SaL10 - Suzanne Krause

Save a Life Drive 2010!

The dog pictured above, Dingo, is available for adoption at Austin Pets Alive. To see all our adoptable animals, please visit www.austinpetsalive.org !

I recently got my second dog, a boxer mix named Sophie, from Austin's animal shelter, which kills dogs not in their adoption program after just a couple of days. Sophie had a cold and she had mange, and she had been wandering the streets in north Austin so she was pretty skinny. Not to mention she has heart worms. So no surprise that the shelter decided she just wasn't adoptable despite her ridiculous enthusiasm for life and her stellar disposition! She was hours away from being killed but I was lucky enough to find her, and now she's super healthy and happy. There are many dogs at the shelter in her same situation and their only hope is to have a rescue group like Austin Pets Alive! come by and take them away, spruce them up and give them an opportunity to find a new family through their awesome adoption program. APA! will really put your donation to good work!

As the new Austin Pets Alive 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 $300 to save 3 lives!