Amazing rescue: pulls needles out of three dogs being killed

In Palmdale, California: This one person stepped up to the plate to save three dogs being killed and needs our help.

She received "a call today from a girl who was crying. Her brother had decided to put his (6) 3 yr old Pit Bulls to sleep. He cannot keep them anymore, and has been evicted due to them. He did not want to take them to the shelter, and have them die there alone. Our local shelter is the worse shelter in LA County, and is 70% full of Pit Bulls at any given time."

She "literally got her to pull the needles out of the dogs as they were already at the vet, being prepped. Please help me save them, we only have a few days."

This good person is begging for help.

Conan - male - Fawn - He is a very lovable boy.  He likes to take long walks, run, jump and play.  He loves to chew on rawhide bones during his "leisure time". He enjoys treats and is willing to take them when given the following commands: sit, shake, high five, come and "easy" when accepting food. Just like any dog he loves getting hugs and gives lots of kisses. He would fit best with people who don't have any other pets.

Conan

 

Sheera

Sheera - female - Fawn - She loves her "blankies"(blankets, sheets, towels to lay on).  She likes to take naps.  She loves playing fetch and jumps really high.  She likes to take walks and loves getting belly rubs.  She gives kisses and loves getting hugs. She is allergic to certain dry foods (no Purina brand) but loves snacks like: tortilla chips, popcorn, saltines, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, carrots, peas, applesauce and white rice.  Not to mention she loves boiled chicken! She is a very sweet girl.

Vespa

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Vespa - female - Gray/White - She has a very unique bark when she's hungry. Taking long walks and dancing to Maroon Five are her favorite things to do.  She is a very calm and loving girl.  She loves getting hugs and likes her ears rubbed. She enjoys chew toys and loves to drink water. At night she likes to sleep with a blanket or sheet.

Honey

 Honey - female - Fawn/White - She got her name because her personality and color.  She is a sweet girl and she likes to lick on honey. She enjoys taking long walks and playing fetch outside.  Chewing on rawhide bones or a chew toy is the best way she likes to spend her time.

Gigi

Gigi - female - Gray/White chest  - She is a very lovable girl.  She likes to play catch and fetch. She loves drinking water and tends to sleep at your feet or next to you.  She likes sleeping with a blanket at night (if she is by herself) and enjoys getting her belly rubbed.  You know she likes you when she shows you her belly. Playing with chew toys and enjoying her "nap time" are the best ways she spends her day.

Zena

 Xena - female - Gray - She loves giving kisses even "french kisses".  =) She is very lovable and enjoys taking walks outside.  She loves chewing on rawhide bones or chew toys. She likes getting her belly rubbed and loves to scratch her back on the carpet or grass.  She also clips her own nails.  She does not like the nail clipper sound.  At night, she enjoys sleeping on a blanket, sheet or towel.  She will request it by barking a certain way.

 

These are family pets and due to breed specific legislation, they were being euthanized. How in the world did California annex to Denver all of a sudden?

Please help by sharing their story and offering homes, rescue, a few bucks or whatever it takes to save these beautiful dogs:

Carrie "Poe" Grooms
Secondhand Animals
PO Box 1993
Rosamond, Ca 93560

EMAIL:

lynn@lpsecondhandanimals.com

EMAIL:

poe@lpsecondhandanimals.com

Government official Kory Nelson wishes for child mauling

Kory Nelson is the man behind Denver's pit bull slaughter in which pets were dragged from their homes and killed by the thousands. Kory Nelson is Denver's Assistant City Attorney and a government official.

The man who made a name for himself killing other people's pets by the truckload has now issued a statement that he's hoping for  'a celebrity's child to be attacked....'

Nelson, always aping for the spotlight, has even endorsed shooting dogs in the street something like the recent dog slaughters in Sochi.

DogsBite.org is the group headed by Colleen Lynn and has become notorious for using 'flawed statistics' to promote hate for pit bull-type dogs. Lynn, who calls herself a 'social activist' moved to Austin, Texas in 2010 to promote her operation.

