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They Do It All in Alexandria

- by Duane Loper

Volunteers ferry pets from cars to the AWLA shelter at a drive-in vaccine clinic.

Volunteers ferry animals from vehicles to the AWLA shelter at a generate-in vaccine clinic.

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How does the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria (AWLA) manage to display dozens of canines and cats to opportunity adopters, produce exclusive treats for the animals, reply the mobile phone, continue to keep up with mountains of laundry and so lots of other duties every single week?

The solution: Volunteers! A latest calculation decided that the shelter’s volunteers provide so a great deal of their time that they contribute the equivalent of up to 12 team customers each individual 12 months.

With much more than 100 volunteers still functioning from household given that the pandemic as very well as people donating their time in human being at the shelter, the volunteer corps is a lot more important than at any time, explained AWLA Manager of Volunteers and Local community Situations Echo Keif. People

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Alexandria Animal Shelter Transports 50 Cats from Texas

- by Duane Loper

The Animal Welfare League of Alexandria (AWLA) introduced in 50 cats Saturday, March 13 from 8 animal shelters in Texas nevertheless recovering from the devastating February snowstorms and subsequent power outages.

Quite a few of these Texas services are now suffering from a surge of surrendered pets, and by transporting animals who were being previously in these shelters to Virginia, these organizations can superior handle the continued have to have for care and guide even additional homeless animals.

“We obtained a request from the Human Animal Support Providers (HASS) countrywide community inquiring if shelters have been equipped to consider in homeless animals, to make place for Texas shelters to treatment for the inflow of animals they were being observing,” said AWLA Executive Director Stella Hanly. “We realized the strategies had been even now coming alongside one another, but we also understood we experienced to enable.”

The most important hurdle was

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