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Help stop the relocation of our beloved animal shelter and the defenselss animals who have no choice

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Purred: Sun Sep 23, '07 11:09am PST 
Hi Pals! I'm not sure if other states or cities can vote in this,but it's worth a try(even if you can only sign the petition)...Our beloved animal shelter in Austin is in the midst of being relocated to the "dead end" of town...This is an unbelieveable act,and I am disguisted. I have written the city council and signed the petition...Please consider helping us keep the shelter where it is,and where our animals can have a chance! I have included the info and the links below ...

STOP THE DEAD-END SHELTER:
http://www.austinaction.org/petition/Stop+the+Dead+End+Shelter


Help Stop the Dead End Shelter

The City of Austin plans to move the Town Lake Animal Shelter from its current location on Caesar Chavez to a remote industrial location on the outskirts of the City's eastern edge - out of sight and out of mind.

According to a national shelter expert, locating a shelter in a highly visible location rather than at a remote location or on a dead-end street can literally double shelter adoptions. The proposed new site is an out-of-sight, out-of-mind location, far and away from the City's main adopters, which is certain to lead to fewer visitors, fewer volunteers, fewer adoptions, and even more killing. We already have a great location and there is no reason to relocate it to the outskirts of town.

With little-to-no public input or discussion, with no public vote by the Austin City Council, and with no analyses of the move's impact on adoptions, volunteers and return to owners, Shelter management has railroaded the relocation to East 7th and Airport. This is the same Shelter management that has been unable to reduce the kill and intake rates (despite doubling the budget) over the last seven years. Last year over, 12,000 homeless animals were killed and since 2000 under the current shelter management more than 70,000 animals have been killed.

A grass-roots effort has formed urging the City Council to use the voter-approved bond money to rebuild the Shelter where it is-Town Lake.

PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO SIGN OUR ONLINE PETITION TO
STOP THE DEAD-END SHELTER:
http://www.austinaction.org/petition/Stop+the+Dead+End+Shelter

SEND AN EMAIL TO AUSTIN CITY COUNCIL (scroll down for some talking points):
http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/council/groupemail.htm

VISIT FIXAUSTIN.ORG FOR MORE INFORMATION:
http://www.fixaustin.org/
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Purred: Sat Sep 29, '07 4:26pm PST 
I am not from there but understand your great concern and have signed the petition for you. Good luck and hope it stays where you all want it.

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Purred: Wed Oct 3, '07 5:28pm PST 
We signed! Have you used the Catster search by town option to try and contact all the cats in your area?
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Purred: Sat Oct 6, '07 2:04pm PST 
I live in Austin. One of the reasons why the shelter is relocating is that the physical space in which the existing shelter is located is not big enough to house the existing contingent of rescued cats and dogs that are funnelled through it. There is a lot of demand for space, both from found strays and from owner-relinquished pets. As a result, the kill rate at the shelter is over 50% now, since there is a lot more demand for space than amount of people who are lining up to adopt. The latter part is true for all Austin area animal shelters, although Town Lake (as the shelter is called) is one of the few remaining kill shelters in the city of Austin.

Meowmy says that she does not agree with the new location of the Town shelter, but due to the above mentioned problems, she does not see staying in the current location a good idea either. Have you visited the current location somewhat recently? Meowmy has. She felt bad for many of its four legged guests. The adults dogs have to share kennels like the pups do, because there hardly is enough space to ensure a kennel per dog. The cat facilities are small for the amount of cats they are supposed to house. And the cat for adoption room is so small that very few cats are put in there at a time to be showcased compared with the amount of total cats in the shelter. Meowmy never has been able to find a cat to adopt there, even when she really wanted to, because most of the adoptable cats are kept near the same facilities that house fears, and so the staff said it wouldn't be safe for her to look at cats that were not in the adoption room. She could never find a cat there that "spoke" to her, so she started looking at volunteer rescue groups (which is how she found me).

Meowmy says that since the location on Caesar Chavez does not allow for the expansions that would be needed to accomodate all of the animals, the ideal thing to do is to pressure the city council to come up with a new location that is somehow still central to the city, but that has enough room to house all the needy pets too. Just asking for the existing facilities back won't do. frown
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