Adopt

My name is Sicily!

Posted over 2 years ago | Updated 1 day ago

Adoption process
1

Visit the Facility and Find a Pet

2

Meet the Pet

3

Sign Adoption Contract

Adoption fee: $25

This helps Austin Pets Alive! with pet care costs.

My basic info

Breed
Labrador Retriever/Mixed Breed (Medium)
Color
Brown/Chocolate/White
Age
9 years 9 months old, Senior
Size
Med. 26-60 lbs (12-27 kg) (when grown)
Weight
66 lbs (current)
Sex
Female
Pet ID
100450

My details

Checkmark in teal circle Spayed / Neutered
Checkmark in teal circle Housetrained

My story

Here's what the humans have to say about me:

Meet Sicily — The Girl with the Permanent Wink!
Breed: Chocolate Lab Mix • Age: Mature Lady • Weight: 65 lbs
House-trained • Crate-trained • Prefers adult or with mature teens home

Sicily is a gentle, quirky senior girl who has been truly blooming in foster care. With patient guidance and weekly training sessions, she’s made impressive progress. She went from being unsure about leaving the house to confidently walking her neighborhood, exploring new sights, and even opening up to unfamiliar people much faster than before. She loves learning and proudly practices confidence-building skills like “place” on a small platform.

At home, Sicily is calm, affectionate, and loves finding cozy nooks—blankets, couches, corners—where she can settle in for a nap. She thrives with predictable routines and a peaceful environment, and once she trusts you, her sweet and lively personality shines through. Her foster mom describes her as loyal, expressive, and incredibly endearing.

Sicily prefers an adults or mature teenagers home where life moves at an easy pace. She could potentially live with a calm, respectful dog, but she would also be perfectly happy as your one-and-only companion.

If you enjoy slow neighborhood strolls, quiet evenings, and the joy of watching a dog gain confidence day by day, Sicily may be your perfect match.

Come meet the girl with the permanent wink and the steadily growing heart.
Shelter

Contact info

Pet ID
100450
Contact
Phone
Address
1156 West Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX 78703

Their adoption process

1.

Visit the Facility and Find a Pet

Take a look at our Available Dogs page or our Available Cats page, depending on which kind of pet you’re interested in! Make note of a few d

2.

Meet the Pet

Visit our shelter locations every day from 12-6 to meet our on-site animals or get matched with an adoptable pet. New pets everyday!

3.

Sign Adoption Contract

Our application is more like a conversation. Come meet us today!

Additional adoption info

We are open to the public to visit available animals at our adoption locations. Visit us daily for same-day adoption or meet our dogs and cats.

Click the 'adoption inquiry' button in an animal's profile or email adopt@austinpetsalive.org with the name you’re interested in for the next steps on setting up your meet & greet.

If you need help finding the right match email matchmaker@austinpetsalive.org for dogs and catmatchmaker@austinpetsalive.org for cats with a short description of what you’re looking for and what your home environment is like.

Go meet their pets

Open 7 days a week from 12 PM - 6 PM.
Please inquire through an animal profile or by emailing adopt@austinpetsalive.org if you are interested in meeting one of our available animals.

Town Lake Animal Center
1156 West Cesar Chavez
Austin, TX 78703

Tarrytown Cat Adoption Center
3106 Windsor Road
Austin, TX 78703

Tarrytown Dog Adoption Center
3118 Windsor Road
Austin, TX 78703

More about this shelter

Austin Pets Alive! (APA!) is a nonprofit animal shelter and rescue organization pioneering comprehensive, innovative programs designed to save the most at-risk homeless companion animals and educate others to do the same through its American Pets Alive! nationwide education and outreach division.

A leader in No Kill sheltering in America’s largest No Kill city, APA! helps more than 10,000 dogs and cats annually in Central Texas and beyond get a chance at the life they deserve.

To learn more about APA!, visit austinpetsalive.org.

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