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Important Update on Animal Intake

Houston Pets Alive/Austin Pets Alive’s purpose during Hurricane Harvey was to assist in pets found in the flood waters or evacuated from shelters damaged in the storm. Beginning immediately, our temporary shelter on Stella Link Road will no longer be accepting animals from the public. If people need to surrender a pet or find one roaming, we recommend that they take them to their local shelter as they usually would. For cats, we do not recommend that you take them to any shelter but instead trap/neuter/release as cats are more than capable of living outdoors safely.


Houston Pets Alive! and Austin Pets Alive! will only be taking animals from shelters that are out of space and are looking at euthanizing. We will only be taking animals that are immediately at risk or on the euthanasia list from those shelters. We hope that by doing that in the very near term, the shelters will be able to continue focusing on stray pets who might be reunited with their owner.