Hillbilly Shining

A few years ago, I, like so many other rescues hit a real rough spot. I got audited for two years and the I.R.S. came into my home...yeah, dumb me...for 8 months. Because I'm honest to a fault, I had years of receipts dated and itemized for dog and cat food, supplies, treats, leashes, vet bills, boarding, you name it.

Reunion Rescue takes a lickin'

The I.R.S. had a field day. The last day the agent was here...and she made me crate up the pit bulls as, like most, terrified of pit bulls....well, the last day, she let me in on a little heart to heart. I had been so stupid, actually fixing her lunch and getting her liquid refreshments, water, coffee, tea. She told me she'd run over and killed her kids pet cat and lied to them about it.

The decision was handed down and some huge arbitrary amount was given to me to pay. The unbelievable angle was I didn't even make that amount those two years. On a side note, 8.5 years later, the state of California re-adjusted my taxes and let me know last December that I owed an additional 1600 dollars. They'd neglected to mention it for all these years, but

and Reunion Rescue keeps on tickin'

did add an additional four thousand one hundred and twenty five dollars in penalties and fines. Shouldn't they penalize themselves for not noticing for 8 and a half years? Oboy.

Here I am sitting in the midst of a house filled with California dogs and being hijacked by the state. Thanks a heap!

We have a landscape business and it's hard to make a living during drought and other weather issues like heat waves, frost, etc. We manage though and just like Reunion Rescue, somehow put one foot in front of the other and get through it.

During that terrible time and over the course of four years, I submitted four complicated and massive offers in compromise to the I.R.S. Finally, they accepted the fourth and I'm currently satisfying my debt with the government.

When that was going on, I re-modified my house payments, declared bankruptcy and kept rescuing all the while. I get over four thousand emails and messages a day, many of which come from hoarders and rescues shutting down and getting rid of house fulls of animals. To Reunion Rescue's credit, we never rehomed or altered our standards one iota during this awful time. I continued to save animals and each is safe in a forever home to this day.

Reunion Rescue rescue dogs

Around the third submission of my offer in compromise, a man distraught by taxes and grief plowed his airplane into the I.R.S. building on Research Blvd. here in Austin. This sort of pressure causes those with less fortitude to succumb to hopelessness. I saw people have their homes foreclosed and lose their pets during this terrible time.

Well, we were terribly broke. I couldn't leave the animals to get a day job, so I took a job at La Quinta as the graveyard room clerk. That experience nearly killed me. I was working during the day here with the animals and our landscape business, then all night long at La Quinta. It was a trying experience to say the least.

After a night of dealing with drunks and leaks and power outages, I then had to prepare rubber egg patties and the breakfast buffet. The smell of those eggs was nauseating. Driving home was a challenge and I fell asleep at the wheel more than once.

I was recently involved in a lawsuit in which the person's lawyer committed what's called 'civil

More Reunion dogs

extortion' and threatened to embarrass Cindy Marabito if she didn't back down. What came after was something like 250 pages of complaint. As tedious as it was, I still wondered what the judge must have been thinking about when he was reading the list of our tired inventory. Old, beat up couches...remember, I am in rescue..to broken down old backpack sprayers. I said I was honest to a fault and had listed every paperback book, toothpick, towel...stuff nobody, even me, cared about. Imagine my surprise to see my dirty laundry listed in boring detail. Boy! Was I embarrassed!

Everyone has troubles. To be able to get through life and remember that is key. I'm very lucky. I don't think I could have lived with myself had I ever given up any of the animals. My advice to anyone out there who's facing hardship as I did is to keep the faith. Those animals are depending on us. We are all they have. And what they give us back...well, you can't put a price tag on.

In my book, Pit Bull Nation, I quote a tea bag which got me through some rough spots. It said, 'know that you can move through any tide.' And I know that.

Thank you from Reunion Rescue for giving me the opportunity to serve God's beautiful creatures.

Director of imedia ethics terrifies Reunion Rescue adopters with threats

Reunion Rescue adopters are terrified regarding threats from imedia - the group which shut down American Pit Bull Examiner and had Reunion Rescue director fired.

