Rescue Atx Dogs

06/12/2024

We so desperately need fosters for dogs and cats!🐶🐱

We have a list of animals we’d love to bring into the rescue but we can only do that if we have a place for them to go.

Fostering is a very rewarding experience and no cost to you!

Here’s what we offer:
✅Paid medical
✅Food, toys, crates, other needed supplies
✅Promotion of the animal
✅Heartworm and flea prevention
✅Free training if needed
✅Tips on getting your foster settled in your home
✅Quick response times and support at all hours

❤️Help us save lives❤️

You can apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/u/3/d/1NmEQA8g5-CbtOiPCt8LpIjOFYvEomYMXxwtyBwIvIPk/edit?usp=drive_web

06/05/2024

Someone please foster or adopt this bonded pair before the city shelter splits them up like they recently did to another duo. 😢

Splitting up a bonded pair can be very detrimental to the mental wellbeing of the dogs.

Having 2 bonded dogs is so rewarding, especially 2 seniors that have spent their lives together- you’ll get double the love!

06/05/2024

Someone adopt this 15 yo girl she can enjoy her golden years! Extra plus: you get to know what she looked like as a puppy.

06/05/2024

06/04/2024

People & dog friendly dogs waiting in boarding!!

06/01/2024

06/01/2024

05/30/2024

Merit & Java on their way to their new home, happily adopted together 💕 to a very kind retired couple in Blanco. What a grand life they are setting off to. We are so appreciative and thank so many for sharing and caring their need.

05/21/2024

Saving South Texas has saved many dogs from euthanasia from the Austin Animal Center & need the community to help them find homes for them.

Today is National Rescue Dog Day! 🐾Celebrate by checking out our adoptable dogs. We have some incredible cuties that have been waiting so long to find a home.

Today it is also important to raise awareness about ADOPTING! Comment below the name of your rescued fur baby.

Here are some ways that YOU can help rescue dogs in your community:

🩵ADOPT
💜FOSTER
💙VOLUNTEER (drivers, walkers, sitters)
🧡DONATE

To get involved with our rescue or meet your new BFF, email [email protected]

05/20/2024

Can you open your home to this loving trio?
This bonded trio lost their home and will likely be split up soon because it’s very hard to find a foster or adopter for 3. We’re hopeful someone will open their homes and hearts for x3 the love. ❤️

05/15/2024

05/11/2024

05/04/2024

~~‼️Roscoe's Story Continued‼️~~

Roscoe has just moved today from Austin Animal Center to Austin Pets Alive!

We've shared his story more than 15 times here over the last year he's been at AAC. He's not finished his journey, a new leg is starting and, we continue to bring you his past, current and future to tie his journey all together because this is integral toward making a straight pathway home.

We want you to know that our advocating does not start and end with simply posting senior dogs....volunteers walked him daily, watched over his wellness, filed medical slips as needed, requested kennel moves when needed, made sure he had bedding and was comfortable, took him on outings, treated and enriched him and make sure he felt loved...for a YEAR. There is a LOT of work that goes on directly in the kennels. And the advocating didn't stop there either... we suggested to staff in Sept and Oct of last year that he be recommended for APA's program- he could get more walks and more outings he needed, and go to daily play groups. Shortly thereafter his condition began to deteriorate from kennel anxiety and he was put on behavior medication. When the new URGENTS LIST was developed, he was on it. And still there were no offers for foster or adoption...then mid-April Roscoe developed URI and some GI instability and was made unavailable for foster and adoption during treatment, the last portion which runs from 4/27 until 5/3. AAC then put him on an the APA MED ATTN report asking APA to pull him by 4/30.

Today that exit was made from AAC and to APA, in the middle of his medical treatment plan, on an afternoon of the evening with heavy storms. He had some friendly faces to greet him there. Although the goal of a transfer was achieved and we are happy for the opportunities this will bring to him,,, the timing could not have been worse...and again we advocated and suggested holding off just 1 more day...the transport was already underway...and now we advocate one more time, to suggest he NOT be renamed MOSCOW as shown on his kennel sheet - the last thing we want for a displaced senior dog to yet another barrier like a name that associates with a country that it is in war. Our goal is to remove barriers, not erect them.

Back to Roscoe's need, point blank, Roscoe has lived his entire life mostly in a yard, without the benefit of the high level of human interaction that dogs that stay indoors get. He has lived with a dog previously. Roscoe loves what he's always known, a highly active outdoors life where he can be free and fit 🐕 but we know he's capable of more from outings with volunteers. His heartworm has been under treatment via slow kill method with a doxy and Advantage Multi protocol over a period of several months.

Roscoe quite simply, doesn't always engage immediately with humans but he's improved this in the social setting of the shelter. So you see the dilemma. It's been difficult to win over a potential foster or adopter who expects an instant love connection 💝

Please help us find the person or persons who will give him a REAL chance and be willing to wait for that reward that will be seen just around the corner.

04/20/2024

UPDATE: FOUND SAFE!!

LAST SEEN April 19
Vaughan Street in Mueller Austin TX 78723

IF SEEN, DO NOT CHASE!
CALL/ TEXT 361-648-9688 or 361-935-5269

Honey went to a new foster home last night. She is unfamiliar with the area. She may be skittish. She is dog friendly and loves people.

‼️DO NOT CHASE ‼️ CALL IMMEDIATELY WITH ANY SIGHTINGS.

04/09/2024

We ❤️ Friends of Austin Animal Center!!

A few things Friends of AAC provides to the homeless animals in Austin that we're grateful for:
- Training vouchers to fosters and adpoters
- Medical support for specialty cases
- Agility equipment and upgrades to the playyards
- Maintenance of the shelter 'real life rooms' where dogs get breaks
- Supplies to fosters (crates, enrichment)

And much more!!

We're thankful for this organization.
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