Soul 2 Soul Animal Rescue And Sanctuary

03/25/2025

Maniac Monday‼️

We had our beautiful hospice girl, Babee, in for a her yearly exam and updated her shots.

Then we had a cat (a Manx mix that is not currently available) in for severe allergies and some congestion that we wanted to make sure she got treated for before it became something more serious plus she needed a rabies (3 shots for this poor girl).

Our other girl, Boo (pictured below) went in to see if her new insulin was working correctly but unfortunately she has lost more weight and has been not acting normal so she is getting a “medical staycation” at our vets office while we try to figure out what is going on and what she needs.
Her blood panel looks great, but other things aren’t adding up 😩

We don’t know how much this emergency ‘vacation’ of hers is going to cost us, but we do need donations for this little girl 🫣

You can donate for Boo by:
Calling our vet directly at: 541-672-1621 (Parkway Animal Hospital);
PayPal: [email protected]
Venmo: Soul2SoulAR
Zelle: 541-670-2117
OR hit the button below ⬇️

03/24/2025

We are still needing a foster home for this guy!

Please reach out if you are able to assist !

03/24/2025

We need to still get Tiny Tina, Arlo and Otter their needed surgeries but we need to pay this one off first!
Please share so we can raise needed donations and continue our work!

An infected growth, and bad teeth. Little Madea is a little mess. And her story is a little messy too! She was taken out of a hoarding situation in rural Oregon. The details aren’t really kn…

03/24/2025

We want to thank everyone who came out today for our first Volunteer meeting!
Thank you to the Roseburg Round Table for the great pizza and service!

We have a lot of things we got to today but still have so much more to go!
We will announce our next meeting soon!

With all of these wonderful community members wanting to help animals and help our rescue to be successful for these deserving creatures, we are so excited for our future and how we can serve animals and our community!

03/23/2025

Notification for future event!

With the weather change coming soon many of you may be getting ready to do some cleaning out of closets, garages or storages, if you’re looking for somewhere to donate, we will start accepting donations as of April 19 for our annual Rescue rummage sale!

This year our annual Rescue rummage sale will be May 2nd, 3rd & 4th!🐾

03/22/2025

***Update: Sorry it looks like this boy will not be coming to our rescue after all. Thank you everyone for your interest. It definitely took us by surprise that so many people have Bouvier experience but we appreciate you all!

Wow! 😮
This is an uncommon breed for rescue!
We are looking to assist another rescue with trying to take on a 7 month old male Bouvier des Flandres but in order to do that we do need a foster home to step up.

We are told he is good with other dogs (medium size & up is what we would prefer) but cats are unknown.

If you are within 1 hr from downtown Roseburg and would like to have the chance to experience fostering this breed, please message us through our website at: Soul2SoulAR.org

03/22/2025

If you are thinking of getting an animal for your child for Easter, please reconsider!

Rabbits are wonderful companions for the right person, but they require commitment and education, and should never be an Easter impulse.

WHY ADOPTING A RABBIT REQUIRES SERIOUS THOUGHT

Every year, thousands of rabbits are purchased as Easter gifts, only to be abandoned or surrendered to rescues when the novelty wears off (or worse - they are abandoned outside). Rabbits are not low-maintenance pets, are generally not suitable for children, and require specialized care. Many people realize this too late, especially around Easter.

🐰Children, while often enthusiastic about having a pet, are not developmentally equipped to provide the consistent and responsible care that bunnies (and other animals) require. Young children lack the necessary understanding of an animal’s physical and emotional needs, including proper handling, feeding, exercise, and veterinary care. Their attention spans, impulse control, and sense of long-term responsibility are still developing, making it easy for them to lose interest or forget essential tasks like feeding or cleaning. Additionally, they may unintentionally mishandle or stress an animal, leading to injury for either the child or the pet. Because of this, an adult should always be the primary caregiver for any family pet, ensuring its well-being, safety, and long-term care. While children can certainly participate in supervised pet care to learn responsibility and compassion, the ultimate responsibility must fall on a committed adult who understands the lifelong needs of the animal.

🐰 Rabbits Are a 10+ Year Commitment

🐰Rabbits are not easy-care pets
- They require hay 24/7, clean water daily, daily fresh greens, and pellets
- Their litter box needs daily cleaning
- They need plenty of space to roam and play
- They need a proper home base - no cages
- Bunnies need socialization and exercise every day
- Bunnies are destructive, they dig and chew - it is just their nature, so they need lots of enrichment

🐰 Rabbits and young children generally don’t mix well
- Rabbits are fragile and easily injured if picked up incorrectly
- They dislike being held, which can frustrate young children
- If scared, they can kick, scratch, or bite - not because they’re mean, but because they’re prey animals and get scared.

