Community Engagement Opportunity
Friday, May 5, 2023 by Elizabeth Pagano
This Saturday, Austin Animal Center is preparing yourself for “kitten season” with a kitten shower that intends to notify about cultivating and gather contributions for the on-site nursery. The shower will be kept in AAC’s meeting room from 2-4 p.m., and city authorities are requesting things like “gallon ziplock bags, meat-based baby food, baby blankets, hand warmers, and Kitten Milk Replacer,” according to a news release about the occasion.
But it’s not just cats that are crowding the city shelter. On Wednesday, Austin Animal Shelter received a seizure of 20 big dogs, pressing it well past its capability, which is 272, into housing 344 medium or big dogs. To help reduce the crowding, which requires dogs into cages and nonpublic kennels, the shelter is asking the neighborhood to think about cultivating dogs for a minimum of a month, or embracing. At the minute, adoption charges are $25 through Bissell Pet Foundation’s “Empty the Shelters” nationwide adoption occasion and waived totally for any dog that remains in a dog crate.
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