TRAPRS - Trapping, Rescue, and Pet Recovery Service, Austin, TX (2025)

11/08/2025

🚨Sound the alarms! SOS — we’re drowning in medical bills and the requests to save the dogs on the streets is increasing weekly. 😩 We need your help to be able to keep saving lives.🙏

Over the last few months we have been slammed with major medical situation after situation. We’ve barely had time to breathe, let alone catch you up with all of these cases. 😭

Pictured above are just a few handfuls of recent medical needs that have surpassed $30,000 in vet bills alone.

❤️‍🩹 Zuko — dumped and being attacked by dogs.

❤️‍🩹 Brooke — abandoned and running terrified with a broken foot.

❤️‍🩹 Mav — major complication after neuter requiring another surgery.

❤️‍🩹 June — multiple ER appts, back to back surgeries - hydrometra & then breaking records with a rare case of endometriosis and a tangerine-sized mass removed.

❤️‍🩹 Winston — partly blind senior dumped in the middle of the road. Emaciated, anemic, eye infections and HW+

❤️‍🩹 Cinnamon — dumped and left for a year on the streets. Emergency surgery for pyometra & HW+

❤️‍🩹 Mama Penelope & party of 8 — vetting for all

❤️‍🩹 Manny — sudden internal bleeding & emergency surgery for cancer mass on spleen and liver

❤️‍🩹 Grace — all set for her final health check in foster and bam! We found cancer & she needed a surgery to remove the mass.

❤️‍🩹 Gia — left without her puppies on the streets, HW+

You may or may not have heard the news that the city of Austin has removed the portion of their budget allocated to emergency services through a local ER clinic.

This means that if you, as a community member find a dog who’s injured in the middle of the night, you can no longer take it to the city partner ER. For the last several years historically they have turned away many medical emergencies anyway, but now that option is gone completely. What now? If you want to save that dog, it’s out of your pocket and calls to us are increasing at an astronomical rate.

To keep going, we desperately need help.

🙏How you can help?
* Venmo
* PayPal.me/theTRAPRS
* Zelle [email protected]
* Mail: PO Box 90531 Austin, TX 78709
* Call our vet directly Southwest Vet 512-696-3980
• https://givebutter.com/2fyBEa

11/02/2025

14 days missing and over 20 miles traveled.

There’s a saying in rescue:
“At some point, the will to survive outweighs the fear.”

This means there will come a time when a dog (or other animals, at times), although terrified, will seek out human help or civilization because they know they need it.

Today was that day for Crux.

After covering a distance of 20 miles from the point of loss, a cold, super underweight, and cut-up Crux showed up on the back porch of a stranger.

The kind person, sensing his fear, made a trail of treats into her utility room, where Crux immediately cowered into a corner.

A neighbor had seen a flyer posted at a nearby garden center.

They called, and Crux’s foster mom went over and, after some coaxing, was able to scoop the scared baby up.

Day 14, and Crux is finally HOME SAFE! 😭💙

We’ll be working closely with his family to ensure this is his last great adventure.

Welcome home, Crux!

You’re one heck of a survivor. 💪

11/01/2025

Happy Howl-o-ween! 🎃

Swipe through many familiar faces — from adoptables, pups who have landed their forevers and even one of our lost dogs found!

If a pup says “adoptable”, they are available! All of these others are spoken for — either adopted or in their foster-to-adopt homes. 💙

Email our team for more info: [email protected]

Thanks so much to everyone for sending in these adorable pics. 📸💙

#ʜᴀʟʟᴏᴡᴇᴇɴ2025

10/26/2025

🚨LOST DOG - AUSTIN, TX🚨 NW Austin 78759
Barrington Oaks | Anderson Mill | Jollyville

Help us find Crux! He’s a scaredy foster dog who escaped a few days ago and the recent storms have made him bolt over 3 miles from where he went missing. 😩

Crux was originally lost at 183 & Duvall. There is always a chance that he loops back so we need all eyes on!

He’s wearing the BLACK collar in the photo.

We need everyone in this area to be hyper-vigilant and alert us if you spot him!👀

It is VITAL that you do NOT CHASE him or try and corner him. Please help us get the word out right away!

🏡Let’s get him home safe!🙏

If you spot him:
🚫 Do NOT call for
🚫 Do NOT chase
🚫Do NOT pursue in any manner

✅ Call (or text!) the hotline immediately with sighting details!

☎️ 844-287-2777

10/26/2025

Lend a paw anyone?🐾🥹

Our foster home needs are constant, but these are some of our current dogs that need placement! ‼️

While most of our fosters commit to fostering through adoption, occasionally there are emergencies, medical events, people moving, etc. which prohibit a foster from being able to foster until their pup is adopted.

Through no fault of their own these babes are looking for their next foster home or foster-to-adopt! 🏡

All of these dogs are currently in our program, so unlike when we initially pull them off the streets, we can share quite a bit of info about each one. (Aside from Storm and Sprite who are new this week in temp care, but we’re learning about them fast, too!)

📩 If any of these dogs catch your attention and you would like to learn more, please DM us or shoot us an e-mail: [email protected]

🤔 Looking for a different match for your household? Or want to be our list for short term and vacation needs? Please still send us a message!

10/11/2025

🎉UPDATE: 10/11/25 HOME SAFE👏

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🚨LOST DOG - AUSTIN, TX🚨 SE Austin 78744
Vista Point | McKinney Falls | Easton Park

Help us find Hazel! We need your help with one of our own. 😭Hazel is a TRAPRS foster dog and a tripod.

She’s been through so much – amputation surgery, heartworm treatment, etc. and was roaming for months before we rescued her.

