Many visitors who walk through our gates are captivated by one or several of the Wolves of Speedwell. Perhaps none captured the hearts of our visitors more than our beloved Thor. At 19 years of age Thor has gone on to be with his family and life-long companion Lucky. Our hearts wept at the loss […]
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We share our hearts and souls with those we love and when they leave a part of us goes with them. So it is with our sweet Rogue. His easy, loving friendship will linger with us always. For now we grieve at the loss of our gentle giant with the biggest kind and loving heart. […]
The whole world is upside down right now. Each day there is a reminder of the hardships and new burdens set upon us. With nerves already frayed, a loss of family has a particularly keen sting, as if a piece of your soul has been stripped violently from you. On Wednesday June 17, our hearts […]
Over 40 years ago the sanctuary began. One man and one woman welcomed wolves into their hearts. Over the years the sanctuary has grown and a team now stands ready to offer sanctuary to many. We flow like water to and fro. Lives come and lives move on to the next plain. This flow never […]
Dark days indeed. On March 18, our hearts were shattered as a life that had just begun to blossom was gone from us too soon. Sweetie, our dear young Sweetie, passed away after a battle with seizures that was brief yet also terribly long. Sweetie came to us at just a few months old. She […]
Spring moves swiftly into summer. The days grow longer and the sun beats warmer each afternoon. Though the sun may shine, our hearts are heavy as we say farewell to one of our own. On Friday May 31, 2019 we lost a true alpha and a graceful soul – Trinity, alpha female of the Big […]
Our hearts grew heavy at the realization that what we knew was to come was now very much here. As the weight bore down on those by his side the clear cold sky promised the first snow would come this eve, befitting a proper farewell to a spirited and lively member of the Speedwell family. […]
Our hearts shatter as we say farewell to an elegant and beautiful member of the Speedwell family – our lovely Tala. Too soon to leave our side, Tala was only 5, yet we learned she passed from a genetic heart condition that would not have been treatable even had we known sooner. Though we grieve […]
It seems that sorrow is not yet beyond us this year as grief cuts ever deeper into our hearts. Tioga, the last member of our prodigious timberwolf family, passed on to be with his family on the morning of July 2, 2017. Tioga was raised at the sanctuary from a puppy and he and his […]
Words cannot express our grief at the loss of another member of the Speedwell family. Our sweet and timid Princess passed away Spring 2017 as a result of a rapid onset of cancer, leaving us all too suddenly and too soon. Princess was with us for just over a year and a half, yet […]
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