Murphy's Law Rescue - Arizona

06/23/2026

This is Xena. She was part of the prison training program for service dogs. The actual service dog work she was able to complete without issue. Unfortunately, she gets very agitated in public at anything that startles her. People coming to her, other dogs nearby, or loud noises may set off her barking.

She has a really quirky habit of opening her mouth as if in a smile and chattering her teeth. Seems to be her way of conversing with us.

She does fine with Cats and is in a house with several. If the cats get loud or too close to her food , she will take her nose and push them away, but she has absolutely no issues with Cats.

She has a small foster dog sibling at her foster home and has been with several other foster dogs in foster homes. She has no problem with any of them. When her current foster sibling, grumps and growls at her she does not react at all.

She has also done well with her fosters chickens. The chickens often like to follow her in the yard. When table scraps are put out for them, she will join the chickens and they eat together. She has been known to walk them into their run so her foster will shut them in and she can freely zoom around the yard.

After she got used to the sounds of the backyard
They no longer barked at things that surprised her. As they became familiar to her. If something new happens, she will, of course, bark and alert.

She has been walking pretty well on a leash, but again if she meets anything that she was not prepared for she may start barking. She does better with each walk, but this was an area where she flunked out out of her service dog training program.

She kennels easily and even seems to enjoy it as her place. She does like to sleep in the bed with her humans and lays quietly in the middle of the foot bed. She loves human attention and seeks it.

She does not go outside often because she enjoys the climate control of the house. She will get her zoomies out or potty break and then go to the door where she will use her nose to tap it and let you know she was ready to go back.

We think that she would do best in a home that she can spend most of her time in her house or her own fence yard. She’s probably not going to end up being a hiking buddy or in general going out and about in areas where she will meet people or other animals that will startle her. She will make a wonderful loving companion for someone who is home most of the time and once a sweet girl with them.

06/22/2026

Dottie is a gorgeous tuxedo. She had a home with her sister, but unfortunately, her sister was beating her up.

She is extremely loving. We think she might do best as an only cat, but could possibly do well with a cat that is very submissive or a cat friendly dog. She completely ignores the dog at her fosters house.

Her date of birth is 4/8/22 so she is four years old now she is adoptable and will be one of the cats. She will be at our event at CAL Ranch on 22nd St in Tucson Saturday June 27 from 10-3.

06/02/2026

06/02/2026

Meet Calamity Jane

We were asked at the beginning of April if we might be able to help with a situation where too many dogs were present in a home and needed help. Calamity Jane came out of this situation under socialized, very scared and we were to find pregnant. The vet has estimated her to be about one year old now.

Dogs and cats in our care are spayed or neutered before they leave. Calamity is an example of why we are so firm on this. I am sure she was wanted, but when you do not get animals spayed/neutered promptly, you end up with unplanned pregnancies. Then you have more that need to be spayed or neutered and if you again don’t do that, more litters. It’s very easy for someone with good intentions and much love for the initial dog to find themselves overwhelmed and buried in kittens or puppies. They cannot afford to spay or neuter them and quickly are not n over their heads.

PLEASE SPAY OR NEUTER !!!! As young as possible! Rescues are overwhelmed and heartbroken over situations presented to us.

Calamity was quite underweight initially and so as she filled in weight to begin with we thought it was just her body leveling out to normal eating. We soon realized Calamity was most likely pregnant. Memorial Day our Vet confirmed she was pregnant with 5 puppies.

Today, June 1, sweet young Calamity began laboring. A week as the Vet expected.

1. Female- Annie Oakley
2. Male - Wild Bill Hickok
3. Female stillborn
4. Female- Belle Starr
5. Female stillborn with birth defects

Calamity we think just doesn’t know what she should do or her puppies. Today we are bottle feeding them and they are taking very well. Calamity is getting back to where she was before the birth. I think she was just sent back to that state where she was scared of everything.

Send out prayers and well wishes for our little Wild West group.

02/22/2026

Very busy day... So we forgot to take pictures.

Thank you C-A-L Ranch Stores Sierra Vista for sponsoring us.

We had a total for 3 cat adoptions, 7 rat adoptions, two rats transferred to RAV (thank you so much ) and 9 rats transferred to another foster.

What a wonderful, wonderful day for everything.

Happy tails to Saint, Waffles and Carebear. You all found amazing homes!

02/18/2026

Today was a deep clean on the cages and the littles are big enough to separate boys from girls.

Everyone got some streamed broccoli and cauliflower as well as cucumber and carrots. Hopefully this will serve as worthy penance for my bothersome removal of their nests and odors! They also reach have their daily baby food (today is banana strawberry yogurt) and their mix of seeds and larvae.

All the babies are looking for homes! Big girl is "with child" and to be going back to her owner once we get her babies weaned.... I will be keeping at least 5 and the rest will then be looking for homes as well.

02/11/2026

Aww... RATS!

That's right, we have sweet little rats of all ages up for adoption!

Adoption fee per rat is $15, $20 for a pair and $30 for a trio...

If you don't already have a pet rat we would only adopt out a pair minimum as they are pack animals and need to have a companion.

Come on down this Saturday to the OK Feed & Supply and pick out your new pet we will also have our adoptable cats and kittens there as well!

01/08/2026

2025 is officially behind us and 2026 is ahead of us with opportunities and hope.

We want to take a moment to thank our top fosters, volunteers and donors.

Deborah Larson, Susan (no profile sorry), Amy Moreno, Raven Ewing -- without your generous donations we would not have been able to get through our year financially. The babies that benefitted from your kindness and compassion would thank you if they could...

Carla and Dave Luallin, Susan Luft Flis (and her wonderful husband Lou), Lauri Raine and April Gladysh have been absolutely pivotal in being there to foster all these sweethearts that find themselves in need of a safe place to land. Without you opening your homes and hearts there is no telling what their fates may have been. Your time, energy and sometimes tears along with your generous financial investments made a literal life or death difference to the animals and meant more to us than you can ever know.

With all the above we were able to take in 70 cats and 9 dogs in 2025 and that resulted in 66 adoptions with 19 pets currently in our care.

From the whole of our hearts, David and I thank you and value you more than words could ever convey.

12/02/2025

The kittens and pups have all been so sweet this year that SANTA and Mrs. CLAUS have come to spend the month with them!!!!!

Bring your kiddos, bring your pets all for wonderful photos with Santa! A portion of the proceeds are being donated to directly benefit our current babies. And hopefully help us lift our intake freeze and we scootch into 2026!

December 6th at the Tractor Supply in Vail!

December 13th at the OK Feed and Supply in Tucson

December 14th at the CAL Ranch mm in Sierra Vista

And last chance will be at the

CAL Ranch on 22nd St. In Tucson!!!!

Please come out and support the rescue while getting into the Christmas (or Yule) spirit.