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Harris County Animal Shelter at capacity means $10 adoptions for Houstonians

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Puppies and kittens need your help.

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More than 200 animals were taken into the already overcrowded Harris County Animal Shelter in less than 48 hours.

Summer is traditionally the shelter's busiest intake season and thus, it needs the support of the community to be able to save these animals' lives.

"We are out of space," says Dr. Michael White, director of the Harris County Animal Shelter. "Many of our kennels already have up to six dogs in them, and we have several nursing cats with kittens and dogs with puppies that are in urgent need of a temporary foster home."

Harris County Animal Shelter is reducing adoption fees to $10 for all animals from May 22 to May 24 to help the animals find their forever home. Adoption fee includes spay or neuter procedure, all age-appropriate vaccines, a microchip, and a one-year pet license.

All the animals can be viewed here and can be adopted at Harris County Animal Shelter on weekdays from 1-5:30 pm or weekends from 11 am to 3:30 pm.

Adoptions are first come, first serve and are required to take place in person at the shelter. Harris County Animal Shelter is located at 612 Canino Rd.

If you can't adopt, they are also looking for fosters to help relieve the stress on the shelter. It could save that animal's life. The shelter will provide supplies if needed to Harris County residents willing to foster animals.

Harris County residents interested in temporarily fostering a shelter animal for two-three weeks are encouraged to email foster@phs.hctx.net.

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Thanks, Queen Bey

Pop icon Beyoncé donates $100,000 to University of Houston Law School

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Pop megastar Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has donated $100,000 to the University of Houston Law Center Criminal Justice Clinic through her BeyGOOD Foundation. The gift will allow the clinic to hire fill-time faculty to head it, benefiting the students who study there.

“I am delighted that the BeyGOOD Foundation has made this very generous gift to the UH Law Center,” said Leonard Baynes, dean of the UH Law Center. “Not only will this funding help establish a full-time criminal justice clinic that provides pro bono legal services in our community, but it will also supercharge our already excellent criminal law and justice programming.”

The clinic is one of nine at UHLC. It helps students learn to navigate the criminal justice system, especially on behalf of clients that are underserved by skilled attorneys. People of color are affected disproportionately by a lack of good, ethical representation.

Beyoncé, the most decorated artist in Grammy history and easily the biggest musical star native to Houston, has a long history of advocating for criminal justice reform. She was a staunch supporter of the police reform following the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, asking law enforcement to “stop killing us” in a web post. In 2020, she penned an open letter to the Kentucky attorney general asking for justice in the death of Breonna Taylor.

Through her BeyGOOD Foundation, established in 2013, Beyoncé has focused mostly on expanding the prospects of Black-owned business and offering education opportunities to students. Forwarding the cause of legal representation in Texas while also helping out marginalized communities compliments her other philanthropic work.

“At UH Law, we envision a legal profession where ‘everyone has the opportunity to prosper,’ as BeyGOOD envisions, and we will achieve this vision by providing access to strong and effective legal representation in criminal proceedings,” Baynes said. “And together, through this gift, the BeyGOOD Foundation and UHLC will shepherd the next generation of criminal justice attorneys in the city of Houston, the state of Texas and the nation.”