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AUSTIN, Texas – Thirteen dogs were recovered from a home in the Sandy Creek community last month after their owner was killed in a crash.<\/p>\n
Now they are in need of homes.<\/p>\n
What they’re saying:<\/p>\n
The dogs’ owner was killed in a crash on Nameless Road in the Leander area on Oct. 17.<\/p>\n
The dogs were taken in by Payton Coker, who posted about her rescue effort on a social media page for neighborhoods in Northwest Austin and Cedar Park.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know if they know that their owner is gone,” said Coker.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“So my first instinct was, okay, so there’s 13 dogs who don’t have anywhere to go at the moment. What can I do? Can I reach out to Nextdoor? Can I reach out to Facebook? I understand that, you know, 13 dogs is a lot, but I’m an animal lover. There’s a bunch of animal lovers out there too, and you know they just really need a good home and a loving home,” she added.<\/p>\n
The dogs are currently staying on a ranch owned by Payton\u2019s mother close to their original home. They’re mostly mixed breeds and range in size.<\/p>\n
“There’s five-month-old puppies up to, you know, senior dogs. So these dogs are the sweetest dogs that I have ever met. They’re so friendly, they’re so sweet. They just like to come up to you and rub on you,” said Coker.<\/p>\n
In response to her social media post, some food has been dropped off and a GoFundMe page<\/a> has been set up to help with expenses.<\/p>\n The main goal is finding homes.<\/p>\n “Maybe reach out to friends or family. Say, hey, there’s 13 dogs who are in need of a loving home. Call your local animal shelter. Maybe you could reach out to me directly. Even neighbors, friends, family, cousins, your best friend’s cousins. I mean, really, anything helps,” said Coker.<\/p>\n An effort is being made to keep the dogs together. That\u2019s why Payton said she has held off contacting local shelters.\u00a0<\/p>\n She is willing to adopt the dogs individually but is also looking for people who are willing to do foster care.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this report comes from reporting\/interviews by FOX 7 Austin’s chief political reporter Rudy Koski.<\/p>\n Pets and Animals<\/a>Northwest Austin<\/a>Cedar Park<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas – Thirteen dogs were recovered from a home in the Sandy Creek community last month after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,2536,223,7485,5163,394,216,393,2538],"class_list":{"0":"post-37312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-cedar-park","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-northwest-austin","14":"tag-pets-animals","15":"tag-travis-county","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-williamson-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}