🐰 Rabbit care is expensive
- Veterinary care for rabbits is specialized and costly - not all vets treat rabbits! Finding a rabbit-specific exotic vet is absolutely necessary
- Spaying/neutering is essential to prevent health issues and behavioral issues

🐰 Rabbits should be indoors as a family member and not in a hutch outside
- Outdoor rabbits are at risk from predators, weather, illness, loneliness, parasites, etc.
-Rabbits are social animals and need interaction with their family
- They need temperature-controlled environments (too hot or cold can be fatal)

🐰 Rabbit health needs are unique
- Their teeth never stop growing and require proper diet & chew toys to stay healthy
- They are prone to digestive issues, which can be life-threatening if untreated. Learning all about G.I. Stasis is necessary.

🐰 Rabbits naturally dig and chew. They need plenty of enrichment and ways to burn energy, and safe places to run and play, in rooms that are bunny-proofed, by blocking off areas with cords, using cord covers, keeping unsafe items off of the floor, etc.

A SAD REALITY

🐰 Rabbits are the 3rd most surrendered pet in shelters after dogs and cats

🐰 Thousands of Easter rabbits are abandoned each year
- Many are released outdoors, where they cannot survive -domestic rabbits do not have the skills of wild rabbits.
- Others are surrendered to shelters, which often do not have the resources to care for an influx of unwanted rabbits.

🐰 According to the House Rabbit Society, 80% of Easter rabbits don’t make it to their first birthday due to neglect, improper care, or abandonment.
- Many shelters report a 30-50% increase in rabbit surrenders a few months after Easter.
- In some cities, rabbit abandonment spikes by 60% in the months following Easter.

WHAT CAN YOU DO INSTEAD OF BUYING A RABBIT FOR EASTER

💙 Give a stuffed bunny
🧡 Take time to learn about bunnies - read books, websites, and articles from rescues
💙 Support rabbit rescues – donate, engage on social media, volunteer
🧡Learn about fostering a rabbit to see what it is like to have one in your home
💙 Adopt, don’t shop – If you’re serious about getting a rabbit, adopt from a rescue, not a pet store or breeder! Every rabbit rescue is already overflowing with bunnies that need homes.

03/21/2025

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An infected growth, and bad teeth. Little Madea is a little mess. And her story is a little messy too! She was taken out of a hoarding situation in rural Oregon. The details aren’t really kn…

03/20/2025

We are asking for prayers and good thoughts for our Alumni, Milo.
Two weeks ago, his sister and best friend, Gina (female boxer pictured at the top of 3rd picture) passed from cancer. A cancer that she and her family fought so hard against and appeared to beat… until it came back with a vengeance 😩

Now our 5 yo boy is at Dove Lewis ER because there is something wrong with his heart and he’s having a hard time breathing.
There’s already been too much loss for this week, but especially for today, so say prayers that our boy can be healed and this is just a rough patch on his journey in life!
Please also keep his very devoted family in your prayers as they are struggling right now, as you can imagine.

Love you Milo!! ❤️🐾

03/20/2025

We are devastated to say that our rescue lost two of our Alumni today (we have a third one that is currently at an ER hospital and we will do a separate post on that one)

Hunter (previously Ryder; brindle) was an owner surrender from Southern California and came to us back in 2019.

Lolly (black) came to us as a senior at the beginning of 2021 after finding herself in a high kill California shelter. A very nice man said that he would foster if a rescue would save her and that’s all we needed to hear!

Both of these dogs came up to Oregon, found their forever homes and lived out the rest of their lives, being spoiled and loved dearly!!

Prayers to both of these families and RIP my precious babies!
See you at the Rainbow Bridge 🌈

03/19/2025

If you know something, speak up!

The breeding male of the Metolius pack in Western Oregon has been killed by a poacher and there is now a $10,000 reward being offered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for anyone with information about the killing. This is now the 7th known wolf mortality in Oregon in 2025, and this is the first known wolf poaching in Western Oregon in 2025. Wolves where the Metolius Pack live are federally protected as endangered under the federal endangered species act unless in defense of human life and we urge anyone with information to come forward. We will be posting a tip line in the comments where people can anonymously report poaching’s of any kind in Oregon. The breeding male of the Metolius Pack was found dead March 10th, 2025.

Photo is one of the Metolius Pack breeding adults taken by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and this post was written by John Marchwick.

