About

Adette owned a successful pet sitting service in the Austin area for 9 years.  She has hundreds of very satisfied clients as well as many cat and dog friends whom she loved and cared for with all her heart. Through her pet sitting travels she found and rescued several dogs. She is now the chair for the Public Awareness group for Town Lake Animal Shelter to raise awareness to help Austin become a No Kill City. She can also regularly be seen Sunday mornings on KXAN with a pet of the week from the shelter. Adette has a bachelors degree in Biology from the University of New Mexico and is co-founder of I Once Was Lost Animal Advocacy. Over the past year, Adette and her co-founder have rescued, spayed/neutered, medically and emotionally treated and found loving homes for over 30 dogs.

“It came to me that every time I lose a dog they take a piece of my heart with them. And every new dog who comes into my life, gifts me with a piece of their heart. If I live long enough, all the components of my heart will be dog, and I will become as generous and loving as they are.”~Unknown                                                                                                                                                                 We are proud to offer a foster program at Chuckling Hound. We always reserve one room for a rescue pet to spend time until they find their forever home.  We offer this at no expense to any legitimate rescue organization in and around the Austin area. We will love these pets as our own. We commit to helping them grow and heal in all ways so they may find their forever families.  To see our current fosters and other furry loves looking for their forever homes click here 

“I love the ambiguity of calling these pups “rescue” dogs. Who really gets rescued–the dog who is adopted or the person who adopts the dog? I guess it’s a matter of perspective–or grammar. If the emphasis were on the dog being rescued, the term would be ‘rescued dog’” Raffy Garza-Vizcaino