About Us

At Grey Face Rescue & Retirement, we believe every senior animal deserves love, comfort, and dignity in their golden years. Dedicated to rescuing animals age 7 and older, we provide compassionate care, safe shelter, medical support, hospice services, foster placement, and adoption opportunities for seniors who are often overlooked.

We proudly accept senior animals without discrimination based on breed, medical conditions, behavior, or history—because every senior matters. Whether an animal needs a temporary safe place to land or lifelong hospice care, our mission is to ensure they are surrounded by kindness, respect, and comfort every step of the way.

Our passionate volunteers and foster families are the heart of our organization. Through individualized care and loving homes, they help senior pets heal, thrive, and experience the companionship they deserve. We also work to connect these incredible animals with adopters who understand the unique joy and responsibility of welcoming a senior pet into their family.

At Grey Face Rescue & Retirement, we are more than a rescue—we are advocates for senior animals and the people who love them. We strive to educate and strengthen the bond between families and pets to help prevent surrender later in life. When rescue is needed, we are committed to providing exceptional care through our foster, hospice, and adoption programs.

Because every senior deserves comfort, care, happiness, and a second chance.

What We Do

At Grey Face Rescue & Retirement, we are dedicated to giving senior animals—age 7 and older—the loving second chance they deserve. We accept all seniors into our rescue and hospice care, without discrimination based on breed, medical conditions, behavior, or history. Every senior animal matters.

Our passionate volunteers work tirelessly to find the perfect foster homes where our seniors receive individualized, compassionate care. We also seek special adopters who understand the unique needs of senior pets and can provide them with their forever homes filled with love and dignity.

Because every senior deserves comfort, care, and happiness in their golden years.

Our Mission

Grey Face Rescue & Retirement strives to educate and strengthen the bond between families and pets to help avert the need for rescue in later years. When rescue is needed, we provide exceptional care to ensure every animal is respected, valued, and able to live with comfort and dignity through our foster, hospice, and adoption programs.

Our Story

Grey Face Rescue & Retirement was born long before the paperwork, the logo, or even the name. It began with a senior dog named Barnabee and the unbreakable bond he shared with my Great Uncle Vern.

For 13 years, it was just the two of them together on the farm. They were inseparable — sharing every quiet morning, every routine, and every moment side by side. So when Uncle Vern needed to move into assisted living, the thought of Barnabee being surrendered to a shelter was heartbreaking. He had never known kennels, concrete floors, or loud unfamiliar spaces. His gentle spirit deserved more than that.

At barely 23 years old, I brought Barnabee home without hesitation.

A year later, I took him back to visit Uncle Vern at the farm. I’ll never forget watching Barnabee curl up beside his person again, exactly where he had always belonged. It was a reminder that love, loyalty, and family do not fade with age.

Barnabee spent three beautiful years with me before passing away at 16 years old. Though our time together was short, he changed the course of my life forever. He gave me purpose. He showed me that senior animals are not at the end of their story — they are simply waiting for someone willing to help complete it with love and dignity.

That is how Grey Face began.

Grey Face exists to honor senior animals, not overlook them.

We are committed to giving seniors the love, comfort, medical care, and dignity they deserve in their golden years. Through foster homes, hospice care, and adoption programs, we create a place where families are found, memories are made, and every animal is treated as valued and loved for the rest of their days.

Barnabee started it all.

Grey Face Rescue & Retirement was created not just to save senior animals, but to give them what Barnabee had — a family who will never forget them.

Because they never forget us.

Bethie Gondeck, Executive Director and Founder of Grey Face Rescue

Requests for annual reports, IRS Form 990s, or other financial and organizational information may be directed to our Treasurer at treasurer@greyfacerescue.org