Austin Pets Alive! takes in 1,000 pets post-Harvey

In a temporary shelter location inside a strip mall on Burnet Road, hundred of crated dogs and cats are tended to by Austin Pets Alive! volunteers and staff. Veterinarians are poking syringes of medication between grates. Cars pull up to the front doors to pick up animals headed for foster homes. Two volunteers carry a crate covered with a towel through the crowded front doors, a full-grown cat and a handful of kittens—too small to be separated from their mother—looking out with squinted eyes. As of Thursday, APA! has taken in more than 1,000 animals displaced or separated from their owners […]

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