Old Souls Animal Rescue and Retirement Home

01/21/2025

Who is the cutest little doggo ever!!! Yup, it's Cole!!!

To donate to Cole's care:
https://givebutter.com/oldsoulsfeelgoodfund

01/21/2025

Our super sweet boy Teddy Swims went to foster yesterday with long time Old Souls supporters Beth and Rodney! Lucky for us, their two dogs are frequent campers at Camp Old Souls so we will see Teddy soon for petsitting! Congratulations on hitting the jackpot of foster homes Teddy Swims!!!

01/21/2025

We all hope that you have had an amazing day!! Thank you for your support!!! Time for mimis!! Goodnight! We love you!!

Volunteer Registration
https://forms.gle/m3QL1Q9FRGBeYpNf8

Donate:
https://givebutter.com/oldsoulsfeelgoodfund

01/19/2025

UPDATE ON RuthE!!! The eye is looking better!! However RuthE wants her fans to know that there is no 5 star service here and she deserves better!! Lol!!

RuthE is available for foster/adoption.

To donate to RuthE's care or food fund, click the link here: https://givebutter.com/oldsoulsfeelgoodfund

01/19/2025

There’s a splash of sunshine in our volunteer photo today because it was such an amazing day!!! Every Saturday gets better and better as our experienced volunteers and board members onboard new volunteers! The Old Souls hacienda is unrecognizable after a deep clean and hanging artwork. The tortoises were soaked and fed, the chicken coop got cleaned, the cat room got a good scrubbing, and holy moly you should see how incredible it looks outside with the landscaping done and all the supplies put away.

We are incredibly grateful for all the help and support from the amazing Old Souls Volunteer Team. If you would like to become a volunteer, please register at www.oldsouls.org/volunteer and we will see you soon!

01/17/2025

Hey Old Souls Volunteer Team!

What are you doing tomorrow, Saturday, Jan 18th, 8-11am???? You are volunteering at Old Souls, of course!!!! The weather has been a bit chilly in the morning, but nothing gets the blood pumping like walking the perimeter fence around 1.5 acres to see where our livestock guardian dogs keep escaping! We need to immediately identify the escape route and do whatever it takes to secure the fence so those two knuckleheads will protect the Old Souls animals from predators, instead of running around the neighborhood checking in on the neighbors!

We also have some other outdoor projects that we need help with so bring your work gloves, boots, water bottle, and your positive attitude and let's get things done for the Old Souls animals! You don't need to stay for the entire 3 hours - we are happy to have you for whatever time you can be here.

Here are the tasks we hope to accomplish tomorrow aside from the standard Saturday tasks:
- Dog nail trims
- Remove parasitic mistletoe to save the native trees
- Move the remaining aged cow manure from the storage area to the back side of the goat enclosure to support the fence
- Remove the chain link around the aged cow manure area so we can make it a tool storage area
- Organize the tortoise room closet so we can find what we need!
- Soak and feed the sick tortoises that are not hibernating
- Steam mop the floors
- Clear all items from front porch and store them in the shed at the other Old Souls property 10 minutes away (the shed over there may need to be emptied too)
- Hang "Old Souls" and address signs on Ranchettes to better direct volunteers and donors to the right location
- Chop veggies for animals (If you are able to, please pick up a veggie box on your way here. Borderlands POWWOW Produce On Wheels WithOut Waste is $15 for up to 70 pounds and MOM Market On the Move is $10 for a box - please do not bring veggies they hold aside specifically for animals bc it is usually moldy and rotten, and Old Souls animals are too fragile for that.)

Of course we will end volunteer time with dog and cat cuddle time in hopes you may want to foster or adopt. Remember that for every animal you foster or adopt, we can save another life at PACC by pulling them into Old Souls.

12260 W Ranchettes Dr, Tucson, AZ 85743
No matter what your GPS says, don't turn off of Ranchettes until you see the Old Souls sign at the end of the driveway. Let yourself in the gate, and make sure the free ranging animals don't get out. Park anywhere that you are not blocking other vehicles. Walk under the carport and find me or a volunteer either out back or in the kitchen to ask for or request a specific assignment.

