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Austin Humane Society, the largest nonprofit no-kill pet shelter and adoption center in town, recently suffered a tremendous setback: yesterday, the facility's A/C system abruptly shut down. A subsequent inspection found the system to be broken beyond repair. "Our air conditioning unit died," said AHS representative Lisa Starr to KXAN. "Went kaput." The center is installing a temporary mobile A/C unit today, but this solution won't work for the long term; even now, the animals...

As much as we love our Jack Russell Terrier and dogs in general, we're always a bit put off by the bigger, aggresive breeds at the dog park. "It's fine," we tell ourselves, "How dangerous could they possibly be? They have an owner!" Which is why it was with a certain degree of dread and a great measure of sadness that we read in today's Statesman about the woman in Milam County who was mauled to death by her neighbor's six pit-bull-Rottweilers:

This past weekend, exhausted from all the goings-on of Friday and Saturday nights, Austinist temporarily fled Austin to seek refuge in the Great Outdoors. We headed out west along HWY 290 to Pedernales Falls State Park, where we hoped to go on the 4-Mile Loop hike. Upon arrival at the Park's Headquarters, we were dismayed to learn that the river was too dangerous to traverse, what with all the recent rain we've had. As a decent alternative, we opted to try out the 8-mile Wolf Mountain Trail.