Austin Pets Alive!

Austin Pets Alive! 🐾 Helping People Help Pets 🐾
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.

Y’all means all our items are BOGO this Saturday! 🤠🌈Come shop, adopt, and celebrate Pride! All five Austin Pets Alive! T...
06/09/2025

Y’all means all our items are BOGO this Saturday! 🤠🌈

Come shop, adopt, and celebrate Pride! All five Austin Pets Alive! Thrift stores are participating and stocked up on our Pride merch, including our best-selling Y’all means all t-shirt–now in pink 🩷

06/08/2025

With your help, we can show up today, and every day, for pets like Princess Cheese Puff ❤️‍🩹

We’re just one day away from Raise A Day — our 24-hour campaign to fund an entire day of lifesaving at APA! — and there’s still time to give early and have your gift matched, thanks to $10,000 from Austin Subaru and $2,500 from H-E-B!

🗓️ Mark your calendars for June 10 and help us kick off strong by clicking the donate button below or visiting https://bit.ly/4mRMPQp

Have y’all ordered Pride merch yet? 🤠 🏳️‍🌈Swipe to see our four Pride designs IRL, including our best-selling “Y’all mea...
06/06/2025

Have y’all ordered Pride merch yet? 🤠 🏳️‍🌈

Swipe to see our four Pride designs IRL, including our best-selling “Y’all means all” tee–now in pink! Shop online now at https://bit.ly/4kvERuN 🌈 or in-person at our Austin Pets Alive! Thrift Burnet, 51st, and Oltorf stores. Coming to more locations soon!

P.S. Peep photos 9+10 to meet APA!’s very own power couple, Fathom and Lucy! They first met at APA! in 2019–and just tied the knot this April. 💖

All day on Tuesdays and Thursdays, our vets perform around 50 spay and neuter surgeries for dogs and cats in our care. R...
06/05/2025

All day on Tuesdays and Thursdays, our vets perform around 50 spay and neuter surgeries for dogs and cats in our care. Raise A Day is all about funding a day’s worth of operation costs, and nothing shows the typical busy day at APA! quite like surgery day.

Today, the surgery room here at APA! is buzzing with activity — and can only run smoothly with your support.

🏥 Costs range from around $100 for a cat neuter, to around $500 for a dog spay — not to mention medications and supplies. These are below the costs at a private vet, and we can keep these costs down, and provide this service to every single one of our animals, because you help us make it happen.

That’s why we need your help now to keep the wheels turning in our clinic and lifesaving programs by making your Raise A Day gift! Every dollar is matched up to $12,500 thanks to a match from our generous sponsors, Austin Subaru and H-E-B 🧡

🗓️ For 24 hours starting June 10, we’ll take you behind the scenes of lifesaving at APA! Mark your calendars and help us kick off strong by clicking the donate button below or visiting https://bit.ly/4jBejXG

We love a good happy tail – especially when it’s a long-awaited reunion 💫While Sammy’s mom was on a solo road trip to Or...
06/04/2025

We love a good happy tail – especially when it’s a long-awaited reunion 💫

While Sammy’s mom was on a solo road trip to Oregon, she ran out of gas at 2am in Fort Stockton, TX–and that’s when Sammy hopped out and vanished. Alone and panicked in the middle of the night, she feared the worst.

But Sammy’s journey led him back to where it all began–Austin Pets Alive! While waiting for his mom to catch a flight back to Texas, Sammy enjoyed an extended sleepover with his foster sibling, Manx for the Memories.

This week, we got to reunite Sammy with his mama, and it was nothing short of magical. 🧡

⚠️ Microchips reunite families. Make sure your pets’ is up to date!

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT BELOW ⚠️Meet Cubone, a 2-month-old puppy found alone on the side of the road, with a painful fac...
06/02/2025

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT BELOW ⚠️

Meet Cubone, a 2-month-old puppy found alone on the side of the road, with a painful face wound and crawling with fleas. The person who found her feared she had been thrown from a car.

❤️‍🩹 Cubone’s injuries are severe, but she’s doing well with intensive care. Part of her skull is exposed, and our clinic team is carefully monitoring her while she receives antibiotics and pain meds. She may also need the wound surgically closed. Healing like this takes time, resources, and a community of supporters behind her.

The person who found Cubone rushed her to a private emergency clinic — but couldn’t afford the care she so clearly needed. A former APA! clinic staffer now working at the ER referred the finder to P.A.S.S. — our program that helps pet families and finders access lifesaving support when cost is a barrier.

Cubone is now at APA!, receiving treatment in our clinic. Every connection formed, every mile traveled to safety, every critical medication given, and every life saved is only possible with your help to keep our programs moving behind the scenes.

