Low Cost Spay/Neuter (Austin)
EMANCIPE+’s team of licensed veterinarians provide high quality, low cost spay/neuter surgery at the stationary clinic Monday through Saturday. An appointment IS REQUIRED for these clinics, and you can make an appointment via the Spay/Neuter Appointment Form.
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Top 10 Austin Pet Heroes of 2011
A Variety Of Pets Media based in Austin, Texas is comprised of radio shows and documentary videos highlighting heroes and pioneers. These individuals share their lives with two or more pets. The radio show portion has been featured in three magazines in two years and received an award in 2010.
Everyday individuals associated with non-profit rescue organizations devote great passion to furry or feather family members. Today these HEROES are being honored for their contributions.
#10 Humane Heroes are children under fourteen to young to volunteer. The Austin Humane Society created this program to empower children interested in helping the sheltered pets.
# 9 Therapy pet parents know the value of having their pets provide comfort to children, adults or patients. Of course, the therapy is also shared with family and staff members. Love-A-Bull’s program is called The Pit Crew and PAWS of Austin also offers Pet Therapy programs.
# 8 Stray cats share our communities. Feral Cat Feeders travel to cat colonies ensuring these living creatures are feed while other individuals have cats visit them in their yards. Click here to watch one man feed feral cats in east Austin. Everyday, these dynamic feeder heroes roam the neighbors of Austin.
# 7 Feral Cat Trappers believe TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return) is the only humane and logical method of lowering the feral cat population. In July, Austin Humane Society’s medical team spayed their 20,000th feral cat. One of Street Cat Rescue‘s missions is fixing (spay/neuter) feral cats.
# 6 Transporting pets from kill shelters to foster care is a rewarding experience. Pawsitive Karma Rescue is one of many rescue organizations seeking individuals to participate in relocating furry family members to a save environment. Beware, this adventure has become addicting to some pet lovers!
# 5 Volunteers who walk dogs or cuddle cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, ferrets, birds, hamsters, and gerbils housed at rescue organizations are heroes. It is a fact when individuals pet dogs or cats their stress level or blood pressue is lowered. All of these pets have personalities. Watch this video of the birds housed at Austin Avian Rescue and Rehabilitation. Great joy is encountered by these magnificent individuals while comforting pets.
# 4 Volunteer office assistances send e-mails, answer inquiries, and complete data entry duties along with other vital tasks. Non-profit rescue organizations can only survive when individuals offer their skills and expertise to ensure furry and feather family members are adopted to caring responsible individuals and families.
# 3 Trained volunteers were deployed to disaster areas such the Bastrop wildfires this year. Do you have an emergency plan in place to save you and your furry or feather family members? You should! PAWS of Austin is one non-profit organization ready for action.
#2 Foster Pet Parents save lives. These individuals and families open their hearts and homes to care for health or ill loving creatures. The members of Austin Animals Center’s Project Starfish posted stories of their adventures at this website. Several non-profit organizations such as Shiba Inu Rescue of Texas, Wee Rescue, From The Heart Rescue, and others rely totally on foster pet parents because they do not have an actual facility.
# 1 Responsible Pet Parents have there furry family members spay or neuter. In Austin, Animal Trustees of Austin offers low cost spay/neuter surgeries while Emancipet offers both low cost and free surgeries. Watch this short video of Emancipet’s new mobile clinic and the clients they serve.
There are over a hundred non-profit pet rescue organizations within the Austin, Texas area. Click here to review the list of partners currently associated with Austin Animal Center. The rewards of being a hero are limitless. By volunteering you share your expertise, gain new skills, meet new friends, and help furry or feather family members.
Come join the fun in 2012.
Animal Welfare Groups
Whole Foods Market supports Austin animal organizations
Love Your Pet Day
Meet heroes and pioneers making a difference in the pet world every day and learn more about their events.
True pet reality with some passionate humans.
