO SUPPORT EMOTIONAL RESCUE LLC 

To support this shelter, you can visit their website. You can also click HERE to contribute through Venmo. They offer various donation options, listing their needs and a Christmas wish list.

Go to https://emotionalrescuedogs.org/donate.