🐾 Raise A Day for APA! is almost here! Early giving starts now, and we’re kicking it off by showing you how this work takes a village–and how you can be part of it.

With a generous $10,000 donation from Austin Subaru and $2,500 from H-E-B, we’re excited to offer an early giving match up to $12,500! Your early gift to Raise A Day powers programs like P.A.S.S., our medical clinic, and every team working together every day to save Cubone and pets like her.

🗓 For 24 hours starting June 10, we’ll take you behind the scenes of lifesaving at APA! Mark your calendars and help us kick off strong by clicking the donate button below or visiting https://bit.ly/4kxw3V5

Happy Pride! 🌈 At APA!, we celebrate all life, all love, all the time. Y’all means ALL and we want our supporters to exp...
06/01/2025

Happy Pride! 🌈 At APA!, we celebrate all life, all love, all the time. Y’all means ALL and we want our supporters to express themselves proudly, so we’re restocking our Pride merch to celebrate!

Check out our four Pride designs, including our best-selling “Y’all means all” t-shirt in a new color. Shop online now–coming soon to all APA! locations! https://bit.ly/43F62Mt

Two suspects. One steaming pile of evidence. 💩 Who dropped the deuce? Meatball Sub OR Meatball Joe? Examine the evidence...
05/31/2025

Two suspects. One steaming pile of evidence. 💩 Who dropped the deuce?

Meatball Sub OR Meatball Joe? Examine the evidence yourself 🧐 and comment who you think did it below to help us reach a verdict!

🧑‍⚖️ Justice must be served (and the p**p must be scooped) Austin Watershed https://bit.ly/43GXR2f

What’s better than a nap in the sun? How about a nap in the sun with your feline friend? ☀️ 🐈Mr. Gibbs is an easygoing s...
05/31/2025

What’s better than a nap in the sun? How about a nap in the sun with your feline friend? ☀️ 🐈

Mr. Gibbs is an easygoing senior who’s looking for just about any type of home that loves a slow lifestyle with ambles around the block, long naps, and delicious snacks.

🐾 Set up a meet and greet with Mr. Gibbs today by emailing [email protected] or visiting https://bit.ly/3Ftk0sK

A momma cat brought her kitten close to where some kind humans lived. Right away, they noticed something was wrong with ...
05/30/2025

A momma cat brought her kitten close to where some kind humans lived. Right away, they noticed something was wrong with the kitten: he had a large wound on his face, right where his nose should be.

It looked more like an injury than something he was born with, so the finders took him to a private vet. What followed was a long process of trying to keep the wound clean and closed, and to get some food into this underweight kitten — he couldn’t smell, and didn’t want to eat.

Finally, things started looking up. He began to heal, but his generous finders couldn’t keep him. He was surrendered to a local shelter, who then asked APA! to help this unique kitten, now named Keroppi, find a home.

It costs about $300 just to bring each at-risk kitten through our doors, more if they have special medical or other needs. Donations are down in the face of economic uncertainty, and we need your help to be there for animals like this, who have been through the worst, and to give them a soft spot to land.

Keroppi may be more likely to get kitty colds in the future, because the anatomy of his nose is forever changed by his injury. But he’s made it through an extremely rough start to now have a chance at a long, happy life in a loving home because of our amazing community.

❤️‍🩹 You can help Keroppi and pets like him find safety, comfort, and love when you donate today! Make a gift now by clicking the donate button below or visiting https://bit.ly/45vDmrB

Our kennels are at capacity! 🚨 Here’s how you can help: 🐕 Tune in to our Playgroup Live Friday, May 30 at 4pm! Watch to ...
05/29/2025

Our kennels are at capacity! 🚨 Here’s how you can help:

🐕 Tune in to our Playgroup Live Friday, May 30 at 4pm! Watch to meet our adoptable dogs and see their true personalities–beyond the kennel doors. Join on Instagram (instagram.com/austinpetsalive) or TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/?lang=en) at !

🐾 Attend an upcoming adoption event! See the graphic below for dates, times, locations, and other details. Puppy Party Adoption Event PetSmart Adoption Event with Austin Pets Alive!

🏡 Sign up to foster! Whether you love dogs, cats, or bottle babies, we have foster opportunities for everyone: austinpetsalive.org/foster

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Our shelter is full to the furry brim! If you’ve been waiting for a sign to adopt, this is it. 💫Join us at our upcoming ...
05/28/2025

Our shelter is full to the furry brim! If you’ve been waiting for a sign to adopt, this is it. 💫

Join us at our upcoming adoption events and help us make some room (and a whole lot of happy tails) by giving a pet a loving home! Every adoption makes space for another pet in need. 💛

Puppy Party Adoption Event PetSmart Adoption Event with Austin Pets Alive! PetSmart PetSmart Charities

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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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