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Residents, former staff and vets urge San Jose to hold animal shelter management accountable and restore spay/neuter services
Summary
Speakers at the public hearing said San Jose’s animal shelter has failed animals and the public in recent years, pressing the council to replace leadership, restore trap‑neuter‑return (TNR) and low‑cost spay/neuter services, and require faster public reporting on the shelter audit’s remedial steps.
San Jose — Multiple residents, volunteers and a former animal care attendant told the City Council at the budget hearing that the San Jose Animal Care Center needs immediate management changes and restoration of core services, particularly low‑cost spay/neuter and trap‑neuter‑return (TNR) programs.
"There's a lot of really big dogs there that are just left and no one's coming for them," Lori Landis, who…
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