Found a pit bull..or some other dog or animal?

 Reunion Rescue has been saving lives from horrible situations and death row shelters for coming up on 25 years! So we've learned a thing or two. Do you see these animals dying in shelters every day? So do I and I'm sick and tired of it, too. It seems like the harder we work, the worse the situation becomes. 

Just yesterday, a wonderful woman all the way out in California, her own zip code in the midst of over-filled stressed shelter is reaching out, begging for help for a sweet little young chow mix in San Antonio.

We want to help. Reunion's full of all our oldies right now along with a cat sanctuary and birds....not to mention all the wildlife. And we just took on the hardest pit bull rescue in all my time saving dogs. We literally cannot leave town. When we committed to this dog, it was a prison sentence. We're under house arrest, but making strides each day. We chose this life.

Here is the link to Found Pit Bulls on Reunion Rescue website. There is so much information on the site that I often have to pay for out of my social security check. It's important to me to convey this life saving information to pet owners, other rescues, shelters and all animal lovers to use our life-saving resources and help keep animals out of shelters. Be sure to check out the Health Page with tips on how we treat everything from kennel cough to giardia, heartworm to hip dysplasia with herbs and homeopathy. Rarely do we ever have to visit a conventional vet.

On our new page Found Pit Bulls we tell you what to do when you find a dog - or cat - in distress. We just helped a woman who had a very pregnant pit bull dumped on her with these same easy tips on the page. And now we're sharing with you, so please feel free to cross-post this blog with your animal-loving friends. It's time for a change in the way we treat animals in this country.

Update: Austin cruelty case dogs .... neighbors save the day!

5 of the Austin cruelty case dogs were impounded by Austin Animal Services yesterday, but one is still on the loose. Miss P, as the goodhearted neighbors who are responsible for saving these dogs are calling her is a bit skittish and evaded capture.

According to KXAN, five of the dogs are being held for a cruelty investigation at Austin Animal Services, but foster families are being sought.

Reunion Rescue will step up for these dogs, but must have solid foster commitments to help.

While Reunion Rescue refuge is overfull right now, we have a great foster to adopt program and are the only raw feeding holistic no kill pit bull refuge in the world...right here in Austin, Texas. We want to help these dogs.

Reunion Rescue is walking in Best Friends Strut Your Mutt Austin. If at all possible, we'd like to get these dogs into foster homes and vetted so they could participate in this event. What better opportunity to meet potential new families and raise awareness to animal abuse and homeless pets than these lovely dogs walking for other homeless pets?

Please take a look at Reunion Rescue's website  Health Page and Training Page and think about becoming a foster home for one of these lovely dogs.

Contact doggirl1@earthlink.net with any questions about our program. Details about these 6 dogs and progress reported on our Facebook pages and in this blog.

5 cruelty case dogs abandoned in world's music capital

Austin, Texas has come to be known as the music capital of the world, but soon could be eclipsed as the global center for abandoned dogs.

Yesterday was a record day for Reunion Rescue. I get about 4,000 emails per day, many of them dealing with abandoned and stray pit bulls. Without my own tv show or government funding, it's difficult to answer every call, but I try to do my best.

A woman called about a situation in her neighborhood. She was trying to help a neighbor's dog who keeps escaping the yard when she discovered five beautiful dogs so thin they could barely stand up.

With temperatures over 100 each day, these dogs were delegated to the backyard as so many seem to be in Austin. Reunion Rescue is suffering from extremely low adoptions specifically due to so many dog owners who leave their pets in the backyard. Reunion has a policy to only adopt to crate training homes.

When Kimberly followed the neighbor's dog down the street, she came upon this situation. Horrified, she called Austin Animal Center 311 to report the abuse and was told they couldn't address the cruelty complaint until the next day.

"The neighbor at 6211 has not seen the 6213 neighbors in about 2-3 weeks. There have been no cars out front for some time now. The water to the house has been turned off. There is no mail in the mailbox. Trash is everywhere in the sideyards. No one has answered the door in 2 weeks. Living room furniture and a cat can be seen through the window by the front door. That window is open about 6-8 inches."

"There is no foul odor, but the cat desperately wants attention. I did see a couple of flies. However, that would be expected in Austin in September. We slipped the cat a little food through a small tear found in the window screen. Rescue groups for the dogs are being contacted. Two other neighbors and I fed the dogs last night. One of those neighbors helped me feed the dogs and the small cat this morning.

After taking photos and a video, we uploaded to Facebook and the community began to step up. Reunion's full and can't take on any more dogs, but we've already had one person offer to foster. Just think. If four other foster homes could become available, we could begin to raise the necessary funds to vet and care for these dogs and show them off at Strut Your Mutt this year.

Reunion Rescue is walking in Strut Your Mutt Austin, Texas at Mueller Park September 28. Please comment on the Facebook page if you might be interested in helping one of these dogs.

Neighbors are throwing food over the fence and waiting for animal control to come help these dogs. Austin Animal Center is super full right now as the new facility doesn't hold as many dogs as the old Town Lake Shelter held.

Reunion Rescue has a dream to be able to save dogs, but it's a huge struggle. In our town and the rest of the nation, there is more supply than demand. Wouldn't it be nice if Austin were known as kindness to dogs capital of the world, too?