Austin Animal Center opened in 2011 to accommodate 309 dogs and 165 cats. As of last week, it had 562 dogs and 669 cats.
The Austin Animal Center doesn’tto keep three puppies in a kennel meant for cats, but it does. And, it doesn'tto keep crates of large dogs in its loading dock in the middle of the Texas summer, but it has to.
Cler said things got worse after COVID-19 hit. People who adopted newborn or young pets weren’t able to socialize them. Their pets didn’t go to parks, didn’t interact with other animals and weren’t on bar patios with their people. Austin Pets Alive, a local animal rescue, argues the Austin Animal Center doesn’t have an overcrowding problem, it has a resource problem.
APA suggests transporting animals to other no-kill shelters in the northern United States, where APA said there is a higher demand for animals so they could be adopted out."There was quite a bit of backlash about our transport program, even though we were ensuring that these animals were going to other no-kill shelters," Cler said."Some people felt that we should have been able to adopt out those animals ourselves. So we struggled to get that program off the ground.
The Austin Animal Center doesn't want to lose its no-kill status, but Cler said the current system isn’t sustainable.
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