What kind of people hate dogs so much they fabricate facts and figures to propagandize a doctrine

promoting death to all animals who have a certain appearance? What kind of person advocates tragic mauling of an innocent child in order to hype his hostile campaign?

Sound familiar?

"Hitler, Adolf(1889–1945), German leader, born in Austria; chancellor of Germany 1933–45. He cofounded the National Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party in 1919 and came to prominence through his powers of oratory. He wrote Mein Kampf (1925), an exposition of his political ideas, while in prison. He established the totalitarian Third Reich in 1933. His expansionist foreign policy precipitated World War II, while his fanatical anti-Semitism led to the Holocaust.

• [as n. ] ( a Hitler) a person with authoritarian or tyrannical characteristics : little Hitlers in the classroom."

It is a terrifying thought that a man with 'ideals' inspiring hate groups holds a government position. How is modern-day Denver so different from Nazi Germany?

No one in the thinking anti-BSL legislation movement endorses mauling or bad dog behavior. It's common to hear the statement 'ban the deed, not the breed' among those of us looking for solutions.

Is it pure hate or just plain old wanting to be famous?

Houston SPCA uses a blind puppy to raise big $$, but kills all pit bulls

When we posted the huge fundraiser for Ziggety Zag, a blind puppy being promoted for huge donation money, people began to respond they had no idea Houston SPCA kills all pit bull dogs and puppies. We posted the outrageous Houston SPCA plea with the opening line, "The Houston SPCA believes all animals deserve a second chance at life!"

How can a 501(c)(3) entity get away with such a bald faced claim? Houston SPCA makes over 10 million a year and has its own Animal Planet television show. There are never any pit bulls on the show because they're all euthanized.
No name pittie will die at Houston SPCA Facebook page was created to try and raise awareness to the ongoing slaughter of pit bull dogs at this massive Houston facility which enjoys so much revenue and attention.


Sadly, many still believe the Houston SPCA gives all animals a fair chance as they promised in their offensive post. The dog 'no name' in our No name pittie will die at Houston SPCA Facebook page never had the wonderful opportunity given to this blind puppy to be adopted, to have life and a forever home after fundraising chores are done with.


Reunion Rescue tried to save 'no name' pittie who made the mistake of wandering up to the wrong home. After a plastic bowl of water, the unsuspecting homeowner called Houston SPCA who not only turned Reunion Rescue down when our 501(c)(3) with exemplary record saving pit bulls, but killed her as soon as her 72 hour stray-hold was up.


We began a sorrowful mission that day with No name pittie will die at Houston SPCA Facebook page and a petition demanding the director Patti Mercer be fired and the facility investigated. If Houston SPCA is picking up stray dogs and animals, shouldn't they be accountable to someone? If not the city of Houston, then perhaps the state? Someone? Anyone?


No Kill Houston has done extensive research and has published shocking records and statistics about Houston SPCA and the mass killing that goes on behind its lush, but deadly doors.
We will continue to alert the public about the killing, the contests, the fundraising and the atrocity that seems to go completely unnoticed, yet well-heeled to the extreme.


Houston, please wake up. There are a small and dedicated group of hardcore volunteers that drop everything and drive when they hear of a stray pit bull on the roam in Houston zip codes. Although these people are animal lovers who strive to help save these dogs, the real reason behind their motivation is sheer desperation. These good people are terrified the Houston SPCA 'cops' infamous from long running Animal Planet's 'Animal Cops Houston' will arrive at the scene before the dog can be saved.


No name pittie will die at Houston SPCA welcomes all animal lovers who wish to see change and help save some of the some millions of animals dying at this institution.

BSL results in DOA for another pit bull shot by cops

St. Clair Shores: Police shoot and kill yet another pit bull. According to a story in the Detroit Free Press "St. Clair Shores police officers shot and killed a pit bull mix Friday morning, saying the dog menaced several people and then charged officers who attempted to capture it."

The reader doesn't need to travel far to find out what really happened to Lexie, an 18 month old dog who was brutally shot by a cop. Stated near the end of the Detroit Free Press article, was this description:

"Preston lives at the home with her grandfather, Tom Warunek, who witnessed the shooting. He said three officers came to his door. “He said they were going to shoot the dog,” Warunek said. “She wouldn’t come in, and then he took one shot and it’s right in front of me on the side porch.”

