Showing posts with label saving pit bulls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label saving pit bulls. Show all posts

Friday, April 8, 2016

Do you like pit bulls?

Some of the gang waiting to strut their stuff
Well, if you do, here's how you can help. Reunion Rescue is walking in Strut Your Mutt San Francisco and Austin this year. The events take place on September 21 in San Francisco and September 28 in Austin.

Reunion Rescue has been saving pit bulls for over 15 years from extremely high kill shelters in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond one dog at a time.


Team Betsy, Grace, Henry and Wylie ready to strut
Sasha waiting to strut





Reunion Rescue operates the only no-kill holistic raw feeding pit bull refuge in the world. We have a sanctuary full of bay area and other wonderful pit bulls who depend on Reunion Rescue and Reunion Rescue depends on you.

Please take a look at our strut pages and consider walking with us this year. You and your pet can join us in San Francisco or Austin to do the walk. You can also create a $10 virtual strut page and share it with your friends to help support Reunion Rescue pit bulls, the friendliest pit bulls in the world.

SAN FRANCISCO Strut Your Mutt:

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

AUSTIN, TEXAS Strut Your Mutt:

http://www.strutyourmutt.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.team&teamID=6334

Visit Reunion Rescue on our website to visit our resident dogs, our Health Page and Home Remedies to Heal Animals and blog with lots and lots of photos and stories.

Delta ready to strut

Here is a fun way to get some exercise with your own dog and help show the world how wonderful pit bulls really are.




Sunday, December 8, 2013

12 dogs of Christmas at Reunion Rescue

LuLu and Nolan...friends for life!
I woke up this morning and went around to see who's been naughty or nice this year. All I saw were nice dogs. Nobody's naughty at Reunion Rescue.

LuLu and Nolan are near perfect and looking for a home together. Nolan's old home was evil to him and he was on his way to Spindletop the day of the raid. Leah Purcell took all his chip in money, but we took him at Reunion Rescue and have gotten Nolan back on his feet. He was very sick.

LuLu was abandoned at daycare, but found her soulmate with Nolan. They are bonded and will only be adopted together, even if it takes forever.
Buster Posey

Buster Posey nearly died at Solano County ACC. After he was found by a kindly Reunion adopter and

Anybody looking for a Great Dane Weimaraner with a little bit of pit bull thrown in? He's lots of fun and not incredibly smart, but is working on getting his G.E.D.
her little boy, he wound up at ACC and was about to be put to sleep.

Reunion stepped up to the plate and now Buster is here safe at Reunion Rescue No Kill Refuge and looking for that forever home.

Vinny
Vinny came from Marin Humane Society. He is an extraordinary dog. Ok, so he's blind, but that doesn't slow Vinny down for a minute. He's what they call a hunka hunka burning love and thinks he is a puppy.

He figured out how to fetch and maneuver himself up and down three flights of stairs in an afternoon! He loves to play ball and will fetch till the cows come home. He's like a big ol' calf!

Vinny is sweet and charming and will make a wonderful companion for some special and very lucky soul.

Little Amber is a butterball and sweeter than honey. She's a victim of horrific abuse. We have no idea how she got that star shaped burn on top of her head, but she is not one to
Amber
dwell on her terrible past.

She was another Spindletop survivor and when we drove to Conroe to get her back from the mass raid and seizure at Spindletop, she was nearly shut down. No one knows what these poor dogs went through at that horrible place.

What we can do is give her lots of treats and love and cuddling and make her life as sweet as she is. Bless Amber and all these wonderful creatures who just want a little love. That's all. And a cookie.

Amber loves food and will eat anything..pineapples, carrots, you name it. So far, we haven't found a food type that isn't Amber's type.

Peanut
Peanut is another Spindletop survivor. I wrote a story about him when he was at Alvin, Texas animal control. Leah Purcell took advantage of his sad plight and pocketed donations raised to save his life.

When we got him, he threw up everything he ate, but I suspected it was due to his trauma. At first, instead of a raw diet, I cooked his chicken and deboned it with cottage cheese and well-cooked rice. Once he settled in, Peanut began to keep his dinner down and joined in with the rest to eat a delicious organic raw meat diet.

Who knows what Peanut suffered while he was at Spindletop, but we can try and change that. He is a perky, happy little boy who loves nothing better than to fetch that ball! He is all about fetch and
BeBe
will go like the Energizer rabbit if a ball's involved.

Everybody loves Peanut. He loves nothing better than to curl up in a little ball with the person he's with. After fetch, of course.

Next is BeBe...she used to be known as Batgirl as she was beaten over the head with a baseball bat before being dumped in Austin at ACC to die.

I wrote a few stories about her before I was threatened at the Examiner. Now I write blogs and pet BeBe. I pulled her as a citizen on my birthday three years ago in April. She went to Spindletop and survived. She was the first one out and has her own little house to live in at Reunion Rescue No Kill.

