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AUSTIN (KXAN) – Clear the Shelters is well on its way in central Texas and across the country.
While you and your family help animal shelters in hopes of achieving their goal, we guide you through the process of adoption or care from the local Austin Pets Alive!
The adoption process
The heart of the local animal shelter Austin Pets Alive!
“During COVID when we closed, everything was virtual, remote, and timed, and we found that we did a lot better at customer service,” said Sarah Aguilar, senior director of liferett operations for the Austin shelter.
- Austin Pets Alive! Kennel. (KXAN Photo / Chelsea Moreno)
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Mural at Austin Pets Alive! is dedicated to care. (KXAN Photo / Chelsea Moreno)![]()
Austin Pets Alive has a new trailer! to help pets relax. (KXAN Photo / Chelsea Moreno)
Mural at Austin Pets Alive! is dedicated to care. (KXAN Photo / Chelsea Moreno)
Austin Pets Alive has a new trailer! to help pets relax. (KXAN Photo / Chelsea Moreno)So the puzzle has been how staff and volunteers can achieve an efficient adoption process without the long waits like before the pandemic, while maintaining the high levels of customer service and accommodation they achieved during the pandemic.
Once an adopter has a pet in mind or wants more information, they can email the appropriate contact to see what they want to do.
Resources during the adoption and foster care process
Austin Pets Alive! has resources available for potential users and encourages them during the process.
Puppy available for adoption at Austin Pets Alive! (KXAN Photo / Chelsea Moreno)
One of those resources is their matchmaking agents who take in information based on lifestyle and then a pet in the Austin Pets Alive system! find that fits.
“You can discuss all of the pet’s quirks and personalities, their needs and history, and make sure the pet you are taking home is the best fit for your home,” said Aguilar. “The activity level, your energy level, what you’re looking for, whether or not you want to potty a puppy,” she laughed.
For more information on how to contact Austin Pets Alive! Matchmaker can be found on their website.
Another perk of adopting Austin Pets Alive! Is the animal up to date with its vaccinations, flea and tick heartworm preventions and everyone who is adopted will be neutered or neutered – either at the appropriate age of the animal or already free of charge for you.
In addition, the shelter offers lifelong behavioral support to each of its adoptive parents.
“To be part of an organization that cares so much about the human-animal bond, employs people for success and ensures that everyone in the family – the furry four-legged friends and the people – are all supported and able Getting started on their best feet and continuing to have that lifelong support is just really fulfilling, ”said Aguilar. “I think the same would apply to so many of our staff and volunteers.”
Austin Pets Alive! also offers leashes, collars, toys and everything else caregivers need to make caring for their pets as easy as possible.
Toys at Austin Pets Alive! (KXAN Photo / Chelsea Moreno)
Checklist for puppies
- Food and water bowls
- Appropriate size collar and leash
- Name tag
- eat
- Goodies
- Puppy toy
- Crate if you choose to train your pup in a crate
- Cleaning products (potty training safety net)
- Dog bed
- Maintenance tools
- Find a veterinarian in your area
- Flea, tick and heartworm prevention
- Bells for your back door (potty training professional tip)
Checklist for cats
- Food and water bowl
- Cat transport box
- Litter box
- cat litter
- Toys
- Catnip
- cleaning supplies
- Find a veterinarian in your area
- Appropriate preventive medicine
Would you like to learn more? Check out these amazing resources at Austin Pets Alive! for adoptive parents.
The difference beyond the Austin community
Austin Pets Alive! While already an important part of the shelter community in central Texas, it also provides resources and a home for pets from shelters across the country.
Most recently, the shelter took in over 30 cats from Texas shelters before Hurricane Ida hit the Louisiana coast. Four years ago, they also helped shelters on the trail of Hurricane Harvey.
Welfare work is tough physically, it’s tough emotionally, and at the end of the day, when you can say, ‘I’ve saved a life, I’ve changed a pet or a dozen, or in our case 1,000 pets,’ it offers something and fulfills life in ways few things do.
Sarah Aguilar, Senior Director of Lifesaving Operations at Austin Pets Alive!
Puppy available for adoption at Austin Pets Alive! (KXAN Photo / Chelsea Moreno)
Many of the pets they take into their care come from animal shelters that do not have the resources to look after such animals in their conditions.
“Being a resource throughout the area not just for pet owners and prospective adoptive parents and carers in our community, but also for pets outside of Austin, means so much and is one of the things we can do as a private nonprofit. “Said Aguilar.
“Through adopters, carers, donors, people who just network and talk about our work, volunteers, everyone, if we didn’t have the support of the Austin community, we could do almost none of the work we do.”
Austin Pets Alive! has about 50 puppies to be found either through adoption or foster care, 120 cats and 200 other dogs on site at their Town Lake Animal Center who live in kennels. To date, the animal shelter has around 1,000 pets in its care.
Join KXAN through September 18 as we partner with animal shelters in the Central Texas area for Clear the Shelters, an annual adoption and donation initiative to get pets out of shelters and into permanent homes.
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