According to concerned Reunion Rescue adopters, Rhonda Shearer has stated she and her group are going after Reunion Rescue.

According to the adopters, Shearer made accusations of hoarding, animal abuse and neglect along with veiled threats of investigation in her/imedia

Two police reports have been filed and one with the Travis County Sheriff's Department for harassment.

Should any Reunion Rescue adopters receive threats from imedia, Rhonda Shearer or any of the pit bull hate groups posting on the imedia page, notify us at once.

The authorities are aware of this harassment and will deal with offenses accordingly. Hundreds of posts, shares and likes have been registered on the site, many belonging to suspicious individuals belonging to groups with anti-pit bull leanings. This terrible effort to shut down Reunion Rescue, a pit bull rescue group with nearly two decades of exemplary rescue efforts and hundreds of dogs and animals placed in wonderful homes, is illegal and harassment.

Please sign and share the PETITION demanding an investigation into these events at once!

Hate group keeps Austin really weird!!!!

Kills her own dogs at high kill shelter after letting one's tail rot off:

Stalks Reunion Rescue for years and finally latches on to LuLu, a Reunion Rescue dog..publishing lies about Reunion Rescue AND LuLu...on a fake page....LuLu never HAD heartworms and was not in the possession of some 'long lost owner'..the whole thing is a HOAX!

Not only libels and lies about Reunion Rescue, but attacks the boarding facility which helps Austin's homeless pets:

Let's not forget Rudo, a dog from this person's own community who was killed after this person and her 'group' sabotaged Rudo's fundraiser and frightened away the Oakland rescue who was set to pull Rudo. Rudo was killed with no options...after this gang chased away his own chance to live.

 

This fundraiser for Rudo was organized by a longtime REAL Austin Animal Center volunteer...who was SO attacked and bad mouthed, the Fundraiser people at YOUCARING attacking this person day and night over the false accusations from the hate group, the fundraiser was closed and all monies returned. 

...and had the gaul to post on the fundraiser she helped to kill along with Rudo:

The gang has grown to include many affiliated with Austin Animal Center.....there will be many questions to ask and this angry mob...growing by the second...might just get the investigation they're gunning for.....fraud, theft, advising a 'Jane Doe' to kill a healthy animal, might be a shoe that fits the foot with the big fat mouth...

One thing's for sure, these questions WILL be answered.

How much damage can a bunch of nasty old ladies and a few useless creeps that hang out on hate pages with filthy pictures of Jesus do? Well, ask Rudo, ask Charlie and God knows how many other animals who've lost their lives thanks to this hate mob. LuLu is safe and yes, we DID spend $10,000 to get our dog back and wasted an entire month which could have been spent saving lives ... lives that were lost thanks to Austin Animal Center and this hate gang they've cultivated....Keep Austin weird...I don't think so.

Personally, I prefer the old Austin with LIVE animals.

Why is Nathan Winograd teaming up with Spindletop dog killers? No kill meets real kill!

Imagine the horror when this come-on appeared in my email box? Knowing that 'Texas Dog Commission' is an outfit run by Zandra Anderson, close friend and legal counsel for Leah Purcell and the animal abusers and killers from Spindletop.

Does Nathan Winograd know who he's dealing with here? Has he not heard of Spindletop? These evil animal killers never did a day of hard time and are out walking around and boarding more animals while those of us who lost pets at Spindletop still grieve for their wrongful deaths and disappearances.

Craig Malisow's brilliant piece 'No Sanctuary at Spindletop' reads like a horrible monster movie of the worst kind with lurid tales of sex offenders plowing a hammer into the heads of Rottweilers and other despicable acts which occurred at the former 'refuge' located on Calvary Road in Willis, Texas.

A Facebook page has been created to honor those animals murdered and gone from the house of horrors formerly called 'Spindletop Refuge' called Spindletop Missing and Dead Dogs. Zandra Anderson who collects donations without benefit of a 501(c)(3) non-profit has threatened Reunion Rescue repeatedly with false claims to the Examiner in an effort to quiet the truth. When our articles were illegally pulled based on Anderson's threats to sue, we republished a series of articles (see below) in an effort to seek justice, justice that the hundreds and perhaps thousands of dogs killed by Leah Purcell will never be afforded.

