AUSTIN, Texas — A Central Texas nonprofit dedicated to rescuing abused and disabled animals is facing financial hardship following devastating floods that swept through the region in July.

Safe in Austin, located in Leander, provides sanctuary to approximately 200 animals, many of which live with disabilities such as blindness, deafness, missing limbs or neurological conditions. The nonprofit, launched in 2017, rescues animals so those animals can help heal children.

“I don't ever have someone come to see me that leaves with a dry eye, or that says that they have not been actually changed by what they've witnessed here,” said Executive Director Jamie Wallace. “I get to see something that most people don't get to see in a lifetime, happen all the time, all because of these really cool ani

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