BeBe loves her orange ball, going on walks and old movies. She watches Turner Classic Movies round the clock on a big tv set.

The next installment will have more dogs...I'm going to get Shadow today!


Saturday, September 21, 2013

To a wonderful Strut Your Mutt in the San Francisco bay

Adena, Reed and Russell
Today was one of those magical days I'll remember for the rest of my life as one of the best days ever in Reunion Rescue's history. Here is the beginning of a work in progress...keep in mind this is only part one of the day...I'll be uploading more photos shortly ... so keep tuned in!!!

From cloudy to sunny to pouring rain, the Reunion Rescue crowd turned out at Best Friends' first ever San Francisco Strut Your Mutt. Reunion Rescue adopters and supporters began to turn out and didn't let a few showers crowd the fun for these wonderful pit bull lovers.

Captain Adena Blount and her son Reed showed up to kick off the show....

Jerzy, Hank, Duane, Lenny, Lily and Norm
Jerzy and Norm showed up with Hank and Lily. They have certainly proved the shelter wrong who said they couldn't handle Hank...today celebrates 13 years of their adopting Hank and they brought neighbor Lily, Hank's purty girlfriend.

Duane and Lenny hopped into the mix for a photo op. Duane adopted Sam (Carl) years ago when he was going to be put down for having a terribly fractured leg.

Thanks to Duane, Carl was saved and we raised the money for his surgery. Duane adopted Lenny a few years later and life was great. Duane recently lost Carl to terminal illness.

Hazel from Baldwin Park showed up with her mom Joan and Joan's daughter, Cindy...gotta love that name!

They brought along new foster dog German Shepherd Hilda.
Hazel, Joan, Hilda and Cindy


Hazel and Joan











Steaven, Buster and Ken
Many long years ago, Steaven and Ken walked their puppy Benny with Reunion in the Pride Parade....Benny was one of the first Reunion Rescue adoptions and lived a long and very happy life. When Steaven and Ken were ready to adopt another dog, they called and we delivered...

Buster came from the Bakersfield nine we pulled from KCAC....he was the last one unadopted because he was too 'shy'...well he's turned that shy act in for a smile and here's hoping he's gonna share that smile on many more future struts.

Gene, Heather and Delta's forever family!!!
When Delta was Pearlie Girl, she'd been pulled by another rescue from Martinez Shelter. She wound up on Craigslist and when the other rescue didn't respond, we negotiated and got her into boarding. Little did we know it would take almost two years, but Delta found her real forever home with Heather and Gene and their precious girls. It was worth the wait. If only there were a million more perfect homes like this one and all the homeless dogs could be happy ever after like Delta.
Darren, Todd, Wylie, Henry, Grace and Betsy
There are no words....but we miss Maddie. Todd and Darren adopted Madeline a long time ago and we all walked in Pride Parade. Maddie passed away last year and broke her daddy's heart. We remembered Maddie and the other ones we have loved and lost in our Hope's Memorial Walk this year.
David and Chino

Chino had to be darted when I saw him running down Dolores. The minute his stray period was over he was scheduled to be put to sleep. He had to wear a harness in doggy daycare and foster because he kept trying to take off again...but the minute he met David, it was a match made in heaven. That was many years ago and Chino has never left David's side. If only we could find a David for every shelter dog like Chino....

Team Brent and Kimberley with baby Bella Boo

Brent and Kimberley (a.k.a. softy cakes) are two of the most hardcore animal advocates we've run across in all our rescue years. Kimberley reached out when she came across Baxter who was abandoned at the Colma Banfield vet. He was very sick but Kimberley and Brent went to work raising the funds to try and help save him. Tragically, Baxter didn't have the strength to survive his compromised liver condition and he died peacefully in the arms of a very trusted Reunion allumni. We remembered Baxter today on Hope's Memorial Walk.
Dear Rudy with Debbie Harry and Boom Boom

Davika was a little rat terrier who'd been horribly abused her entire life and was waiting to die at Martinez Shelter. Reunion saved her and she had to have surgery for tumors and dental. She was an older girl, but Rudy adopted her and gave her the loving life she never knew in the years before we found her. She passed away in Rudy's arms after enjoying an extraordinary home with Rudy and Boom Boom. She cut a swath on their many hikes and travels and had her own blog.

Rudy recently saved little Debbie Harry and Davika was remembered today in our Hope's Memorial Walk.
Nicole, John with Jesse and family

Good friend and longtime Reunion foster Anne with her babies

Jan and Buster Posey

Heather (Pearlie Girl now Delta's mom) Catarina and Scott with Delta's daddy Gene

Me squeezing the dickens out of Delta!

