Partners
Austin Pets Alive! has established partnerships with local and national organizations to support its programming, refer and exchange services and share resources. Without the continued cooperation of these partners, our job would be much more difficult.
Town Lake Animal Center (TLAC)
Town Lake Animal Center (TLAC), the only open intake animal facility in Austin, admits more than 25,000 animals per year, including strays and owner surrenders. Roughly half of those animals are euthanized. In an attempt to lower these numbers, TLAC is working with Mission Orange and APA! to both decrease shelter intake and increase the number of live animals leaving the center. TLAC has many progressive programs such as free community spay/neuter, innovative Return to Owner policies that include fee waiver with spay/neuter, volunteer programs that enhance animal life in the shelter, community outreach programs, and rescue networking.
TLAC is the most important partner APA! has in the growth of the Animal Resource Center. APA! is working closely with TLAC, which has provided invaluable surrender trends and statistics, to identify ways of intervening before an animal is surrendered and improving the survival chances of animals slated for euthanasia.
ASPCA
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is partnering with APA! to find and create content for the Help Hotline that we plan to launch later this year. This Hotline will be devoted to helping pet owners with behavioral and medical issues that might otherwise cause the animal to end up at the shelter.
The ASPCA has also sponsored the attendance of four members of our behavioral team to a ASPCA SAFER training seminar that helps shelters assess dogs for aggression in a new and innovative way.
Austin Team Leader: Karen Medicus
Animal Trustees of Austin
Animal Trustees of Austin, Inc. (ATA) is a nonprofit animal welfare organization. ATA was founded by concerned citizens desiring to help lost, abused, and abandoned animals in Austin and surrounding counties. ATA is made up of staff and volunteers united by one common interest – the welfare of the animals. ATA operates a spay/neuter clinic, wellness clinic, and offers basic veterinary care. ATA has spayed/neutered over 75,000 animals in Austin since 1997 and offered wellness services to over 91,000 animals since 2002. ATA is a member of the ASPCA Mission Orange.
APA! is proud to be partnering with ATA to help animals that need more than just basic care. ATA will be handling heartworm treatments, fracture repairs, and other illnesses that APA! cannot accommodate at this time.
Executive Director: Missy McCollough
Administrator: Keni Galluci
Operations Director: Hyden Johnson
Emancipet
EMANCIPET is a nonprofit working to end the killing of homeless pets and promote the humane care and treatment of all pets. EMANCIPET’s services include providing low cost and free spay/neuters and wellness services to pet owners, shelters, and rescue groups, such as APA!.
EMANCIPET’s services are available through their stationary, mobile, or traveling ‘MASH”-style clinics. Currently, EMANCIPET is APA!’s primary provider for spay/neuter and veterinary care for the animals in our programs. Once the APA! Resource Center is functional, APA! hopes to contract with EMANCIPET to provide in-house spay/neuter and “work up” services.
EMANCIPET was established in 1999 by now APA! President Dr. Ellen Jefferson. Over the years, EMANCIPET has safely spayed or neutered more than 100,000 cats and dogs – saving countless lives. EMANCIPET has an extremely dedicated team of veterinarians and veterinary technicians who go above and beyond for each animal while performing a staggering number of surgeries. EMANCIPET is a leader in the animal welfare movement in Austin and their programs and services are vital to our shared goal of ending the killing of Austin’s homeless pets. EMANCIPET is a member of ASPCA: Mission Orange.
Executive Director: Amy Mills
Interim Medical Director: Kimberly Bodner, DVM
Clinic Manager: Carrie Voss
FixAustin.org
FixAustin.org is a grassroots political campaign working to end the killing of dogs and cats in our city shelter by creating change at our City Council level. FixAustin.org is a strong proponent of the No Kill Advocacy Center’s no-kill sheltering method, and wants to see Austin become a no-kill city.
FixAustin.org is partnering with APA! to create much-needed foster homes and raise awareness in the community through their own database, the media, and the city government. APA! is fortunate to have a few FixAustin.org members serving as committee members on the APA! Resource Center planning committee.
PetSmart
When PetSmart, Inc. was established in 1988, its founders made a conscious decision not to sell dogs and cats. Instead, they established a PetSmart Charities Adoption Center located inside each of the 900 PetSmart® stores across the United States and Canada.
APA! is becoming a PetSmart Charities Adoption Partner so that we can bring our homeless pets to the center to help find them loving homes. Becoming a PetSmart Charities Adoption Partner is a proven way to save more lives, and we are excited to be working with them at the Georgetown, 51st Street, Parmer, and Lakeline stores.