Further to .. (US – San Antonio ACS/TX) – Call for Action

Sunday, May 11th. The week is over.

This has to stop!

Please write to/call the above contacts. They full well know what they are doing, and the social media backlash directed at them has been blocked (by them) on FB.

https://www.thefire.org/news/victory-san-antonio-agrees-stop-hiding-comments-government-run-animal-shelters-facebook-page

VICTORY: San Antonio agrees to stop hiding comments on government-run animal shelter’s Facebook page

From a report done after a site visit in 2022 – there were numerous issues even then:

Dog euthanasia area

Pre-euthanasia holding kennels.

The incinerator is situated next to a series of euthanasia holding kennels. Though I did not get to observe the entire euthanasia process, what I observed and learned from numerous staff members is that the dogs are driven in a Kubota or walked on a catch pole to the euthanasia holding kennels and once all are gathered for euthanasia, they are walked through the door into the euthanasia area
where they are euthanised and then disposed of in the incinerator. I heard from multiple staff members that the dogs express anxiety and fear behaviours once in the pre-euthanasia kennels due to the smell of death from the euthanasia room that is just a few feet from the kennels.


Euthanasia room and process.

The euthanasia room itself was clean, though it did smell like dead bodies, likely from the cooler where some bodies are stored. The dogs are lifted onto a metal table and euthanized. When I asked a euthanasia supervisor why they are lifted up onto a table rather than the staff getting on the floor with them, he stated it’s hard for the staff to bend over that much so it’s easier on their bodies to euthanise them on the table. The table was steel with nothing on top of it.

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  1. We have to fight – Animals suffer round the world. There is extremly brutality. Human beings are not alowed to harm animals – but they do it. So – go on – fight for animals who are suffering. Everyone can do something to improve the bad situation

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