Austin Pets Alive!

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Over 120,000 lives saved since 2008 Austin Pets Alive! Since 2008, APA! Page is maintained by APA! staff and volunteers.
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(APA!) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping to Keep Austin No Kill. has saved over 100,000 dogs and cats from being killed at Central Texas shelters. Comments seen as unlawful, obscene, spam or otherwise offensive will be removed.

7:30PM UPDATE: over 50 pets have been transported to APA! from the Kerr and Williamson counties today, July 5. We are cl...
07/06/2025

7:30PM UPDATE: over 50 pets have been transported to APA! from the Kerr and Williamson counties today, July 5.

We are closed to the public for the rest of the evening and will open again tomorrow at 12pm. Donations can be dropped off starting as early as 8am.

Fosters remain as our most urgent need. We now have an opportunity to send out a big rescue flight Wednesday, July 9, and are in need of donations of plastic airline kennels–26”-36” in length. See our last photo for an example!

Sign up to help at https://bit.ly/44OknI4

Thank you to everyone who has shared, volunteered, fostered, and donated so far! And to Kerrville Pets Alive, Austin Animal Center, and Williamson County Regional Animal Shelter for working tirelessly to ensure the safety of the pets in Central Texas. 💚

We will continue sharing updates as we have them on social media and our latest blog! To make a donation, click the donate button below or visit https://bit.ly/3IcvdyQ

07/05/2025

3:30PM UPDATE: 12 dogs just arrived at APA! from Kerrville thanks to the transport efforts of Austin Animal Center. More dogs from Williamson County Regional Animal Shelter are on their way now.

We also have several cats in need of foster, including kitties from Kerr County and our ringworm cat population. If we can move ringworm cats to foster, it will open up space for more displaced pets.

Other urgent needs include volunteer support to sort donations, help with intake, and animal placement.

❗️ If you can help by fostering OR volunteering, please fill out this form: https://bit.ly/44OknI4 and someone will be in touch with you as soon as possible! Remote volunteer opportunities are also available.

Can’t help physically or open your home to a pet in need? Consider making a monetary donation to support rescue efforts by clicking the donate button below or visiting https://bit.ly/3GuC8Tq

As of 9am today (7/5), 24 animals in need of foster are headed to APA! from Kerr County. The transports are set to arriv...
07/05/2025

As of 9am today (7/5), 24 animals in need of foster are headed to APA! from Kerr County. The transports are set to arrive around 11am. Including the 9 kittens that arrived last night, we have 33 pets in need of foster homes. Thanks to the help of Austin Animal Center and volunteer transporters, we were able to clear the entire Kerrville Pets Alive shelter to make room for displaced pets! For now, we are not in need of additional transport volunteers.

Our most urgent needs at this time are:

🐾 Fosters: due to the high influx of animals coming through our doors, we are not able to accommodate meet and greets with household pets. We are asking for fosters to come forward that can give any animal a safe, dry place to land. If you can help, please fill out this form: https://bit.ly/44OknI4

🐈 If you’re interested in fostering cats, please consider fostering a kitty from our ringworm program as we have 60 onsite that are taking up space for pets in need in Kerr County. Please visit our Tarrytown location to foster ringworm cats.

📦 Donations: we’re in need of pet food (dog and cat, both wet and dry), pet carriers, tarps, towels, and flea and tick medications – to support displaced families as well as arriving pets.

If you cannot donate supplies or help physically, please consider making a monetary donation by clicking the donate button below or visiting https://bit.ly/44ziLRg

Thank you for your support as we continue to triage animals following the devastating floods! And HUGE hank you to the team at Kerrville Pets Alive for working tirelessly to ensure the safety of the pets in Kerr County. 💚 We will post updates as they come in.

🚨 EMERGENCY HELP NEEDED with flooding in Kerr County! The Guadalupe River is overflooded and has caused loss of life and...
07/04/2025

🚨 EMERGENCY HELP NEEDED with flooding in Kerr County!

