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San Angelo shelter reports September caseload, residents flag recurring data discrepancies
Summary
City staff reported September intake and outcome figures including a 65.08% live-release rate; public commentators and committee members pressed for reconciled beginning/ending inventory counts after a resident produced a spreadsheet showing recurring monthly discrepancies.
Amanda Weddle, the shelter services manager for San Angelo’s Animal Shelter Advisory Committee, reported September intake and outcome figures and field-service activity during the committee meeting.
Weddle told the committee the shelter had 326 new arrivals in September, 138 adoptions or transfers, 32 owner redemptions and 315 animals left in custody at month’s end. The shelter recorded 103 deceased outcomes — 54 dogs, 45 cats and 4 others — listed as 23 aggressive, 52 sick or injured and 28 for capacity. Weddle said the shelter’s live-release rate was 65.08 percent. Field services logged 493 calls, including 265 stray responses, 98 enforcement or rechecks, 96 wildlife calls and 18 bite investigations.
During the public-comment period Juliana Evans handed the committee a spreadsheet covering the previous year’s monthly tallies and said the reported totals “consistently incorrect” in ways she flagged as serious: she cited 16 animals unaccounted for in October 2024 and a 31-animal discrepancy in July 2025 and urged staff and the committee to examine the recurring errors.
Committee members asked staff to provide clearer opening and closing inventories and to explain the calculation method used to produce the “left in custody” number. Weddle said she will begin maintaining a beginning inventory and provide comparative monthly reconciliations going forward and that she would review the specific discrepancies Evans had identified.
Interim director Morgan Chegweden presented bite-investigation figures for two months during the meeting: she reported 13 bite investigations for August (8 animal-to-person, 5 animal-to-animal) and later said there were 18 bite investigations in a more recent count (15 animal-to-person, 3 animal-to-animal). Chegweden noted that animal-to-person investigations receive additional scrutiny because they are governed by state law.
What happens next: Weddle and staff said they will follow up with court and IT partners to produce more detailed monthly breakdowns (for example: citations issued, breeder-permit counts, and stray responses that resulted in impound) and will bring updated reconciled figures to the committee at a future meeting.
