We wanted to know more about the nonstop flow of dogs and cats into city shelters, so we sat down with an Animal Care Services live release manager.
The City of San Antonio's Animal Care Services department works with outside organizations and community members to place animals in homes or foster care before resorting to euthanasia.There’s a team of people at Animal Care Services whose job it is, every day, to determine which dogs and cats have been in the shelter the longest. .
But we wanted to know more about the people who make those life-and-death decisions, so we sat down with Jessica Travis, a live release manager for Animal Care Services, to talk about the process these public servants go through every day but Sundays, and what they wish the community knew about the job most of us would not want.
If an animal comes into the shelter with some form of identification, such as a microchip, we give it a five-day “due-out.” We always look at whether there are any potential owners that we could track down before we add an animal to the capacity euthanasia list. Every morning, we have to figure out how much space we will need for the next day. We put out a list of the animals that are at the end of their due-out date, and thus scheduled to be euthanized that afternoon.
About 90% of the animals that we bring in to Animal Care Services are owned by someone. Every day, we walk through the kennels with people who are looking for their lost pet. About 30% of the animals we take in go back to their owners. Sometimes the reward is that two hours later we get placement for that animal or it is adopted. I’m glad you brought that up because we sometimes don’t give ourselves enough credit for the work we do.: I think one of the biggest frustrations for us is that our community is not connected to euthanasia.
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