Rehab Your Rescue Behavior Services

11/11/2025

Five years. Holy s**t, how’d that happen?!

Happy birthday, Edmond Montgomery. You have made me a better trainer and more empathetic pet parent.

I am thankful everyday that you and I get to help dogs together!

06/09/2025

How do you say goodbye to a dog that you’ve spent a decade with? You do it selflessly, with a ton of pain and a vet team that has your dog’s best interest at heart.

Thursday, we noticed Hazel was acting flatter than usual. Friday morning, I picked her up and she was on fire. Temp was 103.4. Well s**t.

Off to Cityvet Whiterock where the amazing Dr. D and team went to work. Unfortunately, news wasn’t great… She had Immune-Mediated Hemolytic Anemia with a nodule on her spleen. The next 48 hrs were going to be critical… and well, she was gone before they were over.

Saturday, morning we went off to VEG and she was relatively stable. As long as she was drinking and eating. We had a chance.

Problem is she wasn’t eating. Threw up appetite stimulant. Had to be pilled for her meds. She was in a nose dive… I said all day she was leaving and I knew that I would be the one to send her on.

When Leti met me at VEG Saturday night, she gave me options… but she knew… I knew. We were in the middle of the treatment area and I broke. I have to say goodbye to my murder pup. I don’t get to do all the fun things… I don’t get to take a trip. I was mad. I am mad.

But, she asked to go and I said yes. DogDad came up with professor and in a private room with only people she knew and her best dog friend, we said goodbye.

My soul is raw and my heart is broken. My angry sentient mop who liked 3 people in the world beside DogDad and I had a meeting to go and it couldn’t wait. So she took the midnight train to meet her sister Fiona and to sit at the head of Murder Inc. Rest easy, chairman and keep that body count high. Momma’s got a list for you… love you.

06/04/2025

There is a notation that dogs will just adjust to the new baby in the house… and sometimes they do, but most of the time it is very stressful for the dogs (and the humans).

My pet parent, Dr. Meg and her hubby, worked hard to prep their loafs for the new addition. Including set ups for baby pictures. Dog and baby pics are adorable as long as we do them safely!

The corgis are tethered and Dr. Meg measured to make sure they couldn’t reach the Bebe.

I’m so proud of this crew and all the hard work. Do you have a baby on the way or know someone that does?! Send them my way and we will make sure their pup is ready to be a good big sibling!

05/23/2025

Fiona’s vet is the incomparable, Dr. Meladee Farr at Cityvet Whiterock. Let me tell you about Dr. Farr…

I met Dr Farr in tragedy when I found Dutchess flat out in our foyer. It was 2019. We had just moved from Forney and we didn’t have a vet established. Kelly Gray, my friend and rescue partner, called Dr Farr and asked her to see us.

My first introduction to Dr Farr was me flying into her clinic in panic… she met me with calm grace. Her and her tech, Liz, treated Dutchess and I like we have been coming there for the last 15 yrs. We ultimately lost Dutch that day… but the impression that Dr Farr and her team left on us has been permanent.

Dr Farr treated Fiona from the first day we got her. Helped us through managing her hip dysplasia and IVDD, treated her heart worms.

She helped us through almost losing her to Addison Crisis (which she diagnosed) and stabilizing her. Even reaching out to us to make sure that Fiona was doing okay while Dr. Farr had her own health stuff going on.

When we walked into to the clinic in Jan to discuss Fiona’s pain management… we didn’t know what to do. She was frank with us and said that it is okay to let her go at the top of her health and not wait till she was a shell of herself.

We moved Fiona to palliative care that day. But knew the one thing we wanted to do was take Fiona to the beach. We needed more time. A friend told us to try a certain med… we called Dr Farr. She researched, talked to colleagues and set a treatment plan for us. She even ordered the med in for us so we could stay at our home clinic.

Then we set a date. And I had the wild idea of letting Fiona go on the beach in Galveston. But there is no way I can let just anyone guide Fi out of this life… so I asked Dr Farr if she would join us. She said yes. She joined us on that beautiful spring day on the beach and laid our girl to rest.

Vet med is a thankless job. It is filled with distain and hatred. But Dr Farr is a bright shining beacon… and I’m so very blessed to call her my vet, my colleague and my friend.

Thank you will never ever be enough. For all you have done for our animals, the clients I send you and all of your patients.

05/21/2025

When we were chosen for a puppy from this litter, we knew it was going to be a girl… we preferred a blue, but temperament over color. We started brain storming names.

We have a silly naming convention and next up was H… so I wanted a silly name and threw out Hiccup. Forgetting about the boy from how to train your dragon.

Then as Fiona day grew closer… and we were pondering if we were going to get the blue girl in the litter and what we should name her… a wave came over me. I stopped cold and said to DogDad.

I know her name. Tears were in my eyes as he waited for me to speak and I simply said…. It’s Larry.

Then we both cried.

See, Fiona’s alter ego was Larry. It was the face she made when she didn’t want to do something or we refused her a snack. We’d say “oh Larry”. Or when she’d get impatient and bang down the gate, trotting down the stairs… we’d exclaim “Must you, Larry!”

Larry was the cheeky side of our girl Princess Fiona. So to pay honor for the legacy she leaves behind… her protege is Larry Hiccup.

She will be our Girl named Larry.

Larry girl, you have big paws to fill. But I have faith Fiona sent you and I can’t wait to meet you!!

04/19/2025