What’s going on with the new animal shelter in Austin?
In November 2006, Austin’s voters approved a bond package that provides $12 million for a new animal shelter. But in order for an animal shelter to attract visitors (and, in turn, adopters), the shelter must be located in a high-traffic, high-density, highly accessible location. That’s why FixAustin.Org, along with several other citizen groups in town (like the Central Texas Animal Alliance, and AustinAction.Org) are working hard to convince the City to build the new shelter at the site of the current shelter—on Town Lake in the heart of downtown. Regrettably, the same shelter management responsible for killing 70,000 pets since 2000 plans to close the downtown facility and move the shelter’s operations (along with our homeless pets) out-of-sight and out-of-mind—to an industrial area off of Airport Road just south of East 7th Street.
