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Animal Defense League of Texas (San Antonio)


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The Animal Defense League was established in 1934 by a group of individuals, “for the prevention of cruelty to animals; to promote kind and humane treatment of animals; and to aid and assist the enforcement of laws enacted for the prevention of animal cruelty.”

ADL began with just a few makeshift chicken-wire cages in response to a need to shelter stray and injured dogs and cats in the San Antonio area. Along with providing basic shelter and care, emphasis has always been placed on adopting animals to homes where they will receive loving care and attention for the rest of their lives.


11300 Nacogdoches Road
San Antonio, Texas 78217-2318
Telephone: 210-655-1481

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No-kill shelters do wonderful work, but as a result, are often inundated with pet surrenders. In the unfortunate scenario that you have to find a new home for your pet, please read through the rehoming solution and articles on this page before contacting the shelter.

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Feral Cat TNR Program
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High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter
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Rescue Groups
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Foster Care
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5
Comprehensive Adoption Programs
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4.5
Pet Retention
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5
Medical and Behavior Programs
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5
Public Relations/Community Involvement
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5
Volunteers
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5
Proactive Redemptions
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5
A Compassionate Director
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1. Feral Cat TNR Program

Many communities are embracing Trap, Neuter, Release programs (TNR) to improve animal welfare, reduce death rates, and meet obligations to public welfare.


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2. High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter

Low cost, high volume spay/neuter will quickly lead to fewer animals entering the shelter system, allowing more resources to be allocated toward saving lives.


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3. Rescue Groups

An adoption or transfer to a rescue group frees up scarce cage and kennel space, reduces expenses for feeding, cleaning, killing, and improves a community's rate of lifesaving. In an environment of millions of dogs and cats killed in shelters annually, rare is the circumstance in which a rescue group should be denied an animal.


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4. Foster Care

Volunteer foster care is crucial to No Kill. Without it, saving lives is compromised. It is a low cost, and often no cost, way of increasing a shelter's capacity, improving public relations, increasing a shelter's public image, rehabilitating sick and injured or behaviorally challenged animals, and saving lives.


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5. Comprehensive Adoption Programs

Adoptions are vital to an agency's lifesaving mission. The quantity and quality of shelter adoptions is in shelter management's hands, making lifesaving a direct function of shelter policies and practice. In fact, studies show people get their animals from shelters only 20% of the time. If shelters better promoted their animals and had adoption programs responsive to the needs of the community, including public access hours for working people, offsite adoptions, adoption incentives, and effective marketing, they could increase the number of homes available and replace killing with adoptions. Contrary to conventional wisdom, shelters can adopt their way out of killing.


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6. Pet Retention

While some of the reasons animals are surrendered to shelters are unavoidable, others can be prevented-but only if shelters are willing to work with people to help them solve their problems. Saving animals requires communities to develop innovative strategies for keeping people and their companion animals together. And the more a community sees its shelters as a place to turn for advice and assistance, the easier this job will be.


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7. Medical and Behavior Programs

In order to meet its commitment to a lifesaving guarantee for all savable animals, shelters need to keep animals happy and healthy and keep animals moving through the system. To do this, shelters must put in place comprehensive vaccination, handling, cleaning, socialization, and care policies before animals get sick and rehabilitative efforts for those who come in sick, injured, unweaned, or traumatized.


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8. Public Relations/Community Involvement

Increasing adoptions, maximizing donations, recruiting volunteers and partnering with community agencies comes down to one thing: increasing the shelter's exposure. And that means consistent marketing and public relations. Public relations and marketing are the foundation of all a shelter's activities and their success. To do all these things well, the shelter must be in the public eye.


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9. Volunteers

Volunteers are a dedicated "army of compassion" and the backbone of a successful No Kill effort. There is never enough staff, never enough dollars to hire more staff, and always more needs than paid human resources. That is where volunteers come in and make the difference between success and failure and, for the animals, life and death.


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10. Proactive Redemptions

One of the most overlooked areas for reducing killing in animal control shelters are lost animal reclaims. Sadly, besides having pet owners fill out a lost pet report, very little effort is made in this area of shelter operations. This is unfortunate because doing so-primarily shifting from passive to a more proactive approach-has proven to have a significant impact on lifesaving and allow shelters to return a large percentage of lost animals to their families.


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11. A Compassionate Director

The final element of the No Kill equation is the most important of all, without which all other elements are thwarted-a hard working, compassionate animal control or shelter director not content to regurgitate tired cliches or hide behind the myth of "too many animals, not enough homes." Unfortunately, this one is also oftentimes the hardest one to demand and find.


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Olive is a female schnauzer, less than a year old. She does not have a chip and did not have a collar on. She is silver and black, about 8 lbs. Please contact Destiny at (210) 414-9964 if found.
posted by Lorissa Ortiz, on 2023-08-10 15:50:48
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Hi my name is Isabella my dog Jessie has gone missing she’s a light coffee brown pitbull she’s about 5 year old I lost her on Saturday night on the south side of San Antonio by stonewall st please if anyone has any information please call 2105714437 she has no