Sunday, July 6, 2025

Reunion Rescue's 3-step reactive dog rehab


Reunion Rescue has spent several decades saving dogs. Our work has led us up and down a rocky path, many times two forward and three back. But, we kept trying. A monumental breakthrough was in Raspberry's Story. Raspberry, as you will read in the blog, was a waggy-tail dog park dog being fostered by our tea guy at the old Steeping Room at the Domain. When he and his girlfriend had to leave town, Reunion stepped up to foster Raspberry. She immediately went into heat and was scheduled for a spay at Emancipet. They gave her a rabies shot and I picked up a dog who went from kissy face to going for the face in one afternoon.

This experience set off a year-long baptism of fire. I was in the process of writing Pit Bull Nation to which I credit sparing Raspberry's life. Previous to the book, I would have seriously considered putting her down. She was totally unadoptable. She went after everything that moved. I had to find out what had caused the drastic change in her behavior. We walked everywhere there weren't people or wildlife. Winter, summer, fall and spring.

Throughout this year I worked with an animal communicator and another person in the ac group who did emotion code work, something I'd never heard of. The AC person also practiced reiki on Raspberry. They worked on her for about 6 months, during which period, I found Doug the Dogwalker who'd helped a friend's dog. He really is a dog whisperer and agreed to assess Raspberry at his compound. On the way, I got a call from Linda the emotion code practitioner. She was very excited and had been talking with Jayne, the AC. They'd lit together on a product which treats rabies vaccinosis with zeolites. In Raspberry's case, the product we happened to have on hand was Waiora.

I turned the car around and headed back to my house to grab the Waiora. I dosed Raspberry and set back out for Doug's. By the time we arrived, Raspberry was a different dog. Jump to a Disney ending. Raspberry not only passed her assessment at Doug's with flying colors that day, but Doug ended up adopting her. She became head diva at the doggy day care which sometimes housed over 65 dogs!

So over the years, Reunion Rescue has encountered tons of reactive dogs. We get calls all the time to take someones' pet because they've "done everything" and "spent over $4000 on training." I'm scratching my head every time, because what kind of trainer hasn't figured out that they are dealing with a physical condition. Maybe sometime after they've collected $3k from the poor owner, they should re-evaluate.

I'm all for a great trainer and have endorsed several on Reunion Rescue's website. Sadly, I can count on one hand the trainers we trust our dogs to. We use Roman Gottfried who is a holistic dog trainer and can fix anything. The coolest thing about Roman's work is he endorses the same holistic support as Reunion Rescue...CBD oil, flower essences. He truly is a dog behavior scientist we and all our dogs trust.

So I've cooked up a 3-Step schedule to help anyone out there who is suffering reactive dog issues and would like to share it here:

3 Step Detox/reactive dog turnaround

1. We at Reunion Rescue believe most reactivity is caused by the harmful metals (mercury) injected by rabies vaccines.   Lyssin/Thuja homeopathy dose to detox from vaccines - see Health Page reunionrescue.com
Daily dose zeolites to remove toxins metals from body from vaccines - every day from now on.

2. Raw diet..also Health page reunionrescue.com - start very easy with organic ground turkey mixed into regular food to transition
CBD Dog Health ..also Health Page reunionrescue.com - they will consult and assess the correct and perfect cbd fir your pet..this is the only CBD company Reunion Rescue endorses and uses.
Botonical Animal also on health pagereunionrescue.com..they also do consults and have kits and singular essences we have used with much success- Devil Be Gone etc.

3. Then after a good detox, a good trainer. We use Roman Gottfried Holistic dog trainer who is in line with using cbd/flower essences/diet etc. Roman is also on our Links and Training pages reunionrescue.com

Our site is filled with solutions. The main aim at Reunion Rescue is to lower the number of companion animals being turned into high kill shelters, so many due to the huge costs at vet clinics. We have discovered so many holistic solutions with diet and supplements you can order on Amazon for a micrometer of vet costs.

We are always here to help. It is Reunion's passion to keep these pets out of the shelters. No question is too small and if you're on Facebook, we have a page devoted to helping people: Home Remedies to Heal Animals where if you've got questions, we've got answers.

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