The Guadalupe River is overflooded and has caused loss of life and devastation in Kerr County. We believe there will be a lot of pets hurt and displaced during this, and our support is needed.

Our teams are already in Kerrville, providing medical care onsite and beginning to transport animals. We will be working with Kerrville Pets Alive over the next several days and bringing pets from the Kerr County shelter to APA!

We need your help! Here’s how you can support:

🚙 Volunteer to drive to the hill country to pick up animals and/or bring supplies, support the intake, care and placement of onsite animals, and/or help accept and sort supplies onsite at APA! for the next few days

🐾 Sign up to emergency foster a dog or cat to make space for incoming animals

📦 Donations of supplies like pet food (dog and cat, both wet and dry), pet carriers, tarps, and towels. Supplies can be dropped off at our Cesar Chavez location until 7pm today (7/4) and then again tomorrow (7/5) from 8am-6pm

❗️ If you can support in one of the ways above, please fill out this form: https://bit.ly/44OknI4

Can’t help physically? Make a monetary donation now to support displaced pets by clicking the donate button below or visiting http://bit.ly/4llHEqU

We will share updates as we have them. Thank you for coming through for Central Texas pets!

Featured animals are those currently on-site at APA!

Happy 4th of July! We are closed today in observance of the holiday. Normal business hours will resume Saturday, July 5....
07/04/2025

Happy 4th of July! We are closed today in observance of the holiday. Normal business hours will resume Saturday, July 5. Austin Pets Alive! Thrift is open!

🎆 Fur-iendly reminder: fireworks induce stress for pets and many escape during festivities. See our tips on how to reduce these risks and what steps you should take if you lose or find a pet. Stay safe!

Dewbert is a 1-year-old Great Pyrenees who came to us as a medically urgent case from Austin Animal Center — and you can...
07/02/2025

Dewbert is a 1-year-old Great Pyrenees who came to us as a medically urgent case from Austin Animal Center — and you can immediately see why.

He’s covered in red, itchy, infected welts, and his ears are scabbed from scratching. This sweet boy has severe skin allergies that developed into painful infections under all his white floof. He was also covered in fleas, and is a little too thin for his size and age.

Right now, we’re working on getting his wounds healed and his itchiness under control, and trying to help him gain weight — and we need your help to do it!

💚 Dewbert has a smile for everyone despite not feeling his best, and we can’t wait to see his transformation to his fluffy, happy self! To get there, he needs lots of medications and special care for his wounds, which will cost around $1,000. We’re also making sure he’s eating well, and he doesn’t seem to mind a good meal!

Dewbert’s allergies may be lifelong, and require continuing care to keep him from ever being in this situation again. We’re here to help Dewbert, and pets like him, on that path to recovery and management, because they so deserve it.

➡️ Provide healing for Dewbert and pets like him by making a gift today! Click the donate button below or visit https://bit.ly/4lfefhS

Sleepover hosts needed July 4th weekend! 🎆❗ Austin’s July 4th fireworks show takes place right next to our Cesar Chavez ...
07/01/2025

Sleepover hosts needed July 4th weekend! 🎆

❗ Austin’s July 4th fireworks show takes place right next to our Cesar Chavez shelter, so we want to find as many homes for our dogs and cats as possible before then. Here’s how you can help:

🐾 Sign up to foster (long-term)
🐶 Take a dog on a sleepover for a few days or a couple weeks (short-term)
🐈 Adopt a barn cat (barn cats are only available for adoption as they do not have the ability to adapt to a foster home) 📧 [email protected]

If possible, visit us in-person any day from 12-6pm to be matched with a pet as soon as possible! We will be closed July 4.

106 ADOPTIONS! 35 FOSTER PLACEMENTS! IN 2 DAYS! 🎉and that’s just here at APA!—citywide, 258 pets were adopted during the...
07/01/2025

106 ADOPTIONS! 35 FOSTER PLACEMENTS! IN 2 DAYS! 🎉

and that’s just here at APA!—citywide, 258 pets were adopted during the Keep Austin Adopting weekend, surpassing our goal of placing 250 animals into homes!

