Storms Bring Deluge of Lost Pets to Shelter
It was raining cats and dogs this week. And as a result of those storms, the Austin Animal Center is overflowing with lost pets.Pets often respond poorly to extreme weather, and after heavy rainstorms...
View ArticleAustin Animal Center: 92% Live Rate in January (But a Rough Month for Cats)
The city-run Austin Animal Shelter has released intake, adoption and euthanasia data for the month of January. The Shelter had an overall “live outcome rate” of 92% (That’s the percentage of animals...
View ArticleAnimal Center Offers $5 Adoptions This 'PAWSidents Day'
Most City of Austin offices are closed this Presidents Day, but the Austin Animal Center is celebrating the holiday with an adoption special this “PAWSidents Day.”
View Article‘No Kill’ and At Capacity: What Should the Austin Animal Center Do Now?
The new Austin Animal Center, opened only in November 2011, is already well over capacity. And the city is asking for your input on what to do now.While the new center has helped with the city’s ‘”no...
View ArticleGimme Shelter: 'No Kill' Has New Animal Center Straining
The Austin Animal Shelter, which opened last November, already has more animals than it can hold. The city says it’s taken in about 140 more pets than this time last year, and is adopting out fewer...
View Article'No Kill' Achieved, For Now: Animal Center Meets Adoption Goals
The Austin Animal Center exceeded their goal of adopting out 40 pets yesterday. And that means 23 animals did not have to be put down.The Austin Animal Center announced on their Facebook page that 104...
View ArticleWhat’s Open, What’s Closed on Memorial Day
Many people are enjoying a three-day weekend this Memorial Day. The City of Austin offices are closed, although city pools and golf courses are operating on a regular schedule today.The Austin Animal...
View ArticleAM Update: Animal Shelter Achieves No-Kill, Controversial Tax Considered,...
Austin Animal Center Achieves 90 Percent Live Outcome RateThe Austin Animal Center put down 10 percent of animals in May, achieving a 90 percent live outcome rate. That is up two percent from this time...
View ArticlePet Adoption Fee Doesn't Pay for Much at City Shelter
The Austin Animal Center is running a promotion throughout June, reducing its adoption fees for all animals to $20. Normally, it runs you $75 to adopt a pet through the city. The center is running the...
View ArticleAM Update: ‘No Sit, No Lie,’ Finishing Touches at Governor's Mansion, Free...
No Vote on ‘No Sit, No Lie’Austin’s Public Safety Commission decided to push back until August a decision on expanding the city’s “No Sit, No Lie” ordinance to the 12th Street and Chicon Street...
View ArticleAM Update: Labor Day Closures, UT System Framework, America's Best Bathroom?
Happy Labor Day! It will be a pretty hot one with an expected high of 100.City of Austin Offices Closed – But Animal Center OpenIt’s Labor Day and that means City of Austin offices are closed– as are...
View ArticleAt Capacity, Austin Animal Center Holding Adoption Special This Weekend
The Austin Animal Center is once again deluged with dogs and cats – many of them separated from their owners due to the weather.“It happens every time. Every single time there’s a storm, we just brace...
View ArticleAustin Animal Center Hopes Residents Elect to Adopt
Austin Animal Center is urging residents to “cast a ballot for companionship” on Election Day this Tuesday.Tomorrow marks the final day of the center’s “Elect to Adopt a Homeless Animal” campaign,...
View ArticleMLK Day 2013: The March, The Festival, The Closures
The CelebrationThe City of Austin’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day march kicks off at 9 a.m.The march will begin at the MLK statue on the University of Texas at Austin campus—near Speedway and...
View ArticleThe Lead: Animal Center's 'No Kill' 2012, Dewhurst at Vets' Expo
Good morning. Austin’s in for a sunny and mild day according to the National Weather Service, with highs in the low to mid-60s.Lead Story: Despite crowded conditions and a longer-than-expected “kitten...
View ArticleStorms Bring Deluge of Lost Pets to Shelter
It was raining cats and dogs this week. And as a result of those storms, the Austin Animal Center is overflowing with lost pets.Pets often respond poorly to extreme weather, and after heavy rainstorms...
View ArticleAustin Animal Center: 92% Live Rate in January (But a Rough Month for Cats)
The city-run Austin Animal Shelter has released intake, adoption and euthanasia data for the month of January. The Shelter had an overall “live outcome rate” of 92% (That’s the percentage of animals...
View ArticleAnimal Center Offers $5 Adoptions This 'PAWSidents Day'
Most City of Austin offices are closed this Presidents Day, but the Austin Animal Center is celebrating the holiday with an adoption special this “PAWSidents Day.”
View Article‘No Kill’ and At Capacity: What Should the Austin Animal Center Do Now?
The new Austin Animal Center, opened only in November 2011, is already well over capacity. And the city is asking for your input on what to do now.While the new center has helped with the city’s ‘”no...
View ArticleGimme Shelter: 'No Kill' Has New Animal Center Straining
The Austin Animal Shelter, which opened last November, already has more animals than it can hold. The city says it’s taken in about 140 more pets than this time last year, and is adopting out fewer...
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