Oct 07, 2023

Austin Pets Alive! is a personal nonprofit devoted to eliminating the pointless killing of shelter pets. Now we have been extraordinarily profitable due to the technique we make use of to make Austin, and now different cities, No Kill.

Our No Kill technique is easy and two fold:

1. We save lives by drawing consideration to, and taking pets off, the each day euthanasia listing whereas

2. Permitting that spotlight to use stress on the town to get the right sources they should lower the euthanasia listing themselves.

In 2021, we labored with the town council on an modification to our metropolis contract that has brought on some neighborhood and authorities employees confusion that we hope to dispel with these three factors:

1. Foundational to APA! is to drag solely from the euthanasia listing to have a measurable impact on the kill charge which finally helped the town obtain No Kill standing in 2011. It is very important word that vital to this technique, and implied by the creation and use of a euthanasia listing to get rid of pets that they don’t have the sources to take care of, is that the town can handle and take care of all of the animals not on the euthanasia listing.

2. Our long run contract was terribly overdue and in want of an replace. The previous contract created in 2011 was constructed on a guesstimate of the scale of future years’ euthanasia lists; this contract stayed in impact for years previous its expiration date with extension after extension after extension which finally led to operational misalignment between AAC and APA!. This was resolved in contract negotiations in 2018, when it was mutually agreed that APA! would proceed to deal with the euthanasia listing, however all the time have a 12% minimal, so long as we used TLAC. Though that was documented in 2018, land points prevented it being signed and so in 2021, APA! labored with metropolis council to convey the extension-riddled contract in line operationally to match the settlement from 2018. The present contract wasn’t finalized till 2023 attributable to TLAC land points.

3. In response to the neighborhood demand that AAC do higher for the pets that aren’t on the euthanasia listing, the metropolis council has greater than doubled the AAC price range between 2008-2023 to permit AAC to scale back the euthanasia listing, present in home medical and behavioral care, in addition to neighborhood help to satisfy their acknowledged mission.