'It's alarming': Data shows San Antonio is struggling to enforce pet sterilization orders
SAN ANTONIO - When loose dogs get picked up off the streets, Animal Care Services sends them back to their owner with a sterilization order. It's a mandate to get the animal spayed or neutered within 30 days.
Other council members voiced their concern too, calling the situation frustrating, alarming, and shocking. "We have not been consistent—because of other priorities—following up on those," Shannon told the committee. But Shannon says after the agency got more staff and resources last fiscal year, there was a new push to follow up on these orders.of orders were followed up on in Fiscal Year 2024, which resulted in more citations and more surgeries. 12% of all mandates resulted in animals being sterilized.
That means if the animals get loose again, they won't be able to reproduce and keep the cycle of strays going.
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