Knots Landing star now helping animals

Teri Austin, one-time star of Knots Landing and Maniac Mansion, has dedicated herself to a higher calling: helping animals in L.A.

Teri's in charge of the state's most successful mobile spay-neuter program, which is run by The Amanda Foundation. The program gives free spay-neuter services to pets whose owners can't afford them.

Teri also saves animals from certain death, taking them from our local shelters to be adopted from The Amanda Foundation's No Kill Facility in Beverly Hills. One dog she saved is now roommates with newly unemployed Mischa Barton. (I hope now that she's not among the OC cast that she can still afford dog food!)

"It's not work when you love it, you know, and I do," Teri says.

You can read more about Teri and her work on 13abc.com.