Dec 24, 2022
As I write this letter, we’re getting ready for the harmful Arctic chilly
entrance this is about to blast freezing temperatures into our neighborhood
and right through Central Texas, simply in time for the vacations.
Our safe haven turns into seriously strained with temperatures this low. To
stay our animals heat and secure all through this chilly emergency, we requested our
neighborhood to soak up a foster puppy all through the typhoon, give budget to
improve the greater price of safe haven operations, and lend a hand
under-resourced shelters around the area. And you’ve got come
thru, opening your hearts and houses to the pets who’re maximum in want,
on the time they want that lend a hand probably the most.
Even if our personal safe haven struggles vastly all through a
crisis like this, we can’t flip our backs on animals in our neighborhood
or in shelters which can be seriously under-resourced. We’re forced to
lend a hand out and our neighborhood is just too. Your improve lets in us to distribute heat blankets and warmers to pets in want all throughout Texas.
Our neighborhood stepping up to give protection to pets all through a bitterly frigid typhoon is only one inspiring instance of many, of ways running in combination in 2022 we now have been in a position to take action a lot for homeless pets in Austin, and past.
We stored our 100,000th lifestyles in February. Copper, a
2-month-old pet, survived a illness that may be a demise sentence in just about
each and every different animal safe haven, because of our cutting edge Parvo Pet ICU.
Copper is without doubt one of the whopping 1,035 domestic dogs who’re alive these days, only
as a result of they got here thru our Parvo Pet ICU this yr.
We celebrated our eleventh anniversary of Austin turning into a No Kill town.
Fourteen years in the past, animal fanatics in Austin banded in combination to finish the
useless killing of safe haven pets in our neighborhood. We accomplished this objective
in 3 years, and feature by no means stopped preventing for it since. Now we have now
set our eyes on increasing our lifesaving additional past our
geographical borders, to the spaces with the best want.
We grew our delivery program.
This yr we stored greater than 2,400 at-risk pets via connecting
underfunded and crushed Texas shelters to organizations in spaces of
the rustic the place they’d be followed. In a single outstanding delivery
venture, in July we flew 89 cats and kittens and 12 canine from Texas,
the place the animals confronted most likely euthanasia, to our spouse in Maine,
the place they have been gained with open hands and hope.
We persisted our partnership with Austin FC, our native land skilled football membership, with 22 of our animals serving as Honorary Mascots all through house video games.
Those come with doggies who’re true survivors, and in reality need to be
celebrated—like Gavin, who got here to APA! with serious accidents after being
hit via a automobile, and wanted his jaw reattached; RayRay, who’d been
deserted in a house when his proprietor moved out and left him at the back of; and
Wolff Pack and Alright, Alright, Alright, two extra of our parvo
survivors and Parvo Pet ICU graduates. Those bushy mascots unfold
crucial consciousness about our lifesaving methods and venture—and the
game-day consideration is helping them get followed!
APA! introduced just about 12,000 animals thru our safe haven this yr. We
stored numerous extra with our hands-on improve of under-resourced
shelters, thru our No Kill training by which we educate different shelters
and communities methods to save probably the most at-risk animals, and our Human
Animal Reinforce Products and services undertaking’s focal point on puppy improve and maintaining
other folks and pets in combination.
Those are only a few of our 2022 milestones. We will’t wait to proportion extra with you in our annual have an effect on file. Keep tuned!
Now, as we flip towards the top of the yr, let me say thanks for being such the most important a part of our lifesaving neighborhood. It’s your improve that shall we us save those lives.
And now your present can do much more. A gaggle of beneficiant nameless donors is matching all donations till December thirty first.
From now till the top of the yr, your present is DOUBLED. That implies in case you donate $1, it turns into $2! We’re midway to assembly our December targets and each and every greenback is helping. Click on right here to donate.
Fourteen years in the past, we got down to save the pets who have been shedding their lives in Austin, for no explanation why rather then as a result of they did not have a house. As of late, as our pets are welcomed into loving foster properties, whilst a depraved typhoon approaches, we’re so pleased with our neighborhood. We’re proud to be based totally right here, on this town of animal fanatics, the place on a daily basis of yearly, we paintings to save lots of much more of the animals who would now not live to tell the tale with out what we do in combination. We’re excited to make bigger our lifesaving paintings to anywhere at-risk pets want us probably the most, and we will’t wait so that you can be a part of it.
On behalf of all people at APA!, thanks for all you do. Satisfied vacations, and feature a more than pleased new yr.