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Animal control is taking a pounding Web Posted: 11/19/2004 12:00 AM CST

Lisa Sandberg
San Antonio Express-News After defending the gas chamber as the most humane method of animal euthanasia, the city health director said Thursday he might be willing to switch to lethal injections if strong community outrage persisted.

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"If the community does not believe in gas euthanasia, we're certainly willing to hear that prospective," Dr. Fernando Guerra, who oversees the animal pound, said Thursday in an interview.

In an earlier memo sent to the mayor and the City Council, however, the health director said this week's San Antonio Express-News series on the animal pound had failed to discuss the "humane advantages" of carbon monoxide gas.

"This process minimizes fright by each animal, restraint required and occupational risks to staff," the memo stated.

City officials have been trying to deal with rising public furor generated by the Express-News series, which revealed San Antonio kills more dogs and cats per capita than any other large city in the country and does so with a method — the gas chamber — other large cities have done away with.

The newspaper also reported that handling procedures haven't changed in the three years since the National Animal Control Association, a consulting group, issued a report criticizing them.

An Express-News reporter witnessed gassed dogs being dumped into a truck without anyone verifying they were dead, and hundreds of puppies and kittens under 4 months old being sent to the chamber, despite the fact their lungs may be too premature to properly absorb the gas.

The reporter regularly saw crates crowded with animals being wheeled into the chamber, creating the potential that some may not absorb enough gas to actually die.

The two-part series provoked hundreds of responses from readers, most of whom expressed outrage at the conditions described.

"I want to take a time of silence for the dogs that are barking no more and the cats that are meowing no more because they did get killed at our city pound," D'Ann Trethan said during the citizens to be heard section of Thursday's City Council meeting.

In his first public comments since the series ran, Mayor Ed Garza acknowledged the city agency suffered "significant problems."

"The system is broken," the mayor said Thursday, The agency "has been neglected for decades."

He said that the new $12 million Animal Control facility planned for 2007 would take San Antonio "out of the dark ages." But much more would be needed if San Antonio is to create a modern, forward thinking animal control facility.

"That's a ways off," he said. "But at least now it's a priority."

He and Interim City Manager Rolando Bono said they might support making Animal Care and Control a stand-alone agency, with the pound's top official reporting directly to the city manager, as opposed to remaining a division within a much larger health department.

"At some point it may be necessary to have more directional operational oversight. It's an option," Bono said.

Bono said he didn't expect any immediate management changes at the animal pound and wouldn't comment on the handling practices reported in the newspaper until he could discuss them with his staff.

(William Luther / Express-News)

Mayoral hopeful Jay Tope speaks in support of changing the rules to make San Antonio a 'no-kill' city for animals picked up by the pound. Supporters of Tope displayed San Antonio Express-News articles on the topic at Thursday's news conference at City Hall.

"There was enough (in the series) that caused me to want to have more information," he said.

Bono said he would support an audit of the pound's practices and procedures, possibly by the Animal Control Advisory Board, a panel that's appointed by city council members.

While the euthanasia rate around the nation has plummeted over the past two decades, it has nearly doubled here, reaching nearly 50,000 this year.

Nearly nine of 10 animals that enter the pound are trucked out to the landfill. Included in that statistic are all puppies and kittens under 4 months of age and virtually all owner-surrendered animals.

Dr. William Lammers, the pound's top official, has declined requests this week for an interview, referring calls to Dr. Guerra. While he and Dr. Guerra were on hand to answer questions at Thursday night's council meeting, neither was summoned to do so.

In response to community pressure, a town hall meeting has been called for Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the SBC Technology Center at St. Mary's University.

Some animal welfare groups are planning to protest outside the Animal Care and Control facility Saturday at 10 a.m.

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Sixty percent of all animals killed at the pound
display no health problems or signs of problematic
behavior, Gonzales said.

They die because they are too young or too old, too
mangy or too beaten down. They die because they are
the wrong color, size or breed. They die simply
because they are unremarkable.

Out of some 200 dogs he appraised one day recently,
Gonzales spared three. The rest received a death
sentence: a handwritten "NFA" - Not For Adoption -
on the back of a half-page sheet of paper.

Pitiless process

The grim processional to the chamber starts each
morning at 7:30 with a procedure called "the pull" -
a rounding up of the animals whose luck has run out.

Moving quickly from cage to cage, kennel to kennel,
the workers inspect each animal's paperwork.

Doomed dogs are walked or dragged from their cages
and loaded into cages in the center of each kennel.

Cats are loaded into crates, often with nooses
slipped around their necks, and carried to the dogs'
kennels, where they are crammed into cages with
other cats.

