Austin to Brownwood: All animal rescues are local !

Austin animal workers rescue 30 dogs
11:39 PM CDT on Saturday, May 13, 2006
By SHELTON GREEN / KVUE News
The Humane society said the more than 30 dogs they rescued Friday will be ready for adoption in two days.
Animal groups returned to Austin Friday afternoon after rescuing about 30 daschunds.

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Workers say the dogs were kept in squalid conditions.
The Austin Humane Society and All Texas Daschund Rescue say the animals were being bred and housed in a cramped and dirty home in a town about three hours north of Austin.
The Comanche County Animal Rescue Society in Brownwood, Texas sent out an e-mail alert. Animal workers claim the woman there was raising more than 100 dogs -- most of them daschsunds, a few boxers and a few chihuahas.
The woman was selling the dogs for profit outside of a Brownwood donut shop. That is not against the law in Comanche County.
The problems, say rescuers, is the fact that the animals were not registered and were found in a horrible environment.
"These conditions are deplorable and there are physically disabled animals that need treatment," said Barbara Lewis, All Texas Daschund Rescue, in a release. "When I went into this house it was unbelievable."
Most of the dogs in the home were dacshunds.
The dogs will undergo medical treatment in Austin and hopefully find new homes.
The Austin Humane Society has a no kill policy, and they say that's one reason they helped rescue the animals, because they believe that they will all eventually be adopted.
They still need a couple of days before they're ready or adoption.
For more information, go to www.austinhumanesociety.org or call 512-837-7985.
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