Jun 10, 2022
The Nationwide Climate Service has issued a warmth advisory for the Austin space, with temperatures anticipated to achieve harmful and lethal ranges.
With forecasted highs above 105 levels Saturday and Sunday, we’re activating emergency measures to maintain our animals secure within the excessive climate circumstances. Right now we’re additionally urgently asking on your assist!
As essential members of the APA! group, we’re dedicated to holding you conscious of our preparedness plans, prime priorities, and what we want most to proceed our lifesaving work:
Undertake or Foster At present!
With the pressure the intense warmth places on our animals, employees, services, and the facility grid, we’re urgently asking on your assist now to get our animals out of the shelter earlier than temperatures attain the best ranges anticipated. We’re calling on you to assist us get 70 of our most susceptible animals into properties earlier than Sunday! Now we have each adoption and fostering choices obtainable and to assist expedite our efforts to get animals into properties we’re waiving adoption charges* till June sixteenth for ALL our pets. This supply contains the almost 40 lovely puppies onsite at TLAC. Go to our City Lake location between midday and 6 p.m. Friday or Saturday to assist get a pet in a house. No appointment is required!
Donate to Assist Our Lifesaving Work By this Emergency and Past!
We’re calling on everybody to guard the animals who want them most throughout this excessive warmth. The common temperature in Austin in June is 93 levels with a soar to 98 levels in August. With thermometers hovering greater than 10 levels larger in early June, some climate consultants are anticipating that the summer time of 2022 is on observe to interrupt data.
The brutally scorching temperatures deliver a plethora of issues for our shelter: rising electrical energy prices, time beyond regulation for employees, and a rise in provide wants that transcend the cooling tools generously donated previously. For the reason that warmth wave just isn’t restricted to Central Texas, we’re additionally offering assist to companion shelters throughout the state.
As you obtain this e-mail, our groups are utilizing mister followers and swamp coolers generously donated by buddies such as you to deliver some aid to our canine in kennels. We’re additionally utilizing swamp coolers and child swimming pools in our play yards and making room within our buildings for animals struggling of their kennels. We’re additionally putting mister followers and extra sunshades close to the cat barns. Ice packs and ice water are being put out for barn and truckport cats, and common rounds are happening 24/7 to observe all animals.
Along with your assist, we will present our animals with the very best care throughout this hazardous Texas warmth proper now and all through what could possibly be an especially scorching summer time. Will you donate to assist us at this time?
Lastly, try our weblog publish with our scorching climate suggestions to make sure that the pets in your house and neighborhood are staying secure.
To remain updated on our excessive climate response efforts, test our weblog and social media for the newest information. Thanks for every thing you do for our most susceptible pets. Keep secure and funky Austin!
