Austin Pets Alive! | THANK YOU

Jan 09, 2024

1/19 Replace!

This previous week’s excessive climate turned the catalyst for an outpouring of affection and help that supplied enormous wins for our group, however extra importantly, for the animals in our care! And it’s YOU, our excellent neighborhood, that we have now to thank for that. Our hearts are full and our canine and cats stayed heat, and now, many who went into heat properties “quickly” are staying in these properties as both long run fosters and even getting households to name their very personal!

Final week, ATX and past, you helped us fully filter out the put up parvo puppies, in addition to each single one among our barn cat enclosures! You took 225 canine into your properties, together with 2 mamas and their nursing pups and seven orphaned puppies who require being fed through bottle! Of these canine, 58 — FIFTY EIGHT, have been lengthy stays, that means they’ve been in our look after 300+ days! 

Mates, you made the choice to make 75 cats a part of your loved ones, and opened your properties to 68 cats who wanted a foster.

You joined us in our mission to assist all Central Texas pets in want. Your financial donations and items of provides not solely supported our wants proper right here at dwelling, but additionally helped us drive over 1,000 miles to ship provides deeply wanted to maintain pets heat throughout Texas and even choose up 15+ in danger canine who wanted folks to step as much as foster them till adoption.

Despite the fact that we noticed a number of days of temperatures under freezing, it was exhausting for us to really feel chilly as a result of our neighborhood embraced our pets and our mission with the heat of 1000 suns. You’re the purpose we’re in a position to hold saving lives and there are not any phrases to explain that gratitude.

WINS:

Cleared parvo of unfavorable pups

225 canine in properties

• 163 canine left on s/o

• 50 canine to foster

  • 2 mothers and nursing pups

  • 7 BBs

• 12 canine adopted

58 Lengthy stays (300+ days)

All barn cats adopted out

68 cats to foster

105 cat adoptions between 1/10 and 1/15

30 of these adoptions have been Barn Cat Adoptions

17 of these adoptions have been Medical Seek the advice of Adoptions

1500 emergency foster apps submitted

15+ pets pulled into security

~1,000 miles to drop off provides and choose up animals!

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1/15 Replace! 

A whole lot of pets awakened this morning in heat properties because of the superb help of our neighborhood. Fosters and adopters stepped up and answered the decision when our pets wanted it probably the most. Over the previous few days, all 30 of our barn cats have been adopted and we have been capable of finding heat properties for 175 canine that have been housed in out of doors kennels, that means simply 55 stay on the shelter. In a single day, we bundled up our remaining canine with extra blankets and coats, and turned on our heaters, warmth lamps, monitored the temperature inside their bedrooms, and closed in our partitions with windbreaker covers to maintain within the heat. Right now, as we observe MLK day, we shall be closed to the general public however could have employees onsite offering continued care to our animals and have appointments to put extra canine into properties.

As winter temps stay under freezing, our lifesaving work continues. We’ve got acquired pleas from South Texas shelters needing to save lots of animals from euthanasia. We at the moment have 26 canine who want fosters by 1/18 who can look after them till adoption. By stepping as much as foster one among these canine, you instantly save their life.  You can find an inventory of those canine on our APA! Foster Wants Fb put up. These canine’ present shelters have shared most of them have been good with different canine. We additionally proceed to want your help with the donations record under. 

We’re pleased with what we, collectively as a neighborhood, are in a position to accomplish for our pets in want. We sincerely thanks to your help, donations, and for opening up your hearts and houses.

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1/14 Replace: 

Thanks to your overwhelming help for our pets throughout this winter freeze. To date, we have now positioned over 184 animals, and counting, into properties, with solely about 76 left on the shelter! Please proceed to take a look at different wants under.

At this level, we’re working by means of foster appointments immediately to seek out as many properties as doable by the tip of immediately and are searching for those that can decide to fostering long run or stay in a house with out different pets or youngsters. A few of our canine require particular properties and further care, so we admire your endurance and dedication to assist. So in case you signed as much as foster and would not have an appointment immediately, meaning we’re engaged on inserting canine with different candidates. As an emergency response foster, your willingness to assist will put together us for upcoming emergencies. Our group will contact you within the following weeks to get you absolutely signed up and prepared for the subsequent name.

Thanks once more to our pet-loving neighborhood members. We’re immensely grateful and humbled by all of the individuals who signed as much as foster, those that donated much-needed provides and cash, and our employees and volunteers who labored tirelessly to get our pets into properties. 

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We want
your assist this week! The Austin and surrounding areas are anticipated to
attain freezing temperatures this weekend so out of doors animals need assistance by
this Sunday! Right here’s how one can help them NOW.

Enroll as an emergency response canine foster.  Momentary fosters not wanted! See long run foster wants above.

Our first precedence is to get the out of doors enclosure animals on the APA! City Lake shelter in heat properties. We’ve got 230
canine who instantly want a heat place to remain. There are alternatives our
foster group will focus on with you, whether or not you may solely assist for brief
intervals at a time or have extra availability for a home visitor.

