One local Slaton woman has saved nearly 100 lives over the past seven months.

Becky Bixler has saved about 100 dogs from being euthanized at the Slaton Pound.

And it all started just seven months ago.

Bixler was semi-retired and looking for something to do with her new found spare time.

That's when she found the Slaton Dog Pound.

"And then I started taking them home and I would bathe them and pull out fleas and ticks because they're usually in bad shape when they come, when they're caught," she says.

At her own expense, Aunt Becky, as she calls herself, would clean up the dogs and take them to the United Supermarket every Wednesday and Saturday, in hopes of finding them a home.

But lately, the cost of keeping up with the ever increasing number of dogs being caught has forced Bixler to go back to work. 

"Over $3000," (she's spent) Bixler says.

So what began as saving 5, 6 even 10 dogs a week, has turned to at least one.

And if it's only one, it's one less that would have been euthanized, had not been for Bixler.