Pandemonium reigns during the 90 minutes it takes to
sort the animals.

Dogs bark incessantly. Terrified cats huddle in
piles or cling to the ceiling of the metal grating.

Young dogs go down with old ones. Fancy pedigrees go
down with mongrels. Whatever advantages a dog or cat
may have enjoyed before entering the pound vanish
inside the tractor cage.

That's how it happens most mornings, and that's how
it happened on the muggy morning that the husky took
its final breath.

After the carcasses of nine cats tumbled into a
truck, each one's nine lives spent, the gas chamber
opened for another load.

A kennel worker, grasping the sides of the husky's
crate, wheeled it across the room and pushed it into
the yawning gas chamber.

Then the worker, a big man in tall rubber boots,
slammed the clear acrylic door of the gas chamber
and flicked a switch on top.

There was silence, then a hissing noise. Carbon
monoxide gas filled the chamber.

At first the reddish-brown husky scratched at the
door and raised its head, swinging it from side to
side.

Then its howls became muffled cries.

After 20 or 30 seconds, the mutt next to the husky
fell. Then the husky collapsed, unconscious but not
yet dead.

There was time for the kennel attendant to pull from
another chamber the carcasses of four dogs then dump
them through a chute into the parked truck below.

By 10:07 a.m., 31 cats and 66 dogs - including the
husky and his mixed-breed companions in the rusty
crate in which they were delivered to their doom -
had died this way.

Three hours after the first gassing, the cacophony
of panicked barking dogs and screeching cats drew to
a close.

Men hosed down cages in the shade, awaiting the
trucks that would soon return with their morning
loads.

The new arrivals would be counted, sorted, tagged -
and led away.

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Death by the pound
Web Posted: 11/14/2004 12:00 AM CST

Lisa Sandberg
Express-News Staff Writer

©2004, San Antonio Express-News

Pawing at the rusty crate it shared with three
mutts, the big husky howled.

It must know, Rasiel Galvan mused.

             More coverage
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             a.. Problems uncorrected 3 years later
             a.. Crowd descends on free clinic to
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             a.. Robert Rivard: How animals are
treated helps define a city and its people

