Here today, gone tomorrow: 100's of missing Harvey dogs from Houston SPCA

Three of the pets from Houston SPCA website...gone. Where are we?

Pit Bulls and Other Animals has been tracking the Ford Center dogs and other animals since Houston SPCA stormed in and took over the operation September 3, 2017. The highly funded public charity pushed out Best Friends and other first responders which raised huge concerns as HSPCA has a long history of killing pit bulls.

Social media went viral with reports of 40 some odd pit bulls that disappeared and were suspected of being killed by Houston SPCA. Best Friends created a petition begging Patti Mercer, director of Houston SPCA to keep the animals safe until owners could be reunited. Mercer refused. The HSPCA did post over 200 dogs on their website, but these dogs have mysteriously and suddenly disappeared.

We have placed several calls to Houston SPCA, but they seem to be very tight-lipped about the animals. We were referred to their media person Julie K who has not returned our calls. What is the big secret?

The only response we have been able to squeeze out of the tight-lipped Houston SPCA was this on their Facebook page:


At the time of this post, there were only a total of 47 dogs on the Houston SPCA website for adoption. Hundreds of animals disappeared from the Harvey link which is no longer offered on their site.

Where are these dogs? Were they, at best, shipped off to other shelters and rescues? With all of the horrors in the news regarding high-kill shelters and dangerous rescue organizations, we are concerned about these Beaumont, Texas animals and their well-being. Are they still alive?

Or...were they killed as has been the history at Houston SPCA to kill all pit bulls and other animals they deem not cute enough to raise huge funds like the present I Walk for Animals campaign. The Houston SPCA rakes in about $40 million a year as a public tax-exempt charity. This means these animals are publicly owned and the Houston SPCA must account for the whereabouts of these dogs and cats.


The Houston SPCA's number is 713-869-7722. These dogs and cats need to be accounted for and by law, the Houston SPCA owes an explanation for each and every animals they impounded.

No name pittie will die at Houston SPCA is a Facebook page dedicated to the animals missing or killed by the Houston SPCA.

We can only hope that the missing hundreds of dogs placed into the care of Houston SPCA which has always killed all pit bulls are safe. If only this institution placed a fraction of the effort they put into fundraising drives like their I Walk for Animals event and Chevron sponsored Run For a Reason, maybe there wouldn't be so many missing and dead pit bulls and other animals.

Houston SPCA kicks out rescuers from Ford Center

The Houston SPCA is trying to deflect rumors about euthanasia. Sadly and tragically, most of the rumors you hear about Houston SPCA are true.

A Facebook effort was begun in 2012 to try and let people know the Houston SPCA kills all pit bulls. The page, No name pittie will die at Houston SPCA was started when a female stray pit bull was found by a Houston resident. The kindly samaritan gave the poor dog some water and called Houston SPCA, famous for their Animal Planet program. What he didn't know from their widely broadcast program was the Houston SPCA's long policy of killing all pit bulls or any puppy or dog who even look partly pit bull.

When Houston SPCA’s deadly intentions…innocent dog will die because she is a pit bull was written in March 2012, the Houston SPCA had 180 dogs on their website for adoption and not one was a pit bull. That figure, in a time when most U.S. shelters report anywhere from 40 to 75 percent intake are pit bull breeds, raised huge suspicions that the Houston SPCA which employs an armed staff had no pit bulls for adoption. Why? The answer is a horrible one. All puppies and dogs with pitty characteristics are killed.

Over the years, many articles and petitions asking for an investigation have been circulated. Nearly 13,000 signatures have been collected, but the pit bulls are still being killed.

Over this past weekend, rumors began to circulate when animals became missing at the Ford Center in Beaumont, Texas. When rescuers and other people who'd traveled from all over the United States to help the animals displaced by Hurricane Harvey, the Houston SPCA turned them away.

Best Friends, the nation's largest and most well-respected sanctuary for homeless pets was chased away by armed guards and the Houston SPCA. Here is Best Friends' statement:

"The Houston SPCA has a history of a lack of transparency around consistent reporting regarding the outcomes for the animals entering their care.  They have questionable policies regarding pit bull type dogs and have received continued criticism from the animal welfare community around these policies. So it’s understandable that the rescue community and other pet-loving members of the public, aware of the Houston SPCA’s history, would be worried about what was taking place with the pets in Beaumont."

Best Friends' petition begs the Houston SPCA director, Patti Mercer, to reconsider. Patti Mercer kills pit bulls and other innocent animals.

We could have told Best Friends to save the ink. Hill's Science Diet is one of Houston SPCA's most loyal donors and also the owner of one of the nation's largest rendering plants. "Most pet food companies are owned by global conglomerates such as Procter & Gamble, maker of Eukanuba and Iams, Colgate-Palmolive, maker of Hill’s “Science” Diet, and Mars, which produces Cesardog foods."

See: Dog's Naturally article "Rendered Products in Pet Food.

When you see the organized response to outcry over Houston SPCA's killing animals, there is method to the madness. Houston SPCA has been killing pit bulls for years. There is a reason there were no pit bulls featured in their Animal Planet Houston Animal Cops long running program. There is a reason rescues in the Houston area go ballistic trying to help a stray dog before Houston SPCA gets to the dog first. There is a reason Best Friends Animal Society has organized an effort to raise awareness with blogs and a petition.

Houston SPCA is a privately funded 501(c)3 with over 20 million dollars in tax-free revenue:


The Houston SPCA will kill all of the pit bulls. That is a fact. They have it down to a science, just like the Science Diet pet food which renders pets into pet food.

Please be aware of the goings on behind the doors at Houston SPCA where pit bulls are all killed. These pets cannot speak for themselves. We must, as caring humans, speak for them. It is our duty.

Please sign petitions:


Demand Houston SPCA Save Hurricane Harvey Animals

Petition to fire Patti Mercer and Investigate Houston SPCA
Please visit Facebook Page: No Name Pittie will die at Houston SPCA
 

Senior pit bulls walk for homeless dogs in San Francisco

Buster

This September, senior dogs from all over the bay area will be strutting to raise awareness for homeless pets. Reunion Rescue has been saving San Francisco bay area pit bulls from death row for over 15 years.

Not all of the wonderful dogs we've saved are still with us, but we will be remembering them in a special Hope Memorial walk. Hope passed away several months ago and her mom, Pam, has created a memorial walk for her. Anyone who's loved and lost a pet can join us in this walk. We will be writing the names of those who've passed on our commemorative tee shirts.

Maisie

September 21 at Treasure Island will certainly be a splendid day. When all the media seems to only

want to cover bad pit bull stories, Reunion Rescue's senior and other canine good citizens will be showing the world what wonderful dogs pit bulls are.

Along the way, Reunion Rescue created Animals First Rescue for the dogs like Teddy, a blind and deaf cocker spaniel who was going to be killed at San Francisco Animal Control and Alibaba, a registered Siamese cat whose owner passed away from HIV complications and the program whose mission to take care of HIV related issues, left him to die at SFACC.

Sasha, Percy and Russell

We'll be joined by Buddy, Griffie, Lola, Lexi, Allie and many others. We are waiting to hear from Kirbee, a beautiful senior Golden Retriever who was saved in the nick of time from being put to sleep. Hopefully, one of our oldest and dearest, Mia will join us with her mom, Emily. Fingers crossed.

Chino was running down Dolores and had to be darted when impounded. The minute his stray period was up, he was condemned to die. Reunion pulled Chino and he has never once left the side of his best friend, David.

Not all of the Reunion Rescue dogs are senior citizens, but won't it be a wonderful sight to watch these dogs in their golden years advocating for so many who probably won't live through their first year.

Sasha, Russell and Percy are resting up for the big walk.

Lenny

Reunion Rescue needs strutters and you don't have to have a senior pet or even a pit bull to strut with us this year. You don't even have to attend. You and your pet can create a virtual strut page and help us save that next life.

Please visit our Strut Your Mutt page and consider helping Reunion Rescue save lives. We need you to let them know....somebody loves them.

We will have some newbies walking with us like Buster Posey who was just pulled from Solano ACC. Reunion Rescue has long been a bay area refuge for unwanted pit bulls and others. Please join us this year to help homeless pets everywhere and to save that next Reunion Rescue dog.

Reunion Rescue Strut Your Mutt San Francisco:

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

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.

Something to blog about...pit bulls

Walking the pitties today was more than enormous! We got Tex and Guido and Peanut and Amber walked while BeBe and Vinny got yard time. Wilco went to the lake for a little r and r with Scott. Boy, looking at these pictures, I love what I do. No amount of stress and negativity can get near what these wonderful dogs do for my soul. I am grateful to have these babies in my life and the wonderful volunteers who come to walk the dogs.

We love you here at Reunion Rescue. Thank you for helping us get geared up for our big event in September. By then, I just bet some of these beautiful dogs are adopted into their own raw feeding holistic leash and crate trained homes. I sure hope their new families will want to strut their mutts with us at Mueller Park in Austin or even in San Francisco at Treasure Island. All the details are on the Reunion Rescue website.

If you love dogs like we do here at Reunion, take a look at some of the Facebook pages created for these beautiful dogs in our care.

Nolan and Lulu

Wilco

Peanut

Vinny and Guido

Hildi

Amber

BeBe

Little Cayenne

Princess

We love dogs at Reunion Rescue. I'm looking at some tuckered out individuals this evening. What a joyful sight!

Help us save lives by walking your own dog

Reunion Rescue is strutting across the nation to save lives .... one dog at a time!

LuLu and Nolan are ready to strut!!

For over 15 years, Reunion Rescue has been saving pit bulls and now has the refuge to prove it. Reunion Rescue operates the only no kill raw feeding holistic refuge for pit bulls in the world. We need help to keep things running.

Each dog costs about $250 a month for upkeep, toys, treats, food, medical, herbal and homeopathic support. Plus, we're trying to buy a van so we can take our beautiful healthy happy pit bulls to events and show the world just how magnificent these former abused dogs are.

We are strutting in Austin, Texas:

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

and in San Francisco, California:

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

Peanut says, 'hey, let's strut!'

Please consider walking your dog to help us save more homeless pets. You can do a virtual walk and ask your friends to help out! Anything helps.

Please join us so there will be no more homeless pets, inAustin, in San Francisco or anywhere else.

Please check out the links and consider walking your pet for Reunion Rescue. We need volunteers to help us walk the dogs and share the news. You can volunteer for Reunion Rescue from anywhere in the world...contact doggirl1@earthlink.net or visit our website http://www.reunionrescue.com and click the Get Involved tab.