In a later piece, a former manager at Spindletop stepped forward to report the mass loading of innocent dogs sent to board at Spindletop loaded up on U-Haul trucks and taken to off-site locations to be 'disposed of.'

A fellow rescuer who had animals disappear and presumed killed received this answer from Nathan Winograd's No Kill Nation when she asked for help with the Spindletop mass murder:

"I emailed them back when when all this was going on and they responded that they were not releasing any information because it would only feed the drama and their only interest was in keeping the dogs safe. They would not give me any information on the dogs at all."

Please write to Nathan Winograd and ask him to reconsider aligning himself with people who not only condone animal abuse and murder, but defend and friend others who have made a fortune doing so.

http://doggirlpitbull.blogspot.com/2012/08/spindletop-dog-killers-try-to-shut-down.html 

http://doggirlpitbull.blogspot.com/2012/08/texas-dog-lawyer-rebuttal-2.html 

http://doggirlpitbull.blogspot.com/2012/08/rebuttal-texas-dog-lawyer-part-3.html

http://doggirlpitbull.blogspot.com/2012/08/telling-truth-republish-inside-living.html

http://doggirlpitbull.blogspot.com/2012/08/hoarding-for-dollars-reprint-of-article.html

http://doggirlpitbull.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-following-reprint-is-story-of.html

http://doggirlpitbull.blogspot.com/2012/08/reprint-spindletop-raidwhere-are-our.html

http://doggirlpitbull.blogspot.com/2012/08/truth-be-toldlast-reprint.html

http://doggirlpitbull.blogspot.com/2012/08/caring-for-spindletop-refugees.html

http://doggirlpitbull.blogspot.com/2012/09/reunion-rescue-spindletop-refugees.html

http://doggirlpitbull.blogspot.com/2013/12/liars-lawyers-death-abuse-dog-killers.html

What is Austin Animal Center so scared of?

Chris Noble @ Austin Animal Center

Holli Odom of Austin Animal Center

Austin Animal Center has a new boss lady and just pulled down all the threads related to LuLu, our Reunion Rescue dog Austin Animal Center totally bungled...and tried to throw Cindy Marabito in jail for requesting a meeting. Chris Noble and compadre Holli Odom totally screwed the pooch on this one with links to the two losing their tempers on the job.

Well, we got our dog LuLu back after a month-long investigation and legal maneuverings that cost $10,000.

Does Austin Animal Center think they can just wave a magic wand and this will all go away?

Do they thing at Austin Animal Center they can just delete the commentary and posts and escape scot-free?

Did they forget Reunion Rescue rescues pit bulls..the very dog that Austin Animal Center counter person stated, "EWWWWWWWW they rescue pit bulls!" over the phone to Beverly Phillips when we were at the 'shelter' with proof of ownership under Texas State Law?

Austin Animal Center tried to step outside the law with microchip info that even according to Home Again, is not legal pet ownership. The representative at Home Again also revealed Austin Animal Center is not covering the $17.99 microchip charge with Austin Animal Center adoptions turning up lost and their chips not updated. These are chips paid to the city of Austin by citizens in good faith for animals adopted from Austin Animal Center.

Each day, more is revealed in the LuLu story with a hoax page set up to hold LuLu hostage with links back to Austin Animal Center and pit bull hate groups.

This Monday, July 7, we will begin yet another legal battle to get to the bottom of this nasty sordid affair with threats, attacks and lies all stemming back to Austin Animal Center.

Please share our chip in fundraiser for LuLu and help Reunion Rescue recover the $10,000 lost/wasted to recover LuLu and have the city of Austin answer for their crimes.

Here are the saved screen shots of the hate fest hosted by Austin Animal Center and it's angry, very angry staff...a staff that Reunion Rescue and other citizens pay and pay well to care for the city's animals.