She went missing from a temp foster while her foster mom is out of state. She doesn’t know the neighborhood and is terrified. 😭

We need everyone in this area to be hyper-vigilant and alert us if you spot her!👀

It is VITAL that you do NOT CHASE her or try and corner her. Please help us get the word out right away!

🏡Let’s get her home safe!🙏

If you spot her:
🚫 Do NOT call for
🚫 Do NOT chase
🚫Do NOT pursue in any manner

✅ Call (or text!) the hotline immediately with sighting details!

☎️ 844-287-2777

09/19/2025

How could you ever resist this face?🥹

📍FOSTER NEEDED — Austin, TX

Sweet Winston was found wandering in and out of traffic, clearly an older guy and partly blind he’s half hairless and beyond underweight.

The city shelter responded with the usual “Just put back where you found him.” 😑

This wasn’t a dog who was going to survive on the streets, let alone thrive in a shelter setting.

Over the last couple weeks in short term foster & through his vetting, we have learned a lot about him:

• he is a big snuggle bug
• although he’s partly blind he enjoys a walk and some good yard sniffs!
• he’s likely younger than he looks, with great teeth, so probably 8 to 10!
• he can be dog social/selective or be a solo pup
• he does have some chronic eye issues and needs regular eyedrop medication right now
• aside from his skin not looking the best, with his medicine and good food and nutrients his fur is likely to grow back
• he is easy-going and adaptable

🏡If you can open your home to him, please send us a message or email us: [email protected]

Can’t foster at this time? You can still help Winston!

💙Donate via Venmo
💙 PayPal.me/theTRAPRS
💙 Shop our wishlists for fosters
💙 SHARE this post!

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08/30/2025

Help us give this sweet girl a new life!

Many of all know and love Baloo. (Photo 1)
He was dumped in Westlake, limping and peeing blood.

We all assumed he was hit by a car until we took him to the vet. The best guest was blunt force trauma- most likely someone intentionally kicking him. He fought his wild UTI and kidney infection for weeks and he has recovered beautifully in foster.

But now... in the exact same area, a female dog has appeared who looks to be his sister, she is also limping and terrified. And seeking help. (All other photos are of her)

We need a foster home to say YES so we can get her into our vet quickly.

She's been allowing two residents of a senior living facility to befriend her. But runs from everyone else. They can't foster her, so we need a family who can.

It was about to storm this afternoon, so she’s VERY temporarily staying in their apt but we need a foster home right away.

You know the drill:
✅ medical
✅ supplies
✅ support
All covered by us.

You:
💪Jump in with both feet, keep separate initially from resident pets + kiddos, and in it for the long haul with us.

🏡Apply to foster: bit.ly/fosterforTRAPRS
�Can’t foster, but still want to help?
❤️‍🩹Support her care!
Donate here: https://givebutter.com/gSoXcJ
Venmo:
PayPal.me/theTRAPRS

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08/29/2025

🥹 Manny made it. ❤️‍🩹
But we still need your help!🙏

Manny had his emergency surgery and it was successful. They were able to remove the large mass that was his left liver lobe and multiple other nodules on various lobes of the liver, all which were bleeding. The surgeon also removed his spleen. There is a lump on his hip that has to be looked at, but it is hopefully benign and not a priority for right now in case it’s something worse and would cause more internal bleeding if poked. 🫠

Manny spent two more days in hospital at risk of still internal bleeding and was anemic to the point where he was possibly need a blood transfusion at any moment.

The hospital ran out of blood during this and it was a bit scary there for a minute.

(Blood supply shortages in vet med aren’t uncommon, and this isn’t the first time our team has had that scare.)

He has pulled through it all and will be able to get discharged and headed home to continue his healing in his loving foster home.

His total bill increased and we’re only 1/3 of the way to our goal.

Please consider helping us with Manny’s care!
https://givebutter.com/fPgvpm

Venmo:
PayPal.me/theTRAPRS

08/26/2025

😭 We don’t know how we’re going to pull this off, but we have to try.

Sweet Manny is heading into emergency surgery NOW. His bill is at $8,000 and this comes at a time where we’ve got medical bills coming out of our ears, new intakes, and so many dogs in heartworm treatment.

Manny has been through so much since we rescued him — he had mast cell tumor, an amputation, and then heartworm treatment. He’s been doing amazing until suddenly he crashed this weekend. He became lethargic with heavy breathing and coughing. We rushed him into the regular vet and x-rays showed a mass on his liver.

Due to the high potential for internal bleeding, he was immediately hospitalized at AVES. He was anemic and in limbo for a blood transfusion overnight. Thankfully we made it through the night and he had the ultrasound this morning which identified the size and location of the tumor. However it was unclear if it had metastasized to his gallbladder or if his spleen was also affected.

The next step this afternoon was an urgent CT scan to determine if this was going to be operable or what decisions we had to make.

We just got the glass-half-full news that it is operable🙏😭, and it had not moved to the gallbladder. There is a lesion on the spleen so we will remove that at the same time. This is just considered an accessory organ in dogs and he will live fine without it.

The liver surgery should remove a mass in full and with the best guess of the type of cancer, it has a high rate of survival and low rate of recurrence.

Manny does have a mild to moderate risk of bleeding out during the surgery or during recovery. But the doctor is confident in moving forward with the surgery.

We know y’all have helped us rally before when we have these sudden and scary situations with dogs already in our foster program that we are not anticipating. 😭💪

Can you help us save Manny once again?
💙Venmo
💙PayPal.me/theTRAPRS
(note: these two donation methods are the fastest and get the funds to us immediately so we can get the money to the vet)
💙Fundraiser page: https://givebutter.com/fPgvpm

other donation methods available at the link in our bio!

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