"Warunek said the dog squealed and ran into the bushes, where the officer shot it several more times and watched the animal die."

So, the office needed to shoot Lexie several times while she was bleeding to death in the bushes? Who was he protecting....the shrubbery?

Lexie was owned by 19 year old Brittany Preston who lives with her grandfather. Preston's grandfather witnessed the gangland-style killing of an animal.

Please take a minute to thank the St. Claire Shores police department for keeping the landscape safe....safe from dying pit bulls.

The name of the officer who shot and killed Lexie is unknown. Lexie was saved by Brittany Preston when Lexie's family moved to a county which practiced BSL and does not allow pit bulls.

Shame on the cop who shot Lexie over and over while she bled to death.

City of St. Clair Shores
Police Department
27665 Jefferson Avenue
St. Clair Shores, MI 48081

Ph: 586-445-5300
All calls for emergency police, fire, or EMS: 9-1-1
Dispatch Ph: 586-777-6700
Nonemergency Front Desk: 586-445-5300 opt. 1      

Mayor Kip C. Walby

walby@scsmi.net

586-445-3983

San Francisco pays out big bucks to kill pit bulls

Recent statistics revealed some disturbing information for America's beloved first native dog breed, the American Pit Bull Terrier.

Fix San Francisco Facebook page has gathered some alarming and terrifying statistics which conjure up images from Denver's mass pit bull slaughter in which nearly 3500 family pets were removed from their homes and killed.

"It's hard to read page after page of Pit Bull-type dogs that were killed at Animal Care & Control San Francisco (SF ACC). " 

"If San Francisco took a targeted, humane approach to addressing this issue through dog training classes, accessible and low-cost spay/neuter, other pet retention programs, effective return to guardians, effective adoption, foster, and rehabilitation programs (rather than breed specific legislation - BSL). THIS would end the mass killing of Pit Bull - type dogs at SF ACC and virtually end the killing of dogs at SF ACC ! In addition,The San Francisco SPCA puts only a few up for adoption (relaying a message that they are not good dogs) and recommends not using the "pit bull" label."

Even more alarming were the posted salaries of three individuals who run the city's shelter which is destroying nearly every pit bull dog that enters. Over half a million dollars is being paid to Rebecca Katz and her assistant, deputy director Kat Brown with Captain Vicki Guldbech.  

Brown recently retired with benefits and is soon to be replaced with another highly paid official. According to a source with ties to SFACC, "they just hired Kat Brown's replacement as deputy director and apparently he is some "20-year suit" from city hall with ZERO shelter experience. Status Quo obviously wants to keep it that way." 

While a half million with benefits for performing a city job might not seem bloated, when considering most of the inventory is being euthanized, the disbursement of these funds is questionable...and disturbing. When the director Rebecca Katz was heard laughing about killing puppies on a recent appearance on the Monty Show, we didn't get the joke. There is nothing funny about killing dogs and even less humor when it's learned how fat the pay stub is. 

After the shelter's recent schedule closing on Sundays and Mondays, the employees have a much shorter work week. Ideally, this kind of money would buy a program with vision about solutions, not killing. When your hiree helped write the BSL adopted by the city's SB861, based on Kory Nelson's Denver legisilation.....well, you get what you pay for and in this case, that's a lot of dead pit bulls.

It's time for a change. It's time to stop the killing. Pit Bull Nation states that were there actually this number of 'behavior' statistics as reported by SFACC, there would be dire need for emergency assistance. Many of the dogs termed 'behavior' on San Francisco ACC statistics were owned pets which does not add up. Why do more 'behavior' cases seem to be located in San Francisco than elsewhere?

One fact is certain. There are groups like Fix San Francisco and San Francisco Pit Bull Watcher who are doing just that....we are watching you, San Francisco. 

Hank is a senior former San Francisco death row dog

....and Hank is walking this Saturday for Reunion Rescue Strut Your Mutt. This Saturday, Best Friends is hosting the walk-a-thon for homeless pets from 8 to 1.....