If it's your first time at Old Souls, we will give you an orientation, a tour and a rundown of the guidelines, which are also attached here. If you want to bring friends to volunteer with you or you have not yet registered yourself, register at www.oldsouls.org/volunteer. Note that every person must complete their own volunteer registration form because there is a waiver that every person must sign.

All volunteers need to log their hours! Click the link below to register as an Old Souls Volunteer on Voluntime (the link expires in 5 days). Then every time you volunteer, log your hours, I will approve them, and we will be able to keep track of the actual amount of time volunteers spend at Old Souls and on Old Souls tasks off the property. This matters because when we apply for grants, the number of volunteer hours is often a criteria for whether we will get the grant or not. So please log your hours because it can make a big difference in the grants we receive!

Volunteer Registration
https://forms.gle/m3QL1Q9FRGBeYpNf8

Speaking of tasks that are done off of the Old Souls property, if you are able to do admin tasks for us, like hand writing thank you notes, updating the website, etc., please let me know! We could really use your help.

If you would like to bring snacks for the livestock so you can feed them when you volunteer, the approved food list is attached. The approved food list for the humans at Old Souls is much shorter - anything vegetarian!

If you are not able to volunteer in person, please help us by sharing our social media posts - we need to get animals adopted out so many others that are currently in need can come to Old Souls. Our waitlist for urgent placement is very long! We can also always use donations. You can donate in many ways at www.oldsouls.org/donate or you can donate directly at www.givebutter.com/oldsoulsfeelgoodfund.

Some of the items that we need most right now are:
- Any kind of canned senior dog and cat food (pate only, desperately need these)
- Bales of Bermuda hay
- Costco brand senior dog kibble
- Wifi battery operated cameras for inside (4) and outside (6) so we can monitor the animals all over the property and inside the Hacienda
- P*e pads

Some of the services that we need most right now are:
- Plumber to add spigots and fix leaks
- Handyperson to add a door or gate to the existing dog yard fence
- Electrician to add outlets inside and outside
- Veterinarian to provide low cost dentals, bloodwork, vaccines, and in-home euthanasia

Animals that need a foster or forever home:

- Goat T'uuwa and her daughters N'dari and Akinyi, and their aunties Safa and Esme (all mycoplasma exposed, Esme confirmed positive)
- Dogs Dori (diabetic), Gibbs (wheelchair), Zuzu (heart failure hospice), Rafiki
- Cats Whiskers (human mom died), Sal (kidney failure hospice), RuthE (kidney failure hospice and recent eye surgery)
- Tortoises Rosie (Russian), Despina (desert)
- Pigs Yara and Myla together (house pigs), and Penelope and Lloyd together
- 3 turkeys

We hope to see all of you bright and early tomorrow morning!

Dr. Paula
Founder and Pack Leader
Old Souls Animal Rescue and Retirement Home
Tucson, AZ
520-334-5966

01/16/2025

Teddy Swims is not excited about being at the vet today. Weight, 7.4 pounds. Heart murmur, 4/6. Arthritis, yes. UTI, maybe. Teeth, 3 remaining. Cute factor, very high!

01/15/2025

In honor of our favorite Golden girl Betty White, who loved dogs, cats and all animals, please donate and help to celebrate her birthday and her life!

Thank you to everyone who has chosen to participate in the by supporting animal shelters and welfare services like Old Souls Animal Rescue and Retirement Home. This viral challenge is in honor of her birthday on Jan.17, 2025. We hope you will join us in honoring Betty White’s memory to make the world a kinder and more compassionate place for all animals.

Give to Old Souls Animal Rescue and Retirement Home:
https://givebutter.com/oldsoulsfeelgoodfund

Old Souls Animal Rescue is a 501(c)(3) non-profit rescue founded to give geriatric, special needs, and hospice animal peace and love in their final days.

01/14/2025

Who wants to transport a goat??!! We are accepting an emergency intake into the rescue and need urgent transport from the northeast area outside Phoenix!

This geriatric female goat needs to go from Fort McDowell to Tucson by Saturday! The owner was in an accident and can no longer take care of her. And this sweet goat lives alone so she really needs to join a herd. We have a foster home already lined up!

