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