Obituaries

Jun 24, 2025

Our beloved Ruby passed away on June 24, 2025, leaving behind a home filled with love, laughter, and cherished memories. Though her time with us was far too short, she made an everlasting impact on everyone who knew her.

Ruby was a joyful and spirited companion who loved going on walks with her family and, in her younger days, would happily...

Jun 23, 2025

Jun 17, 2025

While her quiet and calm presence defined her, the mark she leaves on all of our hearts shines bright. Fifa, a pup of many names (Fifa Bifa, Feef, Margaret, Beef, or Princess to those closest to her), our most well-behaved child spent over 15 wonderful years gracing us with her love. Fifa was the star of the household, she was...

May 29, 2025

This marks the end of 16 wonderful, laughter filled years with the best dog a family could dream of having. Bandit was loyal, loving, compassionate, and we were lucky to have spent as much time with him as we did. Thank you for all your years of friendship and love. Bandit, we love you and will miss you forever.

May 12, 2025

Jordy lived life to the fullest.  He went to work every day, went on vacations to Northern MN, Northern WI, Florida and a host of other spots.  He especially liked parties when all his friends would come to visit.  He made even the toughest guys soften up.  His favorite hobbies were kayaking, boating, golfing with Dad and riding in the...

Apr 30, 2025

Daisy Lou Kubal passed away surrounded by family on April 30, 2025, at the Heartland Pet Hospital in Faribault. Common nicknames were “Sweeties” and “Doodahs.” Daisy was born October 16, 2014 at a rural community home by Princeton, MN. When we adopted her, she was the first puppy who approached me and stole my heart. I picked up a second...

Apr 16, 2025

Blondie was a special girl, as everyone’s dog is. We only had her 4 short years. She was 6-7 years old when we adopted her. Blondie was calm, cool, and collected, except for mice, voles, and rabbits. I’m sure she was a rabbit dog in her younger days. Every morning before our walk, she’d do a mice check in the...

Apr 11, 2025

Fridley, aka Fritter Critter, aka Fridley Didley, aka Fritter Fried, was a sassy cocker spaniel who was just as dedicated to his humans as he was to getting treats.

He brought his family joy, laughter, and the occasional panic when he ran into places like Walgreen's Drugstore or jumped into strange cars and watched as his human looked for him.

Fridley loved...

Apr 11, 2025

He was loved from the day he came into this world and made his presence known - he was a talker.  His puppy note that accompanied him home included how he enjoyed morning discussions with his dad.  He loved to tell his people whenever a perceived slight occurred or he was unfairly accused of something.  He'd come running in the...

Apr 3, 2025

Mya Hope Schuler

June 4, 2010 - April 3, 2025

Mya was born on June 4th, 2010 and joined our family on August 13th, 2010. From the day we picked her up in southeastern Iowa, traveling home in a thunder storm, we could see how mellow her personality was. For the entire 15 years of her life, she remained the calm in...

Apr 1, 2025

The day I walked into the sanctuary, Dr. Pepper greeted me almost instantly; and even though I didn't know it at the moment, he had already chosen his forever home. He followed me everywhere in the sanctuary, slowly stealing bits of my heart. Visiting hours ended and something just felt missing as I headed home. A few days later, I...

Mar 14, 2025

Jersey joined our family on March 24, 2011 after we spent countless hours in the car traveling the state of Minnesota looking for the perfect Boston Terrier. She instantly had a new big brother and sister who were Labrador Retrievers and we were constantly worried about making sure she wouldn’t get trampled or played with too hard as she was...

Feb 21, 2025

Patrick was born on July 29th, 2014. Eight weeks later he came bouncing into my life. The first night in his crate, not even a whimper. He was off to a new adventure and never looked back. And that was his attitude for the next ten years. He looked at every day as the best day of his life. He...

Feb 3, 2025

Spike Lee Herschman passed away peacefully surrounded by is loving parents and sister Nala at his home on Monday, February 3, 2024. 

Spike was such a gentle, kind, and loving dog. He would always greet you when you walked in the door with one of his many toys in his mouth that he would want to show you that he was...

Jan 24, 2025

On January 24, 2025, Rogue, a smart, scrappy and very stubborn little 13 year old Chihuahua-Poodle mix, told us she was tired of resisting her chronic heart failure that she successfully had been living with for over 2 years, and so she passed on peacefully. She was adopted as a puppy in Arizona where she lived happily with her human...

Jan 23, 2025

“Mojo was a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, a breed known for their loyalty, affection and their gentleness with children. Mojo was adopted by my husband and I in April of 2013 at the Faribault Humane Society. He was only 3 years old. At this time, my husband and I were just a couple of 19 year olds in a brand new relationship...

Jan 20, 2025

Gary enjoyed snuggling with his humans any chance he got.  He snatched any and all table food especially marshmallows, flamin hot cheetos, donuts and McDonald's french fries.  Gary was given many nicknames based mostly off the food he would steal including Gar-bear french fry, Smelly cat, Fat cat, Chester, and Stinky man.

Jan 14, 2025

I adopted Chuck from the Northfield Humane Society.  He was the best cat I ever had.  Whenever he needed something he would let me know by meowing.  Chuck was a vocal cat.  He brought me lots of joy and laughter with his unique personality.  Chuck enjoyed sleeping on top of my head while relaxing in the recliner. Please adopt cats!

Jan 7, 2025

Waldo was a 10-month old rescue dog when I got him from Basset Buddies. He was an adorable puppy that grew up to be 74 pounds, even though I always considered him to be my 'baby boy'. He loved going on walks, meeting people as well as other dogs, McDonald cheeseburgers (no pickle), chasing squirrels from our bird feeder and...

Dec 23, 2024

Derby was born December 14th, 2017 on a small farm in Derby, IA. A Great Pyrenees/Anatolian Shepherd cross, known as livestock guardian dog, he had a natural instinct to guard animals. He moved to Faribault in March 2018 where he would become top dog at Graise Farm guarding chickens, ducks, guineas, geese, and goats. He befriended everyone that visited the...