Thanks to you we have made it into the top four, but we need your help again to win the grand prize of $10,000! The second and final round of voting for the Big Prize begins today, September 8th at 12:00 pm.
In round two we ask that you write a personal testimony about your experience with Austin Pets Alive! It’s quality over quantity in this round so be descriptive! Share how APA! personalized and enhanced interaction with donors from asking to thanking and everywhere in between. Visit The Big Give to cast your vote!
Construction at the new building is well underway, surgeries are already taking place in the new facility & cats/kittens have moved in for adoptions! Also under construction is the new Bottle Baby Room. This ONE ROOM has easily three times the space as our Trailer, which we have operated in over the last year. In that small trailer since January 1st, we have rescued an astounding 592 kittens – just imagine what we’ll be be able to accomplish in the building…(more … more
Update 9/3 5:21pm: We just heard from the I Live Here, I Give Here organization that we made it to the final round! Thank you so much, Austin, for helping us to make Austin a no-kill city!
Have you ever had a good experience donating to APA? Vote for us in the Big Give by Friday!
The I Live Here, I Give Here organization is giving out a $10,000 prize to the organization who gets the most votes. We could really use this for our new building!
We are currently 5th and only need to be in … more
Love running? If you don’t know about Team Spiridon, you should.
They’ve been doing pub runs all summer, while raising money for animal welfare. You may remember when they did a run for APA pets back in May. They’ve also been incredible at our new building and have been working like crazy to help us get it ready.
Now they are looking for runners to raise even more money for local animal welfare organizations as they train for and run the 2011 LIVESTRONG Austin Marathon or … more
Wow, what a difference a week makes! Thanks to all of the volunteers who have come out to help us get our new building ready this week!
We’ll be having an Open House to celebrate our new building on Wednesday, September 1st from 11am-2pm. We hope you can stop by and join us on your lunch hour.
If you can’t make the Open House, we have two other ways for you to get a tour of our building:
We have more good news to report on Reba. Thanks to all of the physical therapy her foster has done with her, she is now walking! She’s still a little wobbly, but her foster reports that she’s actually started running a little bit now too!
We want to thank her donors, the volunteers who helped her, and especially her foster for taking such great care of this girl. She went from broken hip and a terrible case of distemper which left her blind and unable to walk at all to able to see from one eye, … more
Olak came to TLAC with a very bad leg – broken with terrible open wounds. Apparently, his owner had tried to fix his leg with popsicle sticks and tape. He wasn’t given any veterinary care. Then he dropped his cat off at the shelter.
Despite his serious wounds, Olak is the friendliest little kitten – he tries to leap in your arms as soon as you open the cage. He has a healthy appetite and is doing ok now in his wonderful foster home.
Yes, you read it right. After 2.5 years of looking, we have finally found a building. (Actually, it’s 2 buildings on a few acres.)
This building will allow us to save more dogs and cats – at least 1,000 more this year, and of course, we’ll be working hard to grow that number quickly.
We will house pets there and it will be open to the public for adoptions. (We will continue to operate many off-site adoption events because we believe it’s an important piece to getting as many pets as possible into their new homes.)
