No-kill 2012 is a Joke.

It sounded good on paper I guess and I'm sure they had the best of intentions six years ago, but no-kill 2012 is a joke and completely unattainable due to the utter lack of concern by the current city leaders and citizens in San Antonio.  There is no way you can increase intake (as ACS has been instructed to do) and decrease euthanasia.  It's basic math, people!!  The only way that it's going to happen is to change the culture in a city that doesn't want to change. A city that is currently being led by a mayor who could care less about the problem. 

Education regarding responsible pet ownership, free spay/neuter clinics, enforcement of existing city ordinances to stop the back yard breeders...all of these initiatives were to be put in place yet while I know they exist you'd be hardpressed to find them unless you were really looking.  We have to flood the city with these services so that people see them everywhere they go.  So they hear about them on the news, see them at the grocery store, the pharmacy, their workplaces, their schools.  There needs to be more money spent on mobile spay/neuter units, there needs to be education on responsible pet ownership in all the schools in every district.  There needs to be PSA's put out by the CITY and not just AAPAW. This is the only way to combat the stray problem in San Antonio so we can make the streets safer for everyone, to encourage companies to bring their business to a city that takes pride in itself and to stop the needless suffering of the animals in San Antonio and Bexar County.  But until someone who can make it happen gives a damn things will forever remain the same.  San Antonio will have one of the worst pounds in the nation for a city of its size and no-kill will remain something that happens in other towns.