Delta with her sweet dad, Gene

Delta with her proud and loving parents

Darren, Scott, Catarina, me, Todd and the 'pack'

Sweet Delta's familty with Catarina and Scott

Joan, Todd and Scott

Steaven, Ken and Buster

Jerzy and his Hank trying to keep dry

Daddy's boy

Lily is pretty in pink

Lily girl

Lenny knows how to stay warm and dry

Hazel is an original 'kissabull' staying warm and dry

Team Anne...with her own babies

Anne's the reason more than a few Reunion dogs are in their happy homes today

Russell says I'd rather chuck-it than strut 

Russell all swaddled up


Saturday, August 31, 2013

Remembering Dolcie: from tragedy to happiness

Many years ago, I was playing with a dog named Elsie outside San Francisco Animal Control. Like so many others before her and sadly, after her impound at SFACC, Elsie was scheduled to die.

A bevy of media personnel was in house that day covering the high profile case involving Hera, the dog accused of mauling Diane Whipple one year before. Although evidence had been offered that Hera was not guilty of the mauling and had shown nothing but gentle behavior to all who handled her, she was going down. Somebody had to pay and once the trial was over and Hera's use as 'evidence' with completed, she would be killed.
This particular day, a lone photographer wandered out to the side yard, note the fire hose in the background, the notorious fire hose that would nearly kill another dog a year later, Slappy. 

The reporter lowered his camera and asked me, 'What do you think it is that makes these dogs go bad?'

Elsie and I didn't miss a beat and as she soared up into the free air for a ball, I answered him. 'The media.'

We both laughed and he continued to go about his work and took this shot of Elsie, a wonderful dog, scheduled to die like so many others at SFACC just for being a pit bull.

Elsie had a sad story like so many others. She was spotted by Angela, a longtime MacLaren Park resident who'd walk her own senior dogs in the San Francisco Excelsior neighborhood. Angela noticed Elsie with her companion, a black lab, running and playing in the tall Eucalyptus groves.

On one particular morning, Angela saw city workers removing the body of the black lab who'd been run over by a car. Elsie was sitting by his body. Angela remembers, "There was a police officer on site and he told me to stay back.  I saw her and she looked up with those human eyes of her.  I brought her a bowl of food and water."

"When the woman from the Animal Control came to pick her up and the other dog.  She laid her whole body over the dead animal.  The police officer, the woman from Animal Control and myself could not believe what we had just witnessed."
"You hear about these things all the time, but to actually see it brought tears to your eyes.  Dolce went very willingly with the woman.  She put her in the back of the truck.  I went around to see her and that is when she grabbed my heart and soul.  She literally had tears rolling down her face, and those eyes.  I will never forget those eyes."  

Angela adopted 'Dolcie' short for Dolcenea from Reunion Rescue. "She was really my "big, beautiful girl."   I used to call her "Dolcie do right" - she really could do no wrong.

This is much how life works in rescue. So many do not make it out of the confines of high kill shelters, but ever so often, there is an Angela, a Dolcie and a happy story for a change.

The media usually isn't knocking down our door to report these stories, but there's always my little blog, Pit Bulls and Other Animals which can try and tell one happy story to make up for all the nasty horrible ones.

Dolcie had a happy life. "We went on long walks in McLaren Park and she would slide down the hills head first on the green grass in winter.  She swam like an Olympian -outswimming every dog in McLaren Park."

"She loved it here in Sonoma, after we moved from San Francisco, on October 12, 2005.  She had a big bag yard with green lawn to roll around in and we went on long walks.  That's where we met Panda Bear, our neighbor's dog (part Poodle and English Sheep dog).  She loved him and when I took him in at seven months, she mothered him like her own."

"She was healthy and well until the time she left us on October 7, 2011, and now patiently awaits our arrival at Rainbow Bridge."


Dolcie will be remembered on our memorial walk with Hope and Pam on September 21 at Treasure Island in Best Friends Strut Your Mutt. Hope and Pam's walk is open for anyone who had a Dolcie in their life and would like to walk with us.

http://www.strutyourmutt.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=16714

Monday, July 1, 2013

If dogs run free

Hotter than a tick in Texas this morning, but we're still doing our deal. The dogs want to be inside literally chillin' out, but I got to make them get their vitamin D...and daily dose of sunshine.

So, I turn up the radio and it's Mr. Dylan singing about dogs and running free....

....oh, winds which rush my tale to thee...
....so it may flow and be...

Guido in the creek...............and Amber

Peanut ........... Vinny, Guido and Amber


Guido and Amber....................................Tex and Girl




Thursday, June 6, 2013

Shade Tarp Blues....

We finally got the shade tarps up and running! The dogs and cats love 'em! And birdies, too. Thank you everyone who pitched in so Reunion Rescue No-Kill Refuge can keep our sanctuary animals cool as cucumbers this summer!

A taste of what's to come...

Guido is loving the new tarps....

Riley and Mike..artisans hard at work...

First shade tarp almost up and running...

Work in progress...

One down, three to go...

Riley and Mike putting up them tarps!



More to come from the honest to goodness...
home of the world's friendliest and coolest pit bulls...

Reunion Rescue No Kill Refuge