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Galvan is a supervisor at the San Antonio Animal
> Care and Control shelter, commonly known as the
> pound. On this humid morning, when the gas chamber
> was ready for another load, the husky would join a
> grim processional that this year will send nearly
> 50,000 cats and dogs to their deaths - more per
> capita than any other major American city.
>
> Masked by euphemism and hidden from the public, the
> ritual of animal euthanasia proceeds unabated every
> day but Sunday.
>
> In some ways, what happens in San Antonio is no
> different from what happens nationwide; dealing with
> strays and unwanted pets is a pound's sad mission.
>
> But nowhere does death cast a longer shadow than at
> San Antonio's pound. Simply entering virtually
> assures an animal's doom.
>
> Despite what some visitors are told when leaving
> unwanted pets, animals stand almost no chance of
> being adopted, thanks to old-school policies,
> bureaucratic inertia and a shoestring budget. So
> even as the national euthanasia rate plummets and
> many other cities save most of the animals they take
> in, San Antonio's kill rate has doubled in the past
> 18 years.
>
> Almost nine of every 10 cats and dogs that enter the
> pound are put to death, many within an hour of
> arriving.
>
> The San Antonio Express-News recently spent more
> than 50 hours at the city pound. The newspaper found
> a facility that's woefully behind the times, one
> overseen by officials with no plan for promoting
> adoptions or reducing the number of unwanted animals
> coming through its doors and few designs for
> bringing in volunteers or partnering with
> animal-rescue groups.
>
> The pound has failed to adopt more humane practices
> of handling animals in the three years since a
> national consulting agency criticized the agency.
>
> Now, as the city designs a new $12 million shelter
> scheduled to open in 2007 on an 8-acre Southwest
> Side site, the pound stands at a crossroads.
>
> Will it follow the lead of more progressive cities
> and try to save more pets? Or will San Antonio
> continue to underfund the pound and close its eyes
> to the assembly line of death behind its doors?
>
> Mayor Ed Garza said enacting sweeping reforms at the
> pound might be difficult given the "big issues with
> our budget." Things "don't change overnight," the
> mayor said.
>
> But he added, "It's certainly troublesome, and as an
> animal lover it certainly doesn't make me feel good,
> but the option is to raise property taxes."
>
> Former Mayor Howard Peak called many of Animal
> Control's practices shameful and added that it would
> be inexcusable for the city not to institute
> far-reaching reforms.
>
> "The city needs to take advantage of the fact that
> we're going to be, in essence, starting from
> scratch," Peak said. "San Antonio ought to aspire to
> be part of that top echelon. How people act toward
> animals is very much how they act toward people."
>
> The death chamber
>
>
> The building where animals go to die is a square,
> windowless structure the size of a two-car garage.
> Located on 2 acres across from the Brackenridge Park
> Zoo, it sits amid low-slung cinderblock and cement
> buildings in a complex that includes four kennels, a
> clinic and an administrative building.
> Founded in the 1940s as a division within the city
> health department, the pound is supposed to control
> rabies, investigate dog bites, enforce leash laws,
> run the city's largest lost-and-found for animals
> and send out dogcatchers to clear the streets of
> strays.
>
> Unlike private shelters, the pound must take in
> every animal left at its door, providing a valuable
> public service on a tight budget.
>
> Last year, officials added the word "care" to the
> pound's name to show the public there's a softer
> side to the business of tending unloved beasts. But
> spin can't alter the harsh realities of the pound or
> its nondescript house of doom.
>
> The pound has three gas chambers. It takes five
> minutes to kill a dog in one. That's time enough to
> run a mile. Or listen to the long version of a rock
> song.
>
> In a properly functioning chamber, animals don't
> suffocate or choke. There is no difference in air
> pressure and no foul odor as a chamber is saturated
> with 6 percent lethal gas. Hypoxia sets in quickly
> as oxygen in red blood cells is replaced by carbon
> monoxide. It's the lack of oxygen that renders
> animals unconscious in 40 to 60 seconds, and dead in
> five minutes.
>
> William Lammers, the pound's veterinary services
> manager, has been an ardent backer of the chambers
> during his 18 years at the pound.
>
> Lammers calls gassing the most humane method of
> euthanasia. Lethal injections easily can be botched,
> he said, because it's often difficult to locate the
> veins of scared or aggressive animals.
>
> But few if any other major cities still use the gas
> chamber, which has fallen out of favor in the same
> way electric chairs have for human executions.
>
> New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and Miami switched to
> injections years ago. Chicago transitioned more
> recently. St. Louis is doing it now.
>
> Franklin County, Ohio, where the city of Columbus
> is, switched when its county administrator showed up
> one day and ordered the pound's director to unplug
> the chamber.
>
> Douglas Fakkema, a leading expert on animal
> euthanasia who until recently worked for the
> American Humane Society, abhors the gas chamber and
> devotes part of his time training animal-control
> employees around the country to switch to lethal
> injections.
>
> Fakkema disagrees with Lammers' belief that
> employees are emotionally less impacted stuffing
> animals into a chamber, flicking a switch and
> fleeing a room.
>
> "It's in fact worse," he said. "If somebody cares
> about animals, having to run from the box so you
