Hope For Life Rescue was founded in February of 2002 after seven years of prayer.

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Before becoming an official rescue, the founder, Pauline Cushman, spent many years helping animals on her own, learning where help was needed the most. During that time, she attended meetings with other rescue organizations to better understand how they operated and how what she was building could serve the animals being overlooked.

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As she searched for the right name for her rescue, many variations came to mind, including Hope For Life Animal Rescue. In the end, she chose to leave the word animal out intentionally. The work, she believed, would always be about saving the animals, but it would also grow into a broader ministry; one that touched people along the way, volunteers, adopters, fosters, and those who found hope again through the act of helping.

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Hope For Life Rescue was never meant to be just a rescue. It was meant to be a reminder that compassion changes lives, often in more ways than one.