Ryan Clinton

The Austin City Council is considering a proposal from Austin's failed animal-shelter manager Don Bland to euthanize more animals, euthanize animals faster, and euthanize animals without publicly reporting their deaths. The proposal is Item #2 on next week's City Council agenda. If you are an animal lover, please email the Austin City Council and ask them to vote "NO" on Item #2. You can email all of them at once through this link: https://www.austintexas.gov/email/all-council-members

You can read more about the proposal here: https://www.ryanclinton.org/animal-center-proposes-faster-nonpublic-euthanasia

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Fostering saves lives!

A family fostered a dog for 2 nights. The pup saved them from a fire. ‘It was a really scary situation. Time was critical,’ said Chris Cushna, who fostered Moose for 2 nights. ‘It’s amazing that no one got hurt.’

Last week, the Austin City Council voted to extend Austin Pets Alive!’s lease in downtown Austin while allowing APA to extend its lifesaving mission beyond Central Texas. I spoke in favor of the decision. But the most effective speaker, by a wide margin, was a veteran named Greg. Greg spoke about how Austin Pets Alive has changed his life for the better. He spoke about how he had tried every prescription and every therapy to recover from the traumatic stress he had endured serving our country. And he spoke about how Austin Pets Alive, its community of animal lovers, and the animals themselves, had helped him heal, recover, and find new strength and meaning. No one could have said it better. So here’s to Greg, and all of the veterans who have served this country and continue to make us better people and better communities. Thank you for everything you’ve done and continue to do to serve.

In 2008, my wife and I joined Dr. Ellen Jefferson and a few friends to start an animal rescue group, Austin Pets Alive!, which has since saved more than 80,000 pets at risk of euthanasia. Our first foster dog, Lizzie, was a little shepherd puppy set to be euthanized by our local shelter. She went to a wonderful family and lived a long life. This week, they had to say goodbye. Rest easy, sweet girl.

Austin Animal Center is packed full of adoptable pets, so it is waiving adoption fees! Please help keep Austin, Texas, the safest place in America to be a homeless pet by adopting or fostering from Austin Animal Center today!

Austin Animal Center in desperate need of adoptions, fees waived The center posted a video on their Instagram this week showing animals being placed in make-shift spaces as kennels are filled