Hank was on death row about to be killed way back in 2002. His dads Jerzy and Norm saved Hank through Reunion Rescue and he's been living the life ever since.

Hank, Jerzy and Norm will be strutting for homeless pets in San Francsico and everywhere this Saturday.

Please consider a small donation or better yet create your own virtual strut page by joining the Reunion Rescue pack and showing the world how wonderful our rescue dogs are!

Please help Reunion Rescue continue our lifesaving work and stay tuned! We will be posting photos and updates until and throughout the event so you can see other seniors and former San Francisco shelter dogs strutting their stuff!

Take a look at some of the strutters on our Facebook Strut Your Mutt San Francisco page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/526038447451466/

Famed California tourist spot bans pit bull service dog

Pup-cake the service dog unwelcome at Tom's Farm

Tom's Farms bills itself as a "California destination since 1971" has reportedly turned away a young girl with autism and her service dog, a pit bull.

The company's Facebook page  which advertises a restaurant, professional services and an outdoor retreat hosts events to entice traveling families to attend. Currently, tourist attractions include a Civil War reenactment with 'Lincoln' reading the Gettysburg Address.

He won't be reading it to pit bulls, though, because pit bulls, even though certified service animals protected under the same laws as guide dogs for the blind, are not welcome at Tom's Farm.

Although dogs are welcome in certain areas at Tom's Farm, Pup-cake was asked to 'leave the premises.'

This is a trained service dog and not a danger to anyone, in fact, necessary and legal assistance for his young charge. Pup-cake with painted toenails and his little charge were banned from Tom's Farms.

Pit bull owners are irate and posting on the site's Facebook page. "As the owner of 2 wonderful dogs which happen to be pit bulls I am once again faced with the ignorance of people regarding this breed The poor child's dog was banned simply because of the breed.A service dog is a service dog regardless of the type. Besides breaking the law you are perpetuating the idea that these dogs are inherently dangerous which is simply not true.I would hope you would rethink your decision before this goes further and you are left with a lot of bad publicity."

Tom's Farms might not have heard about the backlash suffered by other businesses over breed specific statements and bans. McDonald's and Farmer's Insurance suffered huge consequences for anti-pit bull remarks. Their endorsements of convicted felon and animal abuser Michael Vick brought Subway and Nike considerable bad press. Kelly Rippa is only one of a few celebrities who've learned that a slip of the tongue can wind up leaving an incredibly bad taste.

Tom's Farms deserves an education about pit bull breeds as do many who issue these unfair bans. Tom's Farms is located in Southern California near over-stressed and very high kill shelters in which pit bulls are being killed by the truckloads daily. BSL such as employed by Tom's Farms kills dogs.

Tom's Farms
23900 Temescal Canyon Road
Corona, CA 92883
Phone: (951) 277-4422
https://www.facebook.com/tomsfarms

Two San Francisco pittie puppies

Yesterday, Reunion Rescue received an urgent call from a young man in the peninsula near San Francisco. He'd found a puppy running loose in Pacifica and took the puppy to Peninsula Humane Society.

After hearing some stories from other locals about the strict assessment tests and euthanasia rates for pit bulls at PHS, he went back to the facility and got the puppy. He was told by PHS if the puppy did not pass their battery of assessment tests, the puppy could be euthanized.

Several articles have been written about Peninsula Humane Society regarding pit bull euthanasia practices. Reunion stepped up for this puppy and we are now trying to raise donations to take care of his vetting and neutering so he can enter our foster program.

The young man agreed to keep him overnight while Reunion Rescue networks for a foster home and makes arrangements for his neuter surgery. Please share this one's story and consider a small donation to help us care for him.

As soon as this one seemed to have a plan in place, we got another late night call. A gentleman in San Francisco telephoned asking for help. He's been left with an abandoned pit bull puppy. He was getting ready to take the puppy thought to be about four months old to San Francisco Animal Care and Control. SFACC has a longstanding career of euthanizing pit bulls.