Please call if you are able to transport even part of the way 520-334-5966! She is big so you will need a van or a small enclosed trailer. Please share this post so we can try to arrange transport as quickly as possible.

01/14/2025

Thank you SO MUCH to the amazing volunteers that showed up on Saturday!! The yard is almost completely cleared of debris!! So much cleaning inside and out got completed!! We could do nothing without you!

Volunteer Registration
https://forms.gle/m3QL1Q9FRGBeYpNf8

01/11/2025

Old Souls Cows on the Mooo-ve!!!

🚨 Help Us Transport Lou and Charla to Their New Sanctuary! 🚨

Lou and Charla are excited to be heading to a new home in Georgia! You are probably wondering why since they are very popular residents at Old Souls. Well here's the scoop ...

Old Souls started out as a dog rescue ... remember when we were called Old Souls K9 Rescue and Retirement Home back in 2010??? In 2015, Old Souls moved to Yuma, Arizona and that's where the fun with farm animals began. Our Yuma community was and STILL IS amazing! They supported us in growing exponentially in the five years we were there, allowing us to add geriatric, special needs, and hospice pigs, goats, chickens, cats, and tortoises to our rescue.

We love caring for all of these animals, but during our last vet visit for the cows, we realized that we are not providing them with the best possible life, and that weighs on us. Yes, they get vet care, they get their hooves trimmed, and they get the best hay we can buy. But their enclosure is not big enough, they do not get the enrichment they deserve to play and be happy, and they do not have access to other bovines and animals. Lou misses his life when he was housed with chickens, pigs, goats, and tortoises, but that is just not feasible on our current property.

As a result, we have made the difficult decision to transfer them to another sanctuary where they will have many acres to roam and lots of other bovines to befriend! They are going to M&B Farm and Hatchery in Hortense, Georgia! Owners Michael and Becky have agreed to take them in and let them live out their lives on their nonprofit farm.

We need your help to transport the cows from AZ to GA: We have contracted Gilfrey Horse and Cattle Transport to safely bring these big babies across the country around Feb 11. Gilfry drivers will make sure our cows are safe and warm and have plenty to eat. We trust Gilfry because they transported all of our livestock from Yuma to Waco, and 18 months later from Waco back to Tucson, and all the animals arrived safe and happy.

You can help by 💵 donating toward transport costs to ensure the cows are safe. Any contribution, big or small, will go directly towards the transportation costs. Every dollar helps! 🔗 https://givebutter.com/eBdw3l

✨ We Need $5000 to cover the transportation fees for both cows, plus their travel feed and bedding, vet check, lab testing for brucellosis and TB, health certificates, and applying for and securing their USDA ID numbers. Your generosity can ensure that these cows have a safe, peaceful transition to their forever sanctuary.

Your donation matters because you’re helping to ensure that Lou and Charla get the best care during their long journey, and that they arrive at a sanctuary that prioritizes their care and happiness.
💖 Please donate today and share with your network!
Here is a link to the campaign and a QR code that also goes to the campaign.
https://givebutter.com/eBdw3l

Thank you for your kindness and support! 🙏🐄



Dr. Paula
Founder and Pack Leader
Old Souls Animal Rescue and Retirement Home
Tucson, AZ
520-334-5966

01/11/2025

So sweet! ❤️💕
RuthE has a nurse today!! Lil mama is right there to help her in her recovery!

Donate to her recovery and food fund:
https://givebutter.com/oldsoulsfeelgoodfund

Volunteer Registration
https://forms.gle/m3QL1Q9FRGBeYpNf8

01/10/2025

I have some devastating news to share. Our beautiful Gertrude left us for the Bridge at only 7 months old. She arrived at Old Souls just two months ago after her pet sitter found her unable to use her legs or sit upright, and the other chickens in the flock attacking her.

During her short life Gertrude managed to check off many items on her bucket list, including a girls brunch at Cafe a la C’Art, a stroll through an art market where 2 Lula Belle gave her a handmade toy shaped like a bird, and she was my sidekick at Cholla Afterlife where she was a delight to the clients who were experiencing incredible sadness in losing their own pets.

