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AUSTIN, SAN ANTONIO, CENTRAL TEXAS
ANIMAL SHELTERS, S.P.C.A.s &
HUMANE SOCIETIES
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AUSTIN, SAN ANTONIO, CENTRAL TEXAS
CAT RESCUE & CAT ADOPTION
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AUSTIN, SAN ANTONIO, CENTRAL TEXAS
DOG RESCUE & DOG ADOPTION
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Austin German Shepherd Rescue
Austin German Shepherd Dog Rescue (AGSDR)
(serving Austin & the
Central Texas area)
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Austin Sheltie Rescue Group
Austin Sheltie Rescue Group
(serving Central Texas)
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BLUE DOG RESCUE
Blue Dog Rescue, Inc.
(serving Austin &
Central Texas)
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Cocker Spaniel Rescue of Austin/San Antonio
Cocker Spaniel Rescue of Austin/San Antonio (CSR)
(serving the State of Texas)
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DiamonD DACHSHUND RESCUE OF TEXAS
Diamond Dachshund Rescue Of Texas (DDRTX)
(serving San Antonio & surrounding areas)
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German Shepherd Dog Rescue of San Antonio, Texas
German Shepherd Dog Rescue of San Antonio
(GSDR of San Antonio)
(serving the San Antonio area)
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German Shepherd Rescue of Central Texas
German Shepherd Rescue of Central Texas (GSDRescueCTx)
(serving Central Texas including
Austin, Waco, Killeen, New Braunfels, Bastrop,
Dripping Springs & surrounding areas)
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Gold Ribbon Rescue
Gold Ribbon Rescue (GRR)
(serving Austin, San Antonio
& Central Texas)
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HEART OF TEXAS GREYHOUND ADOPTION, INC.
Heart of Texas Greyhound Adoption, Inc. (H.O.T.)
(serving the San Antonio area)
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Heart of Texas Lab Rescue
Heart of Texas Lab Rescue, Inc. (HOTLR)
(serving Austin, San Antonio,
Houston, & surrounding areas)
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helping hands BASSET RESCUE (Central Texas)
Helping Hands Basset Rescue (HHBR)
(serving Round Rock & Central Texas)
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Hill Country Greyhound Adoption
Hill Country Greyhound Adoption, Inc. (HCGA)
(serving Seguin, San Antonio,
Corpus Christi, & surrounding areas)
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PAWS OF AUSTIN
Protection for Animal Welfare Services of Austin (PAWS)
(serving the Austin area)
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Ponderosa Pomeranian Rescue Inc
Ponderosa Pomeranian Rescue, Inc. (PPR)
(serving the Austin area)
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San Antonio Chihuahua Rescue
San Antonio Chihuahua Rescue (SACR)
(serving the San Antonio,
Austin, & Hill Country areas)
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San Antonio Doberman Rescue
San Antonio Doberman Advocacy and Rescue (SA/DAR)
(serving the San Antonio area)
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People have come together worldwide and in the State of Texas to
assist a special class of friends unable to speak for themselves
— our pets and companion animals. These people have formed
humane societies and animal adoption and rescue agencies of local,
regional, national and even international scope. Most humane societies
and animal rescue agencies are not-for-profit organizations, relying
upon donations, grants and volunteer assistance. The focus and goals of
each agency vary, but as a group they serve to perform and promote the
following important functions:
- Protection, rescue and placement (through adoption or return to owner)
of lost, endangered and abused domestic animals;
- Education of pet owners and prospective pet owners regarding the
health, safety and proper care of pets;
- Operation of clinics to insure that even low-income pet owners can have
their animals innoculated against common diseases;
- Sponsorship of humane programs to limit or reduce populations of
domestic animals that have, through abandonment and subsequent
overbreeding, become feral (wild); such programs typically include
sterilization (neutering) and redomestication;
- Introduction and sponsorship of legislation regarding protection of
animals.
If you would like to become a pet owner (Pet caretaker is a better
term; if you are a true pet lover you realize that pets should not be
treated as property and that your pets really own you.) in Austin, San
Antonio or the Central Texas region and believe you can do so responsibly
(See our
Pet
Health & Safety Tips.), please consider pet adoption from
a Texas animal shelter, humane society or a pet adoption and rescue
agency. When you adopt a dog, cat, or other pet, you provide love and
care to an animal who might otherwise never find a home. Hundreds of
thousands of abandoned or lost pets are euthanized annually in the U.S.
alone because no one comes to their aid and the cost to maintain them
in animal shelters is simply too high. Dogs and cats are the preferred
pets of Americans; sadly, this makes them the most abundant and hence,
as a group, the most neglected. Let’s each do our part to help all
of our “fur-footed” friends find the good homes they so richly
deserve; adopt a dog, cat or other pet or donate to a Texas pet
adoption agency.
Authored by Kenneth L. Anderson.
Original article published 14 May 2005, updated 27 June
2005.
Follow links to the right to learn more about Austin, San Antonio and Central Texas
animal protection organizations, which include dog adoption and rescue
agencies, cat adoption and rescue agencies, and other pet adoption and
rescue agencies such as humane societies and S.P.C.A.s.
At the left margin, Related Links address topics of interest
pertaining to pets and companion animals. View the
Pet Adoption & Rescue SiteMap
for a complete list of animal adoption agencies, humane societies and pet placement topics.
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