Undertake barn cats. Barn cats all adopted!

We
have 30 cats able to give you the results you want in trade for getting out of the
chilly this week! APA! barn cats are feral cats saved from being
euthanized and adopted to households who admire working cats for
critter patrol and might present a secure, applicable surroundings akin to a
barn, steady, storage, or warehouse. Click on right here in case you may help!

Donate provides or monetarily.

In the event you can’t open your private home to a pet, you may assist us hold them secure
by donating to assist with our operations and chilly climate shelter
preparations. Make a financial reward right here or donate any of the next provides:

Provides wanted for Austin Pets Alive! City Lake campus (have the provides shipped to us at 1156 W Cesar Chavez St, Austin, TX 78703 or drop off in entrance of Constructing C any time this week):

transportable charging station

headlamps

pet system 

medium and huge popup crates

Assist Different Texas Out of doors Shelter Animals in Want!

The next shelters additionally need assistance so we’re extending
their asks. Please have donations shipped instantly too them or go to
them in individual/ask buddies or household within the space to come back assist
them too!

San Benito – 789 Garrison Drive, San Benito TX 78586

Wants: blankets, warmth lamps, vaccines, dewormer, parvo assessments

San Diego – 804 E. Juanita St., San Diego TX 78384

Wants: Canine adopters/fosters (URGENT as they should
euthanize forward of this weekend’s chilly if not in properties), any chilly
climate provides

Devine – 303 S. Teel Drive, Devine TX 78016

Wants: blankets, heaters; canine adopters/fosters

Dilley – Metropolis Corridor, 116 East Miller Dilley, TX 78017 Omar Hernandez Animal Management

Wants: heating mats, heaters, tarps

Luling + Laurie’s Rescue – Luling Animal Welfare Society 1800 E. Pierce St., Luling, TX 78648

Wants: Blankets, 1-2 massive canine homes, sweatshirts for medium/massive canine

Palm Valley – 2501 west Trenton street, Edinburg, Tx 78539

Wants: canine adopters/fosters, heated mats and heating pads

Hondo – 407 Harper, Hondo TX 78861

Wants: tarps, blankets, warmth lamps, heating pads, canine beds, 1-2 canine homes

Calvert – Justine VanMetre 808 pin oak st Calvert,TX 77837

Wants: canine jackets/sweaters, blankets, plastic canine homes
or something offering a border to keep away from direct wind(solely have roof),
something warmth emitting.

Mission – Large Spring Shelter Canine, C/O Montana Gray 600 Lamesa Hwy, Large Spring, TX 79720

Wants: blankets and meals, primarily moist meals

Gonzalez – Gonzales Canine Adoption, Keiko McCormick 204 County Highway 442, Hardwood, TX, 78632

Wants: blankets, tarps

Assist pets the place you’re keep heat.

Learn and share this guidelines to guard pets the place you’re.

✔ Carry pets inside. The very best factor you
can do to your pet is to carry them inside with you. Whereas some breeds
of canine are extra tolerant of chilly climate than others, and cats are
recognized to have a neater time adjusting to excessive climate, no pet ought to
be left exterior for lengthy intervals of time when it’s under freezing
(32ºF). You recognize your pet greatest, so be vigilant about looking ahead to indicators
of their chilly tolerance and restrict out of doors actions accordingly.

✔ Verify your automobile for cats. Our feline
buddies like to cover from this climate in automobile engines and/or wheel
wells, so thump the hood of your automobile just a few occasions and verify your wheels
for stowaways earlier than you begin the engine and take off.

✔ Present a makeshift enclosure for
out of doors animals. In the event you’ve observed out of doors cats or different animals in your
neighborhood affected by the chilly (shaking, curled up, and so on.) and also you
are frightened about them, create a makeshift shelter for them to remain heat
in. A closed field or Rubbermaid bin with a minimize out within the facet, with
straw or mylar blankets (material can maintain moisture and freeze over so we
not suggest utilizing towels or blankets), will assist hold them secure
within the frigid temperatures. Click on right here for instance instructions for cat shelters from Alley Cat Advocates and click on right here for extra on what to do for canine within the chilly from Finest Mates.

✔ Or take into account opening your storage barely (and leaving a heating pad or warmth lamp on) to let cats in from the chilly.

✔ Put a sweater in your pup. If in case you have a
canine with a brief coat, you may hold them a bit extra insulated by 
placing a sweater or canine coat on them. Make sure the sweater and coat are
fully dry for every outing, although, as damp or moist outerwear might
truly make them chillier.

✔ Verify paws. After out of doors exercise,
verify your pet’s paws for any indicators of cracking on the paw pads, redness
between toes, or bleeding. Wipe them down after every outing, too, to
take away any salt, ice, or chemical compounds.

For metropolis details about chilly climate shelters and warming facilities, go to www.austintexas.gov/alerts.

Need assistance with a neighborhood pet? E mail [email protected].
P.A.S.S. connects you to neighborhood member help for emergency pet
meals, pet useful resource help, and different emergency pet assist.