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How to Help Texas Animal Rescues and Shelters Affected by Freezing Weather

“We are facing Pupageddon,” the rescue group Dallas DogRRR – Rescue.Rehab.Reform wrote on its Facebook page Feb. 18. Record-breaking freezing temperatures have left millions without heat or electricity in Texas, including animals and the people who rescue and shelter them.

Here’s what you can do to help some of these shelters and rescues. If you know of others that need help due to the freezing weather, please leave a comment and I’ll add them to the list.

Austin Pets Alive!

Austin Pets Alive! (APA!) is serving as a “mega-center” during this disaster, according to a Feb. 19 post on its Facebook page.

“Despite facing countless challenges, including a days-long power outage, impassable roads, water loss, and facility damage, APA! has continued life-saving efforts,” wrote the nonprofit, which is dedicated to keeping Austin no-kill.

In the coming weeks, APA! estimates that over 5,000 animals in Austin and the surrounding areas will need help. “Our team is already fielding requests to pull animals from hard-hit areas across the state and we continue to receive requests for help with food, bedding, water and supplies as so many are displaced from their homes,” APA! wrote on its website.

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Dallas DogRRR

“It’s bad here in the Rio Grande Valley—really really bad. Moms frozen with their babies, people trying to put together makeshift shelters and tents for some strays, the dogs are dropping like flies!” wrote an animal rescuer in the Rio Grande Valley who is partnered with Dallas DogRRR, a group of volunteers that rescue animals mainly in the southeast Dallas area.

“The shelters are bursting,” the volunteer wrote. “Owner surrenders right and left. Shelter having issues with frozen bursting pipes. Trying to hold the cold back and find rescue to get the dogs out.”

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Yaqui Animal Rescue

Located in Sullivan City in the Rio Grande Valley, Yaqui Animal Rescue is a no-kill, non-profit shelter on an 80-acre ranch. According to its website, the Rio Grande Valley and neighboring cities have the largest stray animal population in the United States.

This week Yaqui Animal Rescue lost power and all of its pipes broke, leaving the shelter without water.

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Houston SPCA

As temperatures plunged to single digits, the Houston SPCA received about 150 phone calls each day about animals left outside in the freezing cold, CNN reports.

The nonprofit’s team of 10 cruelty investigators has been putting in long hours saving the lives of these animals.

“Now that we are warming up … now is when our work is really going to start,” Julie Kuenstle, Houston SPCA vice president of communications, told CNN. “That’s what usually happens with a disaster.”

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How to Help Animal Shelters and Rescues Affected by Hurricane Harvey

 

For updated information about how to help animal shelters in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico after the recent catastrophic hurricanes, click here.

Hurricane Harvey has been wreaking havoc on the Houston area for days. This morning, for the first time in its history, a dam overflowed, which will cause even more devastating flooding.

Animal shelters and rescues throughout Texas and neighboring states are taking in as many displaced dogs and other pets as they can. They need donations of cash and supplies — and, especially, volunteers to provide foster homes for all those homeless pets. Here’s what you can do to help some of these shelters and rescues.

If you know of other shelters or rescues that need help due to Harvey, please leave a comment and I’ll add them to the list.

SPCA of Texas

The SPCA of Texas, located in Dallas, is “putting every available resource behind assisting pets and people who have evacuated the Gulf Coast to the North Texas area,” according to its website. “We are deploying staff, volunteers and supplies to support evacuees housed at the mega shelter opening in Dallas, working with city and county disaster officials to care for the pets of evacuees.”

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Tall Tails Animal Rescue

When a dam was opened without warning Aug. 28 near Hankamer, Texas, where Tall Tails Animal Rescue is located, the nonprofit’s kennels were flooded with over a foot of rising water, putting the lives of over 100 dogs in danger.

After Tall Tails founders Kat K Tschirgi and Kevin Miller put out cries for help on social media, volunteers in boats arrived to save some of the dogs. This video of the rescue effort, posted by Miller on Facebook, has been viewed more than 166,000 times.

The nonprofit Dallas DogRRR is collecting cash and supply donations on behalf of Tall Tails Animal Rescue.

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Austin Pets Alive!

The Austin Pets Alive! (APA!) shelter, which itself was flooded during a 2015 storm, has been taking in hundreds of homeless pets from Houston.

“As we continue to care for the animals we have already saved, we have to prepare for even more animals who will need us in the coming days,” APA!, a nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping Austin no kill, notes on its website.

“We’ve been receiving reports from shelter partners in areas hit hardest by the hurricane and areas expecting the most flooding that … they are anticipating another significant influx of animals that they may not be able to help. We have also heard reports of extensive lines of people surrendering their pets, so Austin Pets Alive! needs to be ready to help and brace ourselves for additional animal intake.”

You can help by:

  • Donating needed items: Check the APA! website for its updated top current needs. Thanks to donations, it currently has enough crates, canned and dry dog food, and Clorox Wipes.
  • Making a cash donation.
  • Permanently adopting a large dog, as long as you have no other dogs. Short-term fosters are not currently needed.

Houston SPCA

Located at ground zero, the Houston SPCA needs cash donations, which fortunately have been pouring in from near and far — including over $160 from some awesome Hamburg, N.Y., school kids who raised the money by selling lemonade.