My book video:
Stories Of Multiple Pets – Austin, TX
True Pet HEROES – a grandmother & grandson
Volunteers 50 years of age and older care for pets
A program where at-risk youths team up with shelter dogs
Austin Animal Center Volunteers, Tara Stermer, and shelter dogs
3 Capes in Austin, Texas honoring pet heroes.
A-CAT-EMY Awards in San Antonio on National Feral Cat Day
Al aka Alley Cat in Philadelphia
A Cape honors responsible pet parents – Héroe de Mascotas en Austin – SPANISH VIDEO
Honoring Desperate Housecats Team with a Cape
Honoring Foster Pet Guardians in ATX
Transporting Felines to a Foster Home
Puppy Mill Awareness Day Texas
Four Animal Welfare Groups and my first Foster Kittens
Charlie and Lucy are blind and deaf loving canines
Georgetown Animal Shelter and Training By Tara
Honoring a Desperate Housecats adopter
TLAC’s Project Starfish (Foster Homes)
FREE spay and neuter by Emancipet Part 1 of 2
FREE spay and neuter by Emancipet Part 2 of 2
Yes, the following are four Spanish videos:
Cuando la Calor Llega
No le deberia pasar a un perro
Esterelizacion de mascotas Gratis primera Parte 1 de 2
Esterilazacion y Castracion Gratis Por Emancipet Parte 2 de 2
Deaf Dogs, Blind Dogs, Deaf and Blind Dogs
Maggie and Mike on disabled cats
Fostering Cats with Mike & Maggie
The Pit Crew in ATX part 1 of 2
The Pit Crew in ATX part 2 of 2
What is STEPPED IN in Austin part 1 of 2
What is STEPPED IN in Austin part 2 of 2
Mardi Gras Pet Parade in Galveston featuring Houston Area Ferret Association
Caring for Chinchillas, Gerbils, Guinea Pigs and Hamsters
Feral Cat Program in ATX part 1 of 4
Feral Cat Program in ATX part 2 of 4
Feral Cat Program in ATX part 3 or 4
Feeding Feral Cats in east Austin TX – Part 4 of 4
ASPCA Partner Communities
There are four animal organizations in Austin involved with this project. The Austin Partners are Animal Trustees of Austin (ATA), Austin Humane Society (AHS), Emancipet and Town Lake Animal Center (TLAC). ASPCA knows there are no “quick fixes” to ending the unnecessary euthanasia of animals. They do know and have proof that collaboration among all groups in a community in striving to reduce the euthanasia of these animals can work.
Meet the Austin, TX Partners of ASPCA Professional
Meet the Partners
Animal Trustees of Austin
Nonprofit animal welfare organization
Programs & services: Spay/neuter and wellness clinic, adoptions, emergency assistance care fund, feral cat advocacy
Austin Humane Society
Nonprofit shelter
Programs & services: Adoptions, intake, feral cat spay/neuter, pet loss support, dog training, foster program
emanciPET
Mobile and stationary spay/neuter clinics
Programs & services: Free and low-cost spay/neuter and wellness services
Town Lake Animal Center
City-funded open-intake facility
Programs & services: Adoptions, intake, animal protection, lost & found, community outreach, vaccination & microchip clinics, foster program
Collaboration is a Key Component of the ASPCA Partnership
Increasing Positive Outcomes:
• Town Lake Animal Center (TLAC) continues to conduct awareness and outreach activities to assist pet owners in finding lost pets.
• TLAC dedicated $50,000 to fund free microchips for dogs and cats in high-intake, low-income neighborhoods.
• Free microchips continue to be provided through Emancipet and Animal Trustees of Austin (ATA).
• Austin Humane Society (AHS) and TLAC continue to make cats and dogs available for adoption seven days a week. As a result, combined adoptions grew by 717 animals.
• AHS and TLAC both implemented fee-waived adoptions for cats five years of age and older all year long.
• AHS continued programs to provide behavior modification and shelter enrichment, including the Click to Calm training protocol, the ASPCA food-guarding training, a hand-feeding program for dogs and clicker training for cats.
• AHS continues to consult with professional behaviorists in the Austin area to provide evaluations and develop specific programs for dogs.
• AHS and TLAC expanded their foster homes for underage and sick/injured animals through a large network of foster families.
• The Austin Humane Society had over 260 active foster homes in 2009 and placed over 1200 animals into its foster program.
• TLAC transferred 896 to Austin Humane Society. The combined total transfers to AHS and other non-partner organizations increased by 28% or 1,049 animals.
Reducing Intake:
• ATA provided 5,389 low-cost and 805 free (City of Austin FREE CAT DAYS) spay/neuter surgeries.
• Emancipet provided approximately 10,100 low-cost and 6,500 free surgeries. The free surgeries are targeted to reach animals in neighborhoods with high numbers of unwanted pets and high rates of intake at the City’s Town Lake Animal Center. The largest program providing free surgery is Emancipet’s partnership with the City of Austin and Travis County, which subsidized 3,600 free surgeries through the Emancipet Mobile Clinic. This program provided 120 “free days,” where pet owners line up at dawn for a chance to access free surgery, rabies vaccinations, and microchips.
