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Austin residents find stray dog. Try to take her to their local animal control shelter and are refused. Contact two other large shelters in their city, both private no-kills, and are refused. AAC is overrun with distemper and trying to space out their animals, the other two shelters prefer to choose their own saves and don't allow mere citizens to foist their problems off on them. The finders can't keep her at their no-animals apartment complex.
In short, a stray dog's future is completely in limbo despite having been found by 2 kind people who tried very hard to do the right thing and place her in a safe place. The safe places want no part of her.
The title of this is a little inaccurate - Austin's stray system didn't collapse, it was deliberately destroyed. By these shelters and people.
Austin Animal Center - the municipal, taxpayer-funded animal control shelter for the city of Austin
Don Bland, Chief Animal Services Officer 2019-present
Austin Humane Society - private "no kill" nonprofit shelter
Frances Jonon, President and CEO of Austin Humane Society
Austin Pets Alive - private "no kill" shelter
Dr. Ellen Jefferson, CEO and President of Austin Pets Alive (2008-present)
AAC website news release August 10, 2023
Oh, they must be desperate. It must have been so hard on them, euthanizing all their least-adoptable animals so as to create space to stop the distemper spread!
Nope. They still have the non-adoptable animals.
What's the Orange Dot Crew like?
Austin Pets Alive!
And btw, here's a dog that Austin Pets Alive did consent to take in on September 5, 2023 - from Austin Animal Center, ie, a shelter dog at risk of euthanization, which is their organizational mission. But when do you re-examine your mission? This dog has been observed for MONTHS at the shelter and remains a high-risk, unadoptable dog despite shelter efforts. The stray husky has more chance of being adoptable, more chance of living a happy life - if he survives the rejection of all these sheltering professionals.
Hanson, alumnus of both Austin Animal Center and Austin Pets Alive
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