I had hoped I would spend many years with this beautiful feathered girl, watching her nestle under the blankets on cold mornings, and drinking excitedly from her fresh water bowl like it was the best thing she ever tasted.

If you have never known the love of a chicken, you are really missing out. Gertrude was beautiful and perfect and I miss her terribly. Mama loves you baby girl. Rest peacefully.

To donate in her memory or to the other Souls still in our care: https://givebutter.com/oldsoulsfeelgoodfund

01/10/2025

Hey Old Souls Volunteer Team!

We have a great Volunteer Day planned for tomorrow, Sat Jan 11 8-11am! The weather is perfect for working outside so bring your work gloves, your boots, your water bottle, and your positive attitude and let's get things done for the Old Souls animals! You don't need to stay for the entire 3 hours - we are happy for whatever time you can be here.

Here are the tasks we hope to accomplish tomorrow aside from the standard Saturday tasks:
- Dog baths
- Dog nail trims
- Finish landscaping, including making and burning the burn piles
- Move the remaining aged cow manure from the storage area to the back side of the goat enclosure to support the fence
- Remove the chain link around the aged cow manure area so we can make it a tool storage area
- Organize the LR, tortoise room, and hall closet so we can find what we need!
- Clear all items from front porch and store them in the shed at the other Old Souls property 10 minutes away (that shed may need to be emptied too)
- Hang "Old Souls" and address signs on Ranchettes to better direct volunteers and donors to the right location
- Chop veggies for animals (Volunteer Kat will be bringing a produce haul from Borderlands!)

Of course we will end with dog and cat cuddle time!

12260 W Ranchettes Dr, Tucson, AZ 85743
No matter what your GPS says, don't turn off of Ranchettes until you see the Old Souls sign at the end of the driveway. Let yourself in the gate, and make sure the free ranging animals don't get out. Park anywhere that you are not blocking other vehicles. Walk under the carport and find me or a volunteer either out back or in the kitchen to ask for or request a specific assignment.

If it's your first time at Old Souls, we will give you an orientation, a tour and a rundown of the guidelines, which are also attached here. If you want to bring friends to volunteer with you, have them register at www.oldsouls.org/volunteer. Note that every person must complete their own volunteer registration form because there is a waiver that every person must sign.

All volunteers need to log their hours! Click the link below to register as an Old Souls Volunteer on Voluntime (the link expires in 5 days). Then every time you volunteer, log your hours, I will approve them, and we will be able to keep track of the actual amount of time volunteers spend at Old Souls and on Old Souls tasks off the property. This matters because when we apply for grants, the number of volunteer hours is often a criteria for whether we will get the grant or not. So please log your hours because it can make a big difference in the grants we receive!

Voluntime Registration
https://voluntime.org/j/tm1sRm6QRk2vc7vNPlfRBU9bDaRdC4bDObN-smteP4lnJWlNM6Osfl9BBE4qzfQM

Speaking of tasks that are done off of the Old Souls property, if you are able to do admin tasks for us, like hand writing thank you notes, updating the website, etc., please let me know! We could really use your help.

If you would like to bring snacks for the livestock so you can feed them when you volunteer, the approved food list is attached. The approved food list for the humans at Old Souls is much shorter - cookies, donuts, coffee, and any kind of fruit, but we also don't complain about any other food not on the list that is brought for humans!

If you are not able to volunteer in person, please help us by sharing our social media posts - we need to get animals adopted out so many others that are currently in need can come to Old Souls. Our waitlist for urgent placement is very long! We can also always use donations. You can donate in many ways at www.oldsouls.org/donate or you can donate directly at www.givebutter.com/oldsoulsfeelgoodfund

We hope to see all of you tomorrow morning!

Dr. Paula
Founder and Pack Leader
Old Souls Animal Rescue and Retirement Home
Tucson, AZ
520-334-5966

Volunteer at Old Souls to help geriatric, special needs, and hospice animals in Tucson, Arizona.

01/10/2025

RuthE is continuing to recover in her favorite place in the living room. She told me to thank all of her fans for their prayers and generous gifts! 😍😎🤩