Source

https://www.fws.gov/press-release/2025-03/reward-information-leading-arrest-criminal-conviction-or-civil-penalty

03/19/2025

In 2021, my boyfriend and I started volunteering for a program called Kennel Buddies, where volunteers come and get mostly long-term kennel dogs out of their runs for recreation/walks. Through this program, I was introduced to Rink Beck. Rink had a label of “not good with men,” and since I’m female, I luckily did not have to worry about that.

For the next four months, I'd take Rink on pack walks at local parks or out of her kennel run to play at the shelter. Rink and I did not have some sort of undeniable connection, as if this were a long lost “you-save-me-I-save-you” meeting waiting to happen. She was just chill and didn't give me problems, and I occasionally came along, as did other volunteers, to free her from the jail of her kennel run (see her first photo of when she lived there). I liked to take photos of her playing in the river and she liked, well, that I took her to play in a river. I had other kennel pups and a revolving door of foster dogs at home vying for attention, too, because we fostered for the same rescue.

Then the day came when we were between foster dogs. One we were particularly attached to had gotten adopted. We were coping with the conflicting sadness/happiness that all fosters deal with when they watch a dog leave. We just finished up vacation fostering another dog for a fellow volunteer, which was about all we felt ready to commit ourselves to for that time. We weren’t ready yet to invest our hearts into another dog that would leave in a day, a week, two months, who knows.

My previously remote work schedule was also shifting back into an office schedule without set hours, and I did not want to subject a dog to that. Since we were not ready to take on another foster fully, I had the brilliant idea of just getting one of my kennel friends out for a sleepover, a short respite from the kennel. I asked to take a chance on Rink for just one night. She just had to formally meet my boyfriend first, because she "doesn't like men," which made us hesitant, but that meet went completely fine!

So, we took her home. Just a sleepover. A sleepover to break the world record of sleepovers as Friday turned into Saturday then Sunday then Monday and so forth. She never returned to the kennel, and she became our next foster dog. But unlike our many foster dogs before her, Rink never got any applications. We didn't know the reason why she was overlooked when all we saw every day was an incredible, eager to please, intelligent, quirky love bug. Her one-year anniversary of being out of the kennel, which we called her Jailbreak Day, came, and went. Still, she received zero interest, until we realized why; she had been home all along! She had found us, not the other way around!

Rink spent at least 17 months of her life living in a kennel, 15 of those being consecutively before we started fostering her for a year and a half. Until finally, we “foster failed” and adopted her! On paper, she has a difficult behavior history, but who can blame her for not trusting humans fully? Her paperwork indicated somebody may have tried to drown her in the past, as well. Some humans are evil to animals; anyone in rescue knows that.

With slight modifications, she now thrives in our home and is known as “AdventuRINK” for all the adventures she goes on with us! From kayaking (see photo below) to van camping to visiting snowy mountaintops to staying at the finest pet-friendly hotels/Airbnbs, she really has become the Queen of her castle (see her second photo on her adoption day)! Rink took it upon herself to prove her written history wrong. Rink teaches the world that they should take a chance on a kennel dog! What is written about them does not have to be set in stone. A past projected onto a dog doesn't have to determine their future, but their story won't ever change without the right human to give them a chance to tell a new one!

03/19/2025

03/18/2025

Madea is a sweet senior girl who has been let down by everyone in her life up until she came to us.
Her foster home loves her with the love she has never had and her rescue wants her out of pain and healthy!!

Please help by sharing her campaign!
Every dollar donated goes towards her care, and no fees are taken!

An infected growth, and bad teeth. Little Madea is a little mess. And her story is a little messy too! She was taken out of a hoarding situation in rural Oregon. The details aren’t really kn…

03/18/2025

Update on Blue:
Our Vet feels she got great margins!!
Thank you to the handful of people who so generously donated!
You are a blessing to our beautiful boy that everyone falls in love with ❤️

We raised $875 of the $1850 needed for Blue. If you would like to still donate to help us cover this vet bill, you can call our vet at: 541-672-1621;
Venmo: Soul2SoulAR
PayPal: [email protected]
Zelle: 541-670-2117
Or hit the button below 👇

03/18/2025

ALL ABOUT BLUE 💙🩵🤍

Blue is a sweet boy who can't catch a break 😞 barely out of middle age, but his cancer keeps coming back ❤️‍🩹 Are you able to contribute toward his surgery today? Every little bit helps.

Blue is one of Soul 2 Soul Animal Rescue And Sanctuary's several medical dogs. They do everything they can for these dogs and don't give up on them; but it takes a village. Please consider sponsoring Blue or one of the other medical dogs.

What sweet Blue, a sanctuary dog due to his recurring cancer, wants more than anything, is a forever foster home where he can live out his life. Could that be your home?

03/17/2025

Other than to update on our two medical dogs that are at the vet this morning. Our rescue will be closed today.