St. Francis Animal Rescue (SFAAR) is an all volunteer, nonprofit organization dedicated to rescuing and rehabilitating homeless and abused dogs and cats throughout the community. All of the animals we rescue are provided with necessary medical care, vaccinated, and spayed or neutered. Our animals are placed in foster care in our volunteers' private homes. We have an adoption day each Saturday where the public is able to meet our animals and potentially adopt them. We are a no-kill group unless extreme behavioral or medical issues are noted.

SFAAR was recently featured in an online promotional video thanks to some enterprising college students. Channing Nielsen, Kris Solhaug and Matt Pfaffendorf, of Augsburg College, Minneapolis, are grateful to SFAAR, PetSmart, and Chris Gegax at Signal Video Productions for enabling them to film their college project. The video shoot took place February 20^th at PetSmart Maplewood's adoption day.  Pfaffendorf is a cat foster parent himself so this is a subject close to his heart. "Our goal with the video was to try and raise awareness of pet fostering," Pfaffendorf said. "We enjoyed the opportunity to meet the dedicated volunteers from SFAAR and their foster animals." On a side note, Solhaug and Pfaffendorf were pleased to learn Nielsen is great with handling puppies!

Check out their video online at http://vimeo.com/10305498