SaL10 - Mary Harris

Save a Life Drive 2010!

Austin Pets Alive is having their annual Save a Life drive and I have committed to raise $500.00 to save 5 lives - but I really don't want to stop there, the more money we can raise the more lives can be saved. As you know I have been fortunate to volunteer and foster pups with this wonderful organization. Fostering 6 pups successfully so far has been a pure joy and probably gave me the greatest pleasure of my life. Seeing these pups come to us scared, sick and/or unwanted and then sending them to their forever homes healthy, confident and loved is more rewarding than words can express. We have also had the pleasure of a foster failure - our beautiful little Gypsy! (picture shown)

So now I am asking for your help - can you please help me reach my goal and save more lives?

As our new building is coming together, we are more and more capable of saving that many more pets from euthanasia. The Save a Life Drive gives us the ability to continue saving lives when adoptions and donations tend to decrease in the fall after school starts. As you can imagine, the numbers of animals needing to be saved does not correspondingly decrease this time of year so it is even more critical that we band together to give all those dogs and cats a happy ending.

Each animal costs us about $100 for spay/neuter, vaccinations, microchipping, testing, and parasite treatments. If we raise those funds, it will be that much easier for APA to continue paying the costs for housing, adoption sites, vehicles, and all the other costs that go into saving lives.

My goal is to raise $500 to save 5 lives!