Reunion Rescue has spent years trying to save pit bulls from this facility after having been banned in 2003. We have been able to save many like Allie, Faris, Buddy, Wylie, Maddie, Slappy, Ollie and tons of others scheduled to die at SFACC, but need help. Every dog we've saved before the ban was taken from SFACC death row and about to be euthanized.

Since Reunion Rescue's 2003 ban, we've had to rely on the help of finders and private citizens to save the lives of San Francisco dogs condemned to die at SFACC. Reunion Rescue depends solely on private donations to save lives. We need your support to continue this work.

Please share these two puppies' stories and consider a donation to help us save them and so many others.

Visit http:www.reunionrescue.com and click the donate button. We need funding to vet and neuter these puppies so they can join us in our San Francisco Strut Your Mutt event Saturday the 21st on Treasure Island.

Please join the puppies and Reunion Rescue in our walk for homeless pets everywhere. You can create a virtual walk for only $10 to help these and other dogs should you and your pet not be able to attend.

Please share: http://www.strutyourmutt.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.team&teamID=6335

We will be creating a Facebook page for the puppies with updates and photos, so keep tuned in for details.

14 pit bulls at San Francisco Animal Control

....but only these two available for adoption:

What will happen to the other 12 dogs which the public never sees?

Even the most overfilled stressed shelters are allowing their dogs to be publicized and networked. Even Lancaster and Devore, some of California's most high kill shelters allow their dogs to be promoted by animal advocates. 

Nobody is promoting these dogs in the back rooms of one of the most affluent cities in the country. 

What will happen to these dogs?

Miranda Devine pit bull buyback, a bloody scam

The reality

Miranda Devine suggests a "dog buyback" similar to what she calls a 'gun buyback.' Miranda Devine is a 'hard hitting journalist' according to the Daily Telegraph, but does 'hard hitting' refer to killing millions of family pets?

"A life for a life, you might call it," as she calls all 'pit bull-type dogs' 'inherently dangerous.'

This from someone who could not have possibly met the hundreds of thousands 'pit bull-type dogs' living with families as cherished pets and canine good citizens.

According to Miranda Devine, "They are responsible for a disproportionately large share of the most

Miranda Devine

serious dog attacks, and yet politicians continue to bow to the dog lobby. Enough. A dangerous dog is a weapon which can be every bit as lethal as a gun."

Devine suggests a 'buyback' in which she generously offers "an amnesty of a few weeks before the owner of every pit bull, or similar vicious breed, is required to relinquish their dogs to the local council."

So for this one person's tirade, hundreds of thousands of family pets would be mass slaughtered by a stranger, just because Miranda Devine suggested in her column.

"They can then choose a safer breed from the tens of thousands waiting for a new home in pounds and animal shelters. The owner can be recompensed by the taxpayer for the small costs incurred. The dangerous breed is then humanely put to sleep, while a dog on death row is saved."

What kind of breed would Miranda allow us to choose? Might we have a pug or a lab? What if that pug or lab had the dreaded 'pit bull-type dog' gene. Would that dog upon discovery be taken from the arms of his family to be destroyed. What kind of pet would Miranda Devine allow that family to choose in the dog's place? Which breed then, Miranda Devine?

This sort of senseless breed specific tirade does nothing but sell more papers. My parakeets have something to line the cage, but literally speaking, Miranda Devine's ill thought suggestion is good for nothing else but to catch bird poop.

Instead of lashing out at the multitudes who share their lives with bully breeds, why not put that energy into education and outreach? BSL for Dummies exposes the flaws in the system and one city's battle to overturn BSL which cannot and does not work.

Devine engaged controversy when she used a politician's decision to parent a child with a same sex partner arguing "that 2011 riots in England were the result of a "fatherless society" – that is, a society that increasingly accepts children growing up in gay and single mother households." Wow. here's hoping that family didn't adopt a pit bull puppy!

While tragic incidents have occurred which could easily have been prevented, no one is trying to avert change. There is need for great change, but it's been proved to not work through breed specific legislation.

Voice your opinions here and please sign the petition created to let Miranda Devine and Prime Minister Don Page know this sort of maneuver is only an attempt to sell newspapers. Take the pledge to stop Miranda Devine's 'buyback' scheme.