Emerging from the pandemic, Dallas Animal Services has been overwhelmed by new challenges to both its lifesaving and public-safety aims. Now the wrong numbers...
Ten months into the job, the city’s animal services director faces big challenges at a precarious moment.
It’s a precarious time at the shelter, and these next six months will reveal much about Webber’s leadership, particularly her ability to rebuild key parts of the operation that broke down during COVID-19 and its aftermath. No matter how many times I’ve been inside the shelter — walking as I did Wednesday alongside those hundreds of kennels filled with dogs begging to be taken home — I’m overwhelmed by the number of unwanted pets that wind up here.
While puppies and small fluffy dogs at the Dallas shelter are adopted as soon as they go into a kennel, the larger dogs — available in all shapes, colors and personality types — sit and wait.Dallas’ live-release rate is still a respectable 80%, which means the shelter saved almost 17,000 dogs and cats in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30.was firing on all cylinders, both inside the shelter and out.
The department is close to getting its last field openings filled and right-sizing other pay disparities. A dog available for adoption, named Brian by the staff, during feeding time at Dallas Animal Services Wednesday. Not until the deadly mauling of South Dallas resident Antoinette Brown by a pack of dogs in May 2016 did City Hall finally quit dragging its heels over overhauling the department.
Jazzy peers through her kennel on one of the adoption aisles as another dog is fed Wednesday at Dallas Animals Services.
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