Aug 20, 2021
AUSTIN, TX — Tails are wagging at Austin Pets Alive! this summer time, because the Central Texas refuge was once introduced as a profitable recipient of considered one of The Gray Muzzle Group’s annual grants for the 5th consecutive 12 months.
APA! is considered one of 77 animal welfare teams selected from 266 candidates to obtain a grant to lend a hand native senior canine. The profitable teams won greater than $616,000 in grants to lend a hand save or make stronger the lives of at-risk outdated canine of their communities.
11-year outdated Tiana is considered one of a number of candy seniors at APA! who will have the benefit of this grant. She earned the nickname “Queen of Chairs” from her dependancy of short of to take a look at out any chair or at ease piece of furnishings she encounters. Tiana got here to APA! in January 2020 as an proprietor give up, and has been continuously coaching with the refuge’s Canine Habits workforce to set her up for luck in a house. This grant from the Gray Muzzle Group offers canine like Tiana the reinforce they want to succeed in for a brighter long run.
Senior canine regularly face an uphill combat discovering adopters keen to tackle an older puppy. Many senior canine additionally arrive at shelters with in depth clinical wishes, reminiscent of dental headaches and heartworm illness, that the majority conventional shelters lack the sources to regard. Thankfully, APA!’s specialised methods are in a position to offer a an important protection web for older canine, overlaying the important hospital treatment to make stronger their high quality of lifestyles as they wait to search out loving properties.
“Senior canine are the most efficient for such a lot of causes!” stated APA!’s Canine Adoption Supervisor, Allison Swearingen. “It is all the time unhappy to look them finally end up in a refuge atmosphere in what must be their golden, simple years; however fortunately heaps of persons are catching on about those well-mannered doggies! They have already got years of coaching beneath their belts and are simply searching for a at ease house to spend the remainder of their lives in whilst giving all their like to whomever is fortunate sufficient to rescue them!”
During the last 13 years, the nationwide nonprofit Gray Muzzle Group has supplied greater than $3.1 million in grants to reinforce its imaginative and prescient of “a global the place no outdated canine dies by myself and afraid.”
“Due to the generosity of our donors, we’re thrilled to lend a hand deserving organizations like Austin Pets Alive! make a distinction within the lives of canine and folks of their communities,” Gray Muzzle’s Govt Director Lisa Lunghofer stated. “Many senior canine within the Austin House are playing their golden years in loving properties due to the fantastic paintings of APA!.”