Sep 26, 2022
Austin used to be an excessively other town for prone better half animals simply 14 years in the past. One of the crucial animals maximum in peril have been doggies with parvovirus. Every day those tiny lives have been needlessly misplaced as a result of shelters did not have techniques set as much as deal with parvo.
Veterinarians discover ways to deal with parvo in class, so we puzzled why animal shelters couldn’t or wouldn’t. If those doggies may just incessantly be stored, why wasn’t remedy the norm? To
save those pets and build up lifesaving in Austin, we needed to get started
someplace — and protecting parvo doggies from being euthanized looked like a
excellent position to begin.
The Parvo Pet ICU, as we understand it lately, used to be born in a rest room in my space round Thanksgiving 2008. At its top I may just spend as much as 8 hours an afternoon cleansing and treating any place from a pair to twenty-five unwell doggies at a time. Fortunately,
my husband used to be very figuring out and keen to place up with the odor
of unwell doggies in our toilet. Despite the fact that it wasn’t perfect having the
sturdy and unforgettable scent of parvo in our house, it used to be the one means
to give protection to those pets in want and provides them the crucial care they
deserved.
We incessantly proportion the tale of the ICU’s humble beginnings as it
reminds us how a long way we’ve come. Even though I used to be incessantly the one one
cleansing up after that first batch of doggies, APA!’s capability to deal with animals in want continues to develop due to the assistance of pals such as you.

On account of our neighborhood’s resolution to make Austin No Kill, we have been ready, 11 years in the past, to business the toilet tile and pop-up crates for linoleum and steel kennels in a location with simple get right of entry to to our health facility and round the clock personnel. The desire for beef up didn’t finish once we moved to the Parvo Pet ICU at TLAC.
As of late, parvo doggies are nonetheless vulnerable to unnecessary euthanasia in shelters throughout Texas that haven’t but followed No Kill. As we rejoice the eleventh anniversary of No Kill in Austin and its persevered affect on pets at top chance of euthanasia we all know there may be nonetheless such a lot paintings to do to avoid wasting much more lives and lend a hand different shelters do the similar. Will you sign up for us lately?
With gratitude,
Ellen