> don't have to hear the howling and scratching at the
> door, there's no question that's hard on the
> worker."
>
> David Lee Nichols can attest to that.
>
> The animals Nichols puts to death as a senior kennel
> supervisor at the pound haunt him after hours, the
> memory of their faces visiting him when he's fishing
> at Calaveras Lake or settling into bed for the
> night.
>
> Nichols, one of several workers whose duties include
> operating the gas chambers, is the reluctant
> executioner. He wheels and runs after loading the
> gas chamber and throwing the switch so he won't have
> to hear the cries of dying cats and dogs.
>
> "Believe you me, you cannot harden yourself to
> this," Nichols said, tears flowing as he talked
> about identifying dogs he must select to euthanize.
>
> Lammers has no plans to end the practice of gassing
> animals. He intends to either transfer the three
> chambers to the new facility when it opens in 2007,
> or buy new ones, at a cost of about $20,000 each.
>
> Catch and kill
>
>
> The pound's adherence to old-style procedures has
> done little for its image.
> While many other pounds embrace volunteers to foster
> young animals - whose immune systems cannot
> withstand the diseases that run rampant in a shelter
> - San Antonio gasses all puppies and kittens younger
> than 4 months so no sick or diseased animal will be
> adopted.
>
> The Humane Society of the United States has not
> taken a position on the use of carbon monoxide gas,
> though it has called the practice of gassing puppies
> and kittens unacceptable.
>
> While many other pounds aggressively promote
> adoption, the vast majority of animals here go to
> their deaths without ever being viewed by
> prospective owners. Adoption kennels often sit empty
> for days - with few pets offered for adoption.
>
> Only about 4 percent of the 53,000 animals that were
> impounded in San Antonio last year were adopted.
> Meanwhile, Miami placed animals in new homes at a
> rate five times that of San Antonio; Dallas at twice
> the rate.
>
> Caught in a catch-and-kill cycle, city leaders have
> been slow to accept innovative approaches that have
> sent euthanasia rates nationwide plummeting 80
> percent in the past two decades, according to
> figures from the Washington-based Humane Society of
> the United States.
>
> Cities such as San Francisco and Austin promote free
> spaying and neutering and embrace volunteers and
> rescue groups. Many cities showcase adoptable
> animals in parks and malls.
>
> In New York City, adoptions are up 101 percent in
> the past 12 months, said Ed Boks, a leader of the
> "no-kill" movement and director of that city's
> Animal Care and Control. Last year, New York killed
> 27,000 fewer animals than did San Antonio, according
> to Boks' figures.
>
> Compared to cities such as San Diego, whose
> progressive animal control policies and
> state-of-the-art pound are held out as models; and
> Denver, which saves 76 percent of its animals, San
> Antonio's kill numbers are embarrassing, city
> leaders acknowledge.
>
> San Antonio has taken some positive steps.
>
> In 1997, the pound entered into a partnership with
> three private organizations to create the Animal
> Resource Center, a South Side spay and neuter
> clinic.
>
> More than 25,000 surgeries have been performed at
> the clinic since its founding, most on animals that
> come from poor households.
>
> The agency now permits the city's two private
> shelters to remove pound animals free of charge. The
> Humane Society of Bexar County takes out as many as
> 30 animals a week.
>
> But the measures haven't changed the pound's basic
> mission, nor have they reduced the number of animals
> picked up each year and killed.
>
> Lammers said there's no systematic plan to bring
> down the numbers, and noted the new facility will
> have plenty of room around it to expand.
>
> Two architectural firms are drawing up designs for
> the new shelter, which they vow will be an inviting
> place for families looking for a new pet or
> searching for a lost one.
>
> It will be bright and airy, with fenced-in areas for
> people to interact with prospective pets and
> isolation units to house sick animals. There will be
> enough space so cats aren't crammed four and five to
> a cage.
>
> And the city hopes the new facility will be able to
> hold animals a few days longer so more lives are
> spared, Lammers said.
>
> But will a new building be enough to reverse the
> culture of killing?
>
> While San Diego spent an average of $431 per animal
> at the shelter last year, San Antonio spent $60.
> Compounding the situation is the fact that San
> Antonio has reduced staffing at the pound by 8.5
> percent in the past five years.
>
> "We've never had enough," Lammers said. "We know
> that, and I'm sure the mayor and the City Council
> know that. But when you have drive-by shootings and
> problems of that sort, where are you going to put
> your resources?"
>
> The lack of resources is apparent in the pound's
> lobby. There are no adoption counselors or
> volunteers; there's no money to pay for someone to
> coordinate them.
>
> A visitor's first contact with the agency is one of
> two clerks behind glass.
>
> But neither of them told Tabatha Ross, a West Side
> mother of two, that the two kittens she was dropping
> off with confidence they would be adopted would be
> dead before the afternoon was over.
>
> Lies to owners
>
>
> Whether by neglect or design, deception is built
> into the process.
> Workers making $9 an hour bear the brunt of public
> contempt - Animal killer! anonymous callers scream
> into the phone at them - and often they avoid
> telling people the grim truth: Owner-surrendered
> animals don't have to be held for two days as do
> strays, so typically they go from the truck directly
> into a cage and then into a gas chamber.
>