The wildest part? That total doesn’t even include:
✨ Foster placements
✨ Reports from half of the participating shelters and rescues

Which means that number’s only going UP! But we couldn’t wait another second to share this pawsome news with you. 🧡

Thank you to everyone who adopted, fostered, shared, and showed up. ATX–you’ve done it again! Austin animals are lucky to have you!

Ivy, a 9-year-old pittie mix, was seized in a neglect case, found tied to a tree with no food, no clean water, and very ...
07/01/2025

Ivy, a 9-year-old pittie mix, was seized in a neglect case, found tied to a tree with no food, no clean water, and very little room to move. She spent a year in another shelter waiting for a home, but because of her breed and heartworm-positive status, she was repeatedly overlooked.

That is, until she became our 10,000th transport earlier this year. Thanks to the support of The Rachael Ray Foundation for our lifesaving Transport Program, Ivy made her way to Fetch Wisconsin Rescue, a foster-based rescue in Madison, Wisconsin.

Today, Ivy is living her best (and most spoiled) life in an adoptive home, and we’re so grateful to our partners who help to make this lifesaving work possible!

Mellie Mel is a people pleaser and tries to make it as easy as possible for her walker to 💩 Austin WatershedShe knows ...
06/30/2025

Mellie Mel is a people pleaser and tries to make it as easy as possible for her walker to 💩 Austin Watershed

She knows that pet waste left on the ground is more than smelly and unsightly–it contaminates our water and poses a health risk for people and pets. So whether your pup poos one foot or one mile from the nearest waste bin, always dispose of that doo doo!

P.S. Mellie Mel is available for adoption! We could tell you about all of her stinkin’ good qualities, but we’ll let this pic speak for itself 🤎

Learn more at austintexas.gov/department/scoop-poop

Pillow wants to know if y’all have ordered Pride merch yet? 🤠🌈Shop our four Pride designs, including our best-selling “Y...
06/29/2025

Pillow wants to know if y’all have ordered Pride merch yet? 🤠🌈

Shop our four Pride designs, including our best-selling “Y’all means all” tee online now at https://bit.ly/44qtFse or in-person at Austin Pets Alive! Thrift!

LAST CHANCE! This weekend only, shelters and rescues across ATX are teaming up to help our four-legged Austinites find h...
06/28/2025

LAST CHANCE! This weekend only, shelters and rescues across ATX are teaming up to help our four-legged Austinites find homes with a Name Your Own Adoption Fee special ➡️ participating shelters/rescues include:

Austin Pets Alive! Austin Animal Center Austin Humane Society Jack Jack's Pack Love-A-Bull Pflugerville Animal Shelter TRAPRS - Trapping, Rescue, and Pet Recovery Service Williamson County Regional Animal Shelter

We’re open daily from 12-6pm. Tag your friends and share this post to KEEP AUSTIN ADOPTING! 🤠

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Austin Pets Alive! (APA!) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping to Keep Austin No Kill. Since 2008, APA! has saved over 60,000 dogs and cats from being killed at Central Texas shelters. Comments seen as unlawful, obscene, spam or otherwise offensive will be removed. Page is maintained by APA! staff and volunteers.

Prior to 2008 when APA! started rescuing and adopting cats and dogs, 50%, or 14,000 of the animals entering the city’s shelter were euthanized. APA! examined the gaps in existing lifesaving efforts and found there were groups of animals for which life-saving programs did not exist. APA! created programs targeting the groups of animals facing certain euthanasia. These programs lead to a measurable impact on the community’s save rate – and Austin’s status as the largest No-Kill City in the Nation. Through our innovative programs Austin has become the largest No-Kill city in the United States. Since our inception, we have found that almost every large city in the US has the same gaps as existed in Austin in 2008. We are now a model for communities nationwide, and through our American Pets Alive! program we train other communities on how to create and manage the same lifesaving programs so that ultimately no pets have to die unnecessarily in America.

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