14/12/2023
No Kill San Antonio was the very first group to break the story about the private consultation by Kristen Hassen, paid for by Petco Love
The goal of the consultation was to get ACS’s live release rate back to 90%
ACS could not stop killing dogs, not even for a single day, and this frustrated the Austin Animal Care behaviorists that were tasked with teaching the ACS staff how to co-house dogs in order to save more lives
The consultation ended and ACS kept it a secret, they even went as far as blocking advocate’s original Public Information Request but the city attorney determined that ACS did not hold legal grounds to withhold all of the documents and therefore the documents were released with some redactions
In those documents were many red flags. You can find out more by following NKSA and by reading the following posts:
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/BTqucskFYpib7dkN/?mibextid=WC7FNe
https://www.facebook.com/share/9n778MDGwkDSExVY/?mibextid=WC7FNe
https://sanantonioreport.org/san-antonio-animal-care-services-shelter-consultant/
Even before a deadly dog mauling threw Animal Care Services into turmoil, a national rescue partner sought to flag operational issues at the shelter.