> Consider Roland Gonzales.
>
> Each morning at 7, Gonzales, 32, climbs in a flatbed
> truck carrying 18 metal cages from the 1940s and
> drives to his South Side district, a 20-square-mile
> area from downtown south to Loop 410 and from
> Interstate 37 to Pleasanton Road.
>
> This is among the poorest of the 13 animal-control
> districts in San Antonio. Because there's a
> correlation between poverty and the concentration of
> stray and vicious dogs, it's also among the busiest.
>
>
> Gonzales, a laid-back, 10-year agency veteran who
> goes about his job stoically, sometimes drives 85
> miles in a single morning, hunting for strays and
> issuing warnings or citations to people who let
> their animals roam.
>
> He also collects unwanted pets.
>
> At Gloria Hernandez's modest Ashley Road home,
> Gonzales listened patiently. Hernandez, a retired
> restaurant manager, was having a hard time, she told
> him. Her rheumatoid arthritis made caring for three
> dogs a pain.
>
> The dogs would fare better if put up for adoption,
> she said.
>
> Gonzales handed her a form stating that only a small
> percentage of the animals entering the pound are
> placed in new homes. Hernandez signed it.
>
> What were the chances her dogs would be adopted? she
> asked.
>
> Fifty-fifty, Gonzales told her.
>
> "Do people actually go down there to adopt?"
> Hernandez asked.
>
> "Yes," Gonzales said. "And if they're put up for
> adoption, they'll stay in the adoption kennel until
> they're adopted."
>
> Back in the truck, Gonzales explained himself: He
> tells people their pets stand a good chance of being
> adopted because he doesn't want to be negative, he
> said.
>
> What does Lammers think of that?
>
> "We don't have a lot of college graduates going out
> there who have been to Dale Carnegie who can
> communicate," he said.
>
> Hernandez wept when told later that her dogs were
> sent to the chamber.
>
> "I wouldn't have let them go if I knew they would go
> down so quickly," she said.
>
> Few spared
>
>
> Which animals will live and which will die?
> It's a question left to veterinarian Roque Gonzales
> and two of his technicians.
>
> The men walk the kennels, clipboards in hand,
> eyeballing animals through the cages and deciding
> their fates in a split second.
>
> With only 24 cages in the adoption room, the odds
> aren't good for the more than 300 cats and dogs
> Gonzales and his men appraise at any one time.
>
> They look for the adorable and the eager, the
> tail-waggers that "jump up and say, 'Take Me! Take
> Me! Take Me!'" Gonzales said.
>
> Labrador mixes are a dime a dozen. So are black
> dogs. The so-called "aggressive dog breeds," the pit
> bulls, Shar-Peis and Rottweilers? They go down, all
> of them.
>
> Sixty percent of all animals killed at the pound
> display no health problems or signs of problematic
> behavior, Gonzales said.
>
> They die because they are too young or too old, too
> mangy or too beaten down. They die because they are
> the wrong color, size or breed. They die simply
> because they are unremarkable.
>
> Out of some 200 dogs he appraised one day recently,
> Gonzales spared three. The rest received a death
> sentence: a handwritten "NFA" - Not For Adoption -
> on the back of a half-page sheet of paper.
>
> Pitiless process
>
>
> The grim processional to the chamber starts each
> morning at 7:30 with a procedure called "the pull" -
> a rounding up of the animals whose luck has run out.
>
> Moving quickly from cage to cage, kennel to kennel,
> the workers inspect each animal's paperwork.
>
> Doomed dogs are walked or dragged from their cages
> and loaded into cages in the center of each kennel.
>
> Cats are loaded into crates, often with nooses
> slipped around their necks, and carried to the dogs'
> kennels, where they are crammed into cages with
> other cats.
>
> Pandemonium reigns during the 90 minutes it takes to
> sort the animals.
>
> Dogs bark incessantly. Terrified cats huddle in
> piles or cling to the ceiling of the metal grating.
>
> Young dogs go down with old ones. Fancy pedigrees go
> down with mongrels. Whatever advantages a dog or cat
> may have enjoyed before entering the pound vanish
> inside the tractor cage.
>
> That's how it happens most mornings, and that's how
> it happened on the muggy morning that the husky took
> its final breath.
>
> After the carcasses of nine cats tumbled into a
> truck, each one's nine lives spent, the gas chamber
> opened for another load.
>
> A kennel worker, grasping the sides of the husky's
> crate, wheeled it across the room and pushed it into
> the yawning gas chamber.
>
> Then the worker, a big man in tall rubber boots,
> slammed the clear acrylic door of the gas chamber
> and flicked a switch on top.
>
> There was silence, then a hissing noise. Carbon
> monoxide gas filled the chamber.
>
> At first the reddish-brown husky scratched at the
> door and raised its head, swinging it from side to
> side.
>
> Then its howls became muffled cries.
>
> After 20 or 30 seconds, the mutt next to the husky
> fell. Then the husky collapsed, unconscious but not
> yet dead.
>
> There was time for the kennel attendant to pull from
> another chamber the carcasses of four dogs then dump
> them through a chute into the parked truck below.
>
> By 10:07 a.m., 31 cats and 66 dogs - including the
> husky and his mixed-breed companions in the rusty
> crate in which they were delivered to their doom -
> had died this way.
>
> Three hours after the first gassing, the cacophony
> of panicked barking dogs and screeching cats drew to
> a close.
>
> Men hosed down cages in the shade, awaiting the
> trucks that would soon return with their morning
> loads.
>
> The new arrivals would be counted, sorted, tagged -
> and led away.
>
> lsandberg@express-news.net (@express-news.net)
>
> Coming Monday: Pet haven in San Diego
>
>
>
>
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