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AUSTIN TX AREA - IMMEDIATE FOSTER HOMES NEEDED FOR DISPLACED SENIOR DOGS

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ORGANIZATION: CLASSIC CANINES INC

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We are a Senior Dog Advocacy, a non-profit, that helps lift senior dogs out of Austin local shelters and into foster, adoptive and rescue homes.

We are in URGENT need of COMPASSIONATE people to open their homes for displaced senior dogs waiting to leave kennels behind at Austin Animal Center so we can free shelter space so the next at risk animals in the community have space to come into safety.

It's so important animals keep moving through this process.
The shelter is overcrowded and hundreds of animals are waiting for help outside of the safety of the shelter.

  • We have both small dogs and large dogs needing homes
  • Each dog has a unique hardship story that started before they arrived to the shelter, some lost their owners to death or lost homes in evictions, or were abandoned or lost
  • Some need medical help, others are healthy, fosters only provide love, housing, food, and transportation to their medical appointments, everything else is provided
  • Some can be with other pets, some need to be loved fully as an only pet
  • Some are active seniors and some are at the other end of their life span or could even be a hospice case
  • Each one needs the opportunity to be lifted out to a home, be loved and cared for until adopted or for a small number of special cases, fostered through their end of life care
  • Fosters do not need to live in Austin but will ideally reside within Travis or neighboring counties where medical appointment travel is easy
Submit your foster application at austinanimalcenter.org
Then reach out to us to help pick the one that interests you and aligns with your home environment.

Our full list of senior dogs waiting in the area for temporary and permanent homes is found at bit.ly/ClassicCaninesATX

Can't foster or adopt but would like to donate? See linktr.ee/ClassicCaninesATX

Also, CARE and SHARE our posts on FB and IG at ClassicCaninesATX


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About CLASSIC CANINES INC

Location:

PO BOX 142762, AUSTIN, TX 78714, US

Mission Statement

We are a 501 c3 organization of shelter volunteers advocating, educating and promoting opportunities for senior dog adoption, foster and rescue. We also work with community cases referred by shelters to avert surrenders where possible. There are no paid positions. All funds raised are used directly for the care needs of senior shelter and foster dogs.

Description

We work with Austin area shelters where hundreds of senior dogs arrive each year as unclaimed strays and unfortunate owner surrenders. This can be very traumatic to a senior dog. Strays often arrive in rough shape, both medically and spiritually. Owner surrenders are often traumatized to be in a shelter after losing a home of many years. As a result, volunteer help must be multi-faceted.
Everyone can have a hand in helping a senior dog get home for good.

Opportunities abound to volunteer, foster, adopt, donate and share the good word!

Many volunteer opportunities available!
Board position opportunity open!

Make a difference in a life today.

CAUSE AREAS

Advocacy & Human Rights
Animals
Community
Advocacy & Human Rights, Animals, Community

WHEN

We'll work with your schedule.

WHERE

Austin Animal Center7201 Levander LoopAustinAustin, TX 78702

(30.252785,-97.69042)
 

SKILLS

  • Animal Care / Handling

GOOD FOR

  • People 55+

REQUIREMENTS

  • Must be at least 18
  • Fosters will earn volunteer hours through the shelters they foster for.

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