Sep 26, 2022
Austin was a really completely different metropolis for susceptible companion animals simply 14 years in the past. A few of the animals most in danger had been puppies with parvovirus. Every day these tiny lives had been needlessly misplaced as a result of shelters did not have packages set as much as deal with parvo.
Veterinarians learn to deal with parvo in class, so we questioned why animal shelters couldn’t or wouldn’t. If these puppies may usually be saved, why wasn’t remedy the norm? To
save these pets and improve lifesaving in Austin, we needed to begin
someplace — and preserving parvo puppies from being euthanized appeared like a
good place to start out.
The Parvo Pet ICU, as we all know it at the moment, was born in a toilet in my home round Thanksgiving 2008. At its peak I may spend as much as eight hours a day cleansing and treating wherever from a pair to 25 sick puppies at a time. Fortunately,
my husband was very understanding and keen to place up with the odor
of sick puppies in our lavatory. Though it wasn’t supreme having the
robust and unforgettable odor of parvo in our residence, it was the one approach
to guard these pets in want and provides them the important care they
deserved.
We regularly share the story of the ICU’s humble beginnings as a result of it
reminds us how far we’ve come. Though I used to be usually the one one
cleansing up after that first batch of puppies, APA!’s capability to take care of animals in want continues to develop due to the assistance of pals such as you.
Due to our neighborhood’s willpower to make Austin No Kill, we had been in a position, eleven years in the past, to commerce the toilet tile and pop-up crates for linoleum and steel kennels in a location with easy accessibility to our clinic and round the clock workers. The necessity for assist didn’t finish once we moved to the Parvo Pet ICU at TLAC.
At this time, parvo puppies are nonetheless vulnerable to useless euthanasia in shelters throughout Texas that haven’t but adopted No Kill. As we have fun the eleventh anniversary of No Kill in Austin and its continued impression on pets at excessive threat of euthanasia we all know there may be nonetheless a lot work to do to avoid wasting much more lives and assist different shelters do the identical. Will you be part of us at the moment?
With gratitude,
Ellen