Another free spay/neuter program offered by Emancipet in partnership with the City of Austin is “Spay Street.” Bringing education, resources, and free spay/neuter to the doorsteps of needy pet owners, Spay Street representatives reduce animal homelessness and suffering one household at a time. This program served approximately 900 animals living in poverty stricken neighborhoods in Austin.
• AHS’ feral cat coordinator worked with more than 200 feral cat trappers in Austin and surrounding communities. Its high-volume Feral Cat Spay/Neuter Clinic provided over 5,100 free spay/neuters in 2009. Kitten intake at Town Lake Animal Center decreased by 732 animals
in 2009.
• Emancipet’s low-cost spay/neuter service is available for feral cats six days per week, which ensures that any time a feral cat is trapped, it can be altered at one of the partner agencies within 24 hours.
• There are nearly 960 volunteers serving all four ASPCA partner agencies. These volunteers assist with all functions of animal care and customer service for a total of more than 66,000 hours of donated time in 2009.
• In 2009, ATA provided wellness services to 25,846 animals, low-cost heartworm treatment for 477 animals, dentals for 375 animals, 705 special surgeries, and provided $56,000 (plus $50K from the TLAC for Parvo treatment) in emergency care assistance for animals suffering from life threatening illnesses or injuries. Animal Trustees’ 4PAWS (For People and Animals Without Shelter) provided all of the above services free to the 60-plus animals of the homeless and indigent citizens of Central Texas.
• Emancipet offered affordable preventive vet care for responsible pet owners at convenient “walk up” clinics. Services are restricted to puppies and kittens or adult animals who are already spayed or neutered, and are limited to vaccinations, flea and tick control products, deworming, and heartworm preventative products. The Walk Up Wellness clinics served approximately 10,000 pets.
• AHS’ BRATT (Behavior Re-homing Assessment Training Team) program provided behavioral rehabilitation for approximately 300 dogs to increase adoptability and retention in the home.
• A partnership between TLAC and ATA provides orthopedic and other trauma care to shelter animals so they can be adopted or returned to their owner. TLAC also utilized donated funds through this partnership to assist families with animals in need of trauma care, so the family
will not be forced to surrender the pet.
• In 2009, the ASPCA’s Humane Education curriculum was implemented in the Austin Independent School District’s (AISD) after-school and science programs. The after-school program at the 21st Century Learning Center consists of one hour per week of humane education topics for a total of 15 weeks. In addition, science teachers in AISD were trained to implement the ASPCA’s Humane Education curriculum in their classrooms.
• TLAC provided pet ownership classes, free rabies vaccinations and pet registration clinics for approximately 2,500 families, animal cruelty classes, PALS Senior Pet Days, and dog safety and bite prevention instruction at kids’ camps.
Free Spay/Neuter in East Austin, Texas!
Free sterilization (spaying and neutering) for pets who live in the City of Austin and Travis County is available at the EMANCIPE+ Mobile Clinic on Thursdays and Saturdays. These services are for clients who cannot afford the low-cost options available at EMANCIPE+ or another clinic.
NO APPOINTMENT IS REQUIRED FOR THESE SERVICES – ALL CLIENTS WILL BE ADMITTED ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED BASIS, AND ADMISSION CANNOT BE GUARANTEED. ARRIVE EARLY FOR THE BEST CHANCE OF GETTING IN.
Every Week:
Emancipet will be at the South Rural Community Center every Thursday.
April
6th – Friday – Givens Recreation Center at 3811 E. 12th
6th – Friday – South East Austin Community Library at 5803 Nuckols Crossing
7th – Saturday – South East Austin Community Library at 5803 Nuckols Crossing
13th – Friday – Rosewood-Zaragosa Neighborhood Center at 2800 Webberville Rd.
13th – Friday – Montopolis Recreation Center at 1200 Montopolis Dr.
14th – Saturday – Montopolis Recreation Center at 1200 Montopolis Dr.
20th – Friday – St. John’s Neighborhood Center at 7500 Blessing
20th – Friday – South East Austin Community Library at 5803 Nuckols Crossing
21st – Saturday – South East Austin Community Library at 5803 Nuckols Crossing
27th – Friday – Gus-Garcia Recreation Center at 1201 E. Rundberg Lane
27th – Friday – Montopolis Recreation Center at 1200 Montopolis Dr.
28th – Saturday – Montopolis Recreation Center at 1200 Montopolis Dr.
