Jun 10, 2022

The Nationwide Climate Service has issued a warmth advisory for the Austin space, with temperatures anticipated to achieve harmful and lethal ranges. 

With forecasted highs above 105 levels Saturday and Sunday, we’re activating emergency measures to maintain our animals secure within the excessive climate circumstances. At the moment we’re additionally urgently asking to your assist!

As vital members of the APA! group, we’re dedicated to protecting you conscious of our preparedness plans, high priorities, and what we’d like most to proceed our lifesaving work:

Undertake or Foster Right now!

With the pressure the intense warmth places on our animals, workers, amenities, and the facility grid, we’re urgently asking to your assist now to get our animals out of the shelter earlier than temperatures attain the best ranges anticipated. We’re calling on you to assist us get 70 of our most susceptible animals into houses earlier than Sunday! We have now each adoption and fostering choices obtainable and to assist expedite our efforts to get animals into houses we’re waiving adoption charges* till June sixteenth for ALL our pets. This supply contains the practically 40 cute puppies onsite at TLAC. Go to our City Lake location between midday and 6 p.m. Friday or Saturday to assist get a pet in a house. No appointment is required!

Donate to Assist Our Lifesaving Work By this Emergency and Past!

We’re calling on everybody to guard the animals who want them most throughout this excessive warmth. The common temperature in Austin in June is 93 levels with a soar to 98 levels in August. With thermometers hovering greater than 10 levels larger in early June, some climate consultants are anticipating that the summer season of 2022 is on monitor to interrupt information.

The brutally sizzling temperatures convey a plethora of issues for our shelter: rising electrical energy prices, additional time for workers, and a rise in provide wants that transcend the cooling gear generously donated up to now. Because the warmth wave just isn’t restricted to Central Texas, we’re additionally offering assist to companion shelters throughout the state.

As you obtain this electronic mail, our groups are utilizing mister followers and swamp coolers generously donated by associates such as you to convey some reduction to our canine in kennels. We’re additionally utilizing swamp coolers and child swimming pools in our play yards and making room inside our buildings for animals struggling of their kennels. We’re additionally putting mister followers and extra sunshades close to the cat barns. Ice packs and ice water are being put out for barn and truckport cats, and common rounds are happening 24/7 to watch all animals.

Along with your assist, we will present our animals with the very best care throughout this hazardous Texas warmth proper now and all through what might be a particularly sizzling summer season. Will you donate to assist us at this time?

Lastly, take a look at our weblog submit with our sizzling climate suggestions to make sure that the pets in your house and neighborhood are staying secure.

To remain updated on our excessive climate response efforts, verify our weblog and social media for the newest information. Thanks for every thing you do for our most susceptible pets. Keep secure and funky Austin!