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Please come and visit with us!  We have over 70 dogs at Huts for Mutts and it takes a team of wonderful, hard working folks to keep them all fed, watered, and presented for adoption.  

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Santa has his hands full at the 2009 Gatesville Tractor Supply Christmas photo event! 

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Linda, our office manager (left) picks up a donation from a Huts for Mutts supporter.  Linda does it all:  answers phone calls, picks up donated food and supplies, verifies grant applicants, schedules vet appointments, runs errands, schedules and works adoption events!  Linda is Huts for Mutts

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     Our first mobile neuter project was to participate in a SpayDay nickel neuter for tom cats offered in Dallas back in 2005.  The two hour drive on a cold February day taught us that no good deed goes unpunished.  Boy did it stink in that vehicle!  Too pungent to keep the windows rolled up and too cold to roll them down!  But in the end 20+ male toms would no longer be adding to the pet overpopulation problem in Hamilton.

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Sammy is my personal rescue~

The Starfish Story
 
Walking along the beach after a storm
the couple noticed someone in the distance
bending down and throwing something into the ocean
again and again the person would walk along the water's edge
bending down and casting something into the water
Soon they could see the person was throwing stranded starfish
into the safety of their "home" the ocean
The couple asked if the effort really mattered
there were so many starfish washed up on the shore
The individual picked up a starfish and threw it into the ocean replying,
"IT MATTERS TO THIS ONE."
 
Never let the nay-sayers have the last word! 
Rescue matters!

Our Programs

FREE PET SPAY/NEUTER ASSISTANCE FOR LOW INCOME OWNERS (DOGS AND CATS)
 
To qualify a family must make $25,000 a year or less and a single person must make $16,000 or less a year
 
CONTACT HUTS FOR MUTTS!  254-386-5272
 
Choose from our list of participating veterinarians:
 
ABC Low Cost Clinic, Waco
Coryell Vet Clinic, Gatesville
Hamilton Vet Clinic, Hamilton
Mills County Vet Clinic, Goldthwaite
 
You will be asked to send verification of income.  You will be advised when you are approved and then asked to make your own appointment and take your pet in for spay/neuter.  YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE RABIES VACCINATION. 

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     Spotted walking up the dirt road in front of Esther's home, the Sulcata tortoise was herded into the yard and penned in a temporary enclosure to keep it safe.  An alert went out on the Huts for Mutts e-mail loop (and the local newspaper) and the appreciative owners reclaimed their missing family member.  Not native to Texas the tortoise resides in a large fenced yard (uh-oh, someone left the gate open(!) and enjoys a heated shelter in the winter~    

A Hut for Mutts volunteer spotted this cockatiel in a bank parking lot dehydrated and over-heated.  "Mickey" (who became Michalena when she laid an egg) has been the official HFM greeter ever since and moved from a bird cage to a huge 2-story ferret cage along with 3 recently relinquished cockatiels.

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Hootie was spotted entangled in a barbwire fence.  Seeing nothing but a pile of feathers hanging on a fence, our volunteer U-turned and drove back to verify the bird was dead...but when Hoot opened his eyes the race was on to free him!  Hamilton Sheriff's dept. sent a deputy who called the Texas Wildlife Dept.  Hootie suffered damage to his wing and had to be rehabed by The Phoenix Center, a federally recognized raptor rehab center in Glen Rose Texas.  LOWER:  Hootie being released on Elsie Mayfield's property where he was originally rescued.

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Mutt Art Rocks, click here for more information.

Our Location an Hours

Huts For Mutts
5420 South US Hwy 281
Hamilton, TX 76531
 
Tuesday through Friday 11:00am to 3:00pm
Call (254)386-5272 to let us know you plan on visiting
on a Saturday or Sunday...we'll be sure to be there!