An Internet Resource for Those Who Want to Help
An Internet Resource for Those Who Want to Help
The volunteers of Austin Pets Alive! have organized themselves into committees. These are action committees, not deliberation committees. They are formed for work, not for meetings. Each is designed to promote some component of the plan to reach the goal of A No-Kill Millennium in Austin.
Business Outreach
Locate, promote, and develop support from Austin businesses for the Town Lake Animal Center and owners of sterilized pets - donations of goods and services to the Center, discounts for owners of sterilized pets or adopters of animals from the Center, employee benefits, such as paying for adoption fees or the cost of sterilization.
Locate, promote, and develop support from Austin animal care professionals (veterinarians, animal trainers, groomers, etc.) for the Town Lake Animal Center and owners of sterilized pets - free or discounted services for animals at the Center and for owners of sterilized pets and pets adopted from the Center.
Chair - Lorri Michel
(512)452-2481
lorrim@austin.clgp.com
Professional Advisor - Greg A. Biehle, D.V.M.
(512)479-8800
Facilities Expansion
Develop and implement ways to increase the holding capacity of the Town Lake Animal Center - more kennels and more efficient use of kennels at the Center, construction of off-site kennels, purchase, lease, or donation of off-site kennel space.
Chair - Cheri Courtney
(512)250-0985
doncher@aol.com
Financial Support
Develop and oversee a fund into which donations can be made to help reach the No-Kill Millennium and find ways in which donations can easily be made - for example, a trust fund set up by the City with a One Dollar check-off on the City electric bills, like the tree-planting check-off that currently exists.
Chair -
Education and Communication
Plan, implement, and monitor an advertising campaign for the Town Lake Animal Center - the crisis of pet overpopulation, the need to sterilize pets, promotion of the Center as an adoption source, both generally and with regard to specific animals, and advertising lost animals being held at the Center for owners to find.
Maintain regular communications with the members of Austin Pets Alive! - newsletter, telephone tree, direct mail, e-mail.
Educate political leaders on the goals of the No-Kill Millennium, monitor the commitment of the elected officials and their staff to the goals, and educate political leaders on the policy and legal changes necessary to reach the goals.
Chair - Judy Ford
(512)837-5113
anmllvrs@hotmail.com
TLAC Volunteers
Direct care volunteers to work with the animals at the Town Lake Animal Center. These volunteers will do everything - exercising, feeding, and grooming animals, cleaning cages, administering medication, evaluation for adoptability, adoption counseling, transporting animals, and caring for animals at adoption days away from the Center.
Volunteers to perform clerical support services at the Center.
Recruit and coordinate animal rescue groups - educate on the possibility of and criteria for qualifying to rescue animals from the Town Lake Animal Center, facilitate the rescue of animals from the Center by rescue groups, act as liaison between rescue groups and the Center.
Chair - Jim Collins
(512)837-5113
lobo_viejo@hotmail.com
To sign up for a volunteer orientation or other training, contact:
Sarah Bradley
(512)707-9198
sarah@tlta.org
If you would like to be part of this effort to stop the killing of adoptable companion animals as a method for dealing with pet overpopulation, please visit the How to Join Austin Pets Alive! page at The Wolf's Eye on the World Wide Web at http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/9173/apajoin.html or contact Judith Ann Ford, of Austin Pets Alive!, either by e-mail at anmllvrs@hotmail.com, by telephone at (512)837-5113, by fax at (512)458-6461 (Box #198), or by mail to Austin Pets Alive!, 8760-A Research Blvd. #198, Austin, Texas 78758-6240.
If you are already a member of Austin Pets Alive! and want to join one of the committees, please feel free to contact the committee chairs directly. They can all use your help. There is so much to do to save the animals and never enough people to do it all.
To learn more about this or other animal rescue issues, visit The Wolf's Eye on the World Wide Web at http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/9173.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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