Animal advocates assert that the city has allowed its stray-animal problem to fester for too long.
ACS Director Shannon Sims went in front of City Council Aug. 17 to justify the department's request for a 26% funding increase.
"The laws that we do have about dangerous dogs need to be enforced," Acosta angrily told council during an early August session."Why aren't they being enforced?" Worse, Sims told council that ACS only has the current capacity to respond to 44% of the calls it receives, with an average response time of an astonishing 30 hours.
The final straw for Acosta came when neither ACS nor SAPD would respond to multiple calls she made this year about a neighbor she said has a criminal record for animal abuse yet is keeping more than the city-allowed number of five dogs in his house. So far, Acosta said she's spent $20,000 of her own money on work ACS is supposed to be doing. She isn't the only San Antonio resident taking up the task of controlling San Antonio's stray animal population, however.San Antonio animal lover Lea Laport also couldn't help but notice the Alamo City's stray problem.
The ACS budget proposal Sims presented to council does address many of the concerns pointed out by Acosta, Laport, McKee-Rodriguez, and Nirenberg.
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