Five years ago, Tena Lundquist Faust and her sister Tama Lundquist saw an opportunity to bring dogs out of the shelter system and place them into a different type of adoption environment in a high-end shopping center, hoping to increase the animals' chances for adoption. "People say they want to adopt a poodle or a German shepherd," said Mary Tipton, the group's intake coordinator. Tipton said that her group recently was contacted by BARC, the city of Houston's animal shelter and adoption facility, about a bulldog that had been kept at the facility for the maximum time without being adopted. Two weeks after her first eye surgery, because of her breeding and all those wrinkles in her face, she needed another surgery to cut back all that extra skin around her eyes. K-9 Angels Rescue has been able to provide services through donations and volunteers. The space in Woodlake Square, which the group uses only Saturdays and Sundays, is donated by AmREIT, an equity real estate investment trust. Home visits by K-9 Angels representatives are part of the adoption process. On Sunday afternoons the dogs go home with volunteer foster parents, which saves boarding expenses.
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