Showing posts with label Solano County. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Solano County. Show all posts

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!


Thursday, August 15, 2013

Saving Pokey and Princess...how rescue works

Princess
Reunion Rescue pulled Princess from high kill Moreno Valley shelter. She was 7 and blind. The
Pokey
minute she was safely out of the shelter and placed into boarding, Princess, like so many valley dogs, came down with distemper.

The boarding facility was forced to quarantine her and she has needed three months of very expensive medication to treat the illness. Reunion Rescue was already stressed financially, but Princess's illness has really put Reunion in the red.

Yesterday, we were contacted by a long time adopter who's 4 year old son found a stray pit bull. They had hoped the puppy would be adopted, but once at the shelter, he contracted a severe case of kennel cough. We managed to save him in the nick of time and get him into foster care. His name is Pokey.

Pokey has a vet appointment today and we're hoping it's just that, a bad case of kennel cough and not a severe illness like Princess's distemper.

Reunion is filled to the brim with Texas and Cali dogs right now at the refuge and can't handle another
huge expense.

We've created Pokey a chip in fund to raise money for his vet and spay/neuter expenses.

http://www.youcaring.com/nonprofits/rescue-pokey/79757

Both Princess and Pokey have Facebook pages where we post their updates and up to date costs for care:

Pokey's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rescue-Pokey/621127397909191

Princess's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SavingPrincess

We have 16 dogs in our care at Reunion Rescue right now. We cannot do this work without your support. Please share these and all our other dogs's stories and consider a small donation to keep us up and running.

Please stop by and visit Nolan, LuLu, BeBe, Amber, Hildi, Vinny, Guido, Peanut, William, Cayenne and all the others.

All donations can be made on our website:

http://www.reunionrescue.com

While our our page, check out some of our happy health dogs up for adoption. We are participating in Best Friends Strut Your Mutt Austin, TX and San Francisco, CA this year. Please share and strut your mutt to help homeless dogs.....you can even strut virutally for $10!