“The animals are cared for and safe,” Houston SPCA wrote on its Facebook page Aug. 28. “We have been overwhelmed with gratitude by the outpouring of support from the community.”

Photo via Kevin Miller/Facebook

How to Help Animal Shelters and Rescues Affected by Texas Floods

AUGUST 2017 UPDATE: Here’s how to help animal shelters and rescues affected by Hurricane Harvey.

JUNE 3, 2016 UPDATE: Exactly one year later, Texas is again being pounded by record-breaking rain. Here’s information about how to help more animal shelters and rescues.

Texas, as you know, has been deluged with rain over the past couple of weeks, resulting in devastating flooding.

Animal shelters and rescues throughout the state are being overwhelmed by the influx of homeless pets. The following are just a few that need our help so they can continue helping these four-legged flood victims.

Dallas DogRRR

Back in March, Dallas DogRRR–Rescue.Rehab.Reform. made news headlines twice: for rescuing a puppy daddy who led volunteers to his puppy mama and their litter; and, just two weeks later, for rescuing “Pitty and Kitty,” a starving Pit Bull and the abandoned 2-day-old kitten she was nursing.

Now, after severe weather hit the area, Dallas DogRRR really needs our help.

“Boarding, vet bills and supporting the fosters are costing us thousands, and especially with the recent flooding and weather here in Texas, we’re struggling keeping up our donations to support those efforts,” said volunteer Jennifer Garrison.

You can make a donation to Dallas DogRRR through their Crowdwise donation site.

Dallas DogRRR also needs to find forever homes for homeless dogs like best friends Ellie and Lily. Ellie is a young Black Lab who thinks she’s a lap dog. She gets along well with other dogs, cats and kids. Lily is a Chocolate Lab mix who has a big personality and, like Ellie, also gets along well with other dogs, cats and older kids. For more information, email LindsayDallasDogRRR@yahoo.com.

The rescue will be holding two dog adoption events this month at these Texas locations:

  • June 6 – Hollywood Feed, 2170 FM 423, Little Elm; 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
  • June 27 – Alamo Drafthouse, 100 S. Central Expressway, Richardson; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Austin Pets Alive!

When local animal lovers found out the Austin Pets Alive! shelter had been flooded over Memorial Day weekend (that’s the shelter in the photo at the top of this post), they lined up in the rain to do what they could to help. Many of them fostered the displaced pets, while many others helped clean up the mess at the shelter.

Thanks to these awesome people, as well as a grant from the Petco Foundation, APA! was able to save 340 animals.

To make a donation to help APA! help more animals, click here. The rescue will also be holding several fundraising events this month. Check its website for the dates and locations.

Maybe the city’s famous slogan “Keep Austin Weird” should be changed to “Keep Austin Weird — and Compassionate!”

Houston SPCA

“Due to the severe weather, there have been a lot of stray animals caught in precarious situations,” Lisa Rotter, community outreach manager for the Houston SPCA, told ABC News last week, after a tornado swept through part of the city.

Volunteers supplied loving care, food and water to four-legged survivors staying in an American Red Cross evacuation center, while other volunteers worked at the Houston SPCA shelter.

“Dedicated staff and volunteers made their way to the Houston SPCA despite flooding and road closures to ensure that the animals are cared for and safe,” the Houston SPCA wrote on its Facebook page May 26.

To make a donation to the Houston SPCA, click here.

Photos: Austin Pets Alive! Facebook page; courtesy of Dallas DogRRR; Houston SPCA Facebook page

Pitty and Kitty She Nursed Will Get a Forever Home Together

A volunteer with Dallas Dogrrr–Rescue.Rehab.Reform. thought she was only rescuing a starving Pit Bull who’d been dumped by the side of a Dallas road last week. But an employee at a nearby junkyard told her the dog, who had recently had puppies, was nursing a two-day-old kitten who had also been abandoned.

Sure enough, when the volunteer found the kitten and brought her to the Pit Bull, the dog immediately cleaned her as she would one of her own puppies, and began nursing her.

The volunteer took them to Mercy Animal Clinic in Garland, Texas, where the pair is now under the care of Dr. Rick Hamlin.

The Pit Bull “had been nursing the kitten and had just dried up,” Dr. Hamlin told ABC News. He said the kitten would have died within a day, and the timing of the Dallas Dogrrr volunteer finding them was “the stars aligning.”

The dog and kitten, who both happen to be black and white, have been named Pitty and Kitty (although Dallas Dogrrr refers to them as Wilma and Pebbles on their Facebook page).

Dr. Hamlin takes Kitty home at night to bottle-feed her. The first night he removed her from the cage she shares with Pitty, the Pit Bull started howling. “It was the first vocalization she made since she arrived,” he told ABC News.

When Kitty was returned to their cage the next morning, Pitty “cleaned and cleaned and cleaned” her, Dr. Hamlin said. “It was a tremendous reunion.”

He told ABC News, “Pitty adopted Kitty and provided maternal needs for Kitty. Hysteria around Pit Bulls is exactly that.” Right on, doctor!

The pair will only be adopted together. According to Mercy Animal Clinic’s Facebook page, Pitty and Kitty “have a potential adopter who lives very close!”

Dallas Dogrrr was in the news earlier this month for rescuing a dog who lead them through the woods to a mother dog and their puppies. To help them continue their great work saving abandoned animals, you can make a donation via their new gofundme.com page.

Photo via Facebook

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