This is a fantastic idea: Austin Pets Alive! regularly sets up adoption events along the Town Lake trail. You can stop and say hi to the puppies in the middle of your run. You can even stop by and volunteer to take on for a walk around Town Lake--how fun is that? I bet they adopt out so many puppies this way. I would have taken one home were home not a four-hour car ride away.
Austin Pets Alive! seems like a pretty good group. Their very noble mission is to turn Austin into a no-kill city--a big goal, but the strategies that they talk about on their website seems well researched and give me a lot of hope. Events the these bring the animals to the public and increase their likelihood of adoption.
It's the same theory that's behind those cat adoption centers at PetSmart. This is anecdotal, but one of my friends felt so sorry for the kitties living in those little booths, she asked the volunteer working their how long each cat's typical stay was. The volunteer told her that with in a week of going on display, they vast majority of these cats found adopted homes and very few were returned to their shelters.
No-kill agencies theorize that there are actually enough homes for all of the homeless animals in our country. The problem getting the animals to these homes. The solution, among other things, is methods to make the adoption process more palatable to the public.
Although I'm not an Austinite anymore, I'm considering making Austin Pets Alive! next's month's charitable donation. Hopefully success here will have ramifications for pets all over the country.
This is a fantastic idea: Austin Pets Alive! regularly sets up adoption events along the Town Lake trail. You can stop and say hi to the puppies in the middle of your run. You can even stop by and volunteer to take on for a walk around Town Lake--how fun is that? I bet they adopt out so many puppies this way. I would have taken one home were home not a four-hour car ride away.
Austin Pets Alive! seems like a pretty good group. Their very noble mission is to turn Austin into a no-kill city--a big goal, but the strategies that they talk about on their website seems well researched and give me a lot of hope. Events the these bring the animals to the public and increase their likelihood of adoption.
It's the same theory that's behind those cat adoption centers at PetSmart. This is anecdotal, but one of my friends felt so sorry for the kitties living in those little booths, she asked the volunteer working their how long each cat's typical stay was. The volunteer told her that with in a week of going on display, they vast majority of these cats found adopted homes and very few were returned to their shelters.
No-kill agencies theorize that there are actually enough homes for all of the homeless animals in our country. The problem getting the animals to these homes. The solution, among other things, is methods to make the adoption process more palatable to the public.
Although I'm not an Austinite anymore, I'm considering making Austin Pets Alive! next's month's charitable donation. Hopefully success here will have ramifications for pets all over the country.
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