San Antonio Humane Society

Our goals are to:

-Decrease the stray pet population through low-cost spay/neuter programs and community education.
-Provide shelter, medical treatment, and loving care to as many needy pets who have been abandoned, abused, and neglected as possible.
-Provide affordable preventative medical care for pet owners.
-Educate our city's children on the importance of pet responsibility and humane living.
-Find loving forever homes for the amazing dogs and cats in our care.
-Advocate for the voiceless in our mission to protect and improve the lives of dogs and cats in our city.

-We will continue to provide low-cost services for San Antonio's pet owners, including affordable spay/neuter surgeries and preventative medical care.

-We will generate awareness of our services as well as the challenges facing our community through media, events, and information sessions.

-We will strive to expand our services and capabilities to reach as many needy pets as possible, regardless of their owners' socioeconomic status.

-We will continue to grow our Humane Education program to teach our city's children the importance of responsible pet ownership, so the next generation of pet owners will not continue to add to the overpopulation of homeless pets in San Antonio.

We have a team of talented, experienced and dedicated leaders in the areas of veterinary medicine, animal welfare and care, adoption services, education, and communications. In addition, our volunteer program provides us the depth of staff required to achieve our goals.

While we have contributed significantly to the live release rate improvement at Animal Care Services (San Antonio), there remains a significant stray animal challenge in our community. We must continue to focus on the root cause of the problem, in order to see significant progress toward our vision.

In 2017, the City of San Antonio chose the SAHS to run the Brooks Spay/Neuter Clinic in the Southside of town. With the addition of this 2nd location, we completed nearly double the amount of spay/neuter surgeries we typically accomplish in a year. We are thrilled with this achievement as we believe sterilization surgeries afford us the greatest opportunity to combat the neglect, abuse, and abandonment of innocent pets by considerably decreasing the number of unwanted births.

In 2019, the SAHS completed construction of the Leeu Naylor Medical Building. This state-of-the-art medical building will allow us to DOUBLE the number of spay/neuter surgeries performed at the SAHS on Fredericksburg Road to an annual count of 20,000.

Other goals include:
-Simultaneously performing surgeries on injured pets without putting spay/neuter surgeries on hold
-Diversifying and expanding the types of medical cases we are able to receive
-Isolating the management of contagious, but treatable, diseases
-Increasing space to hold and care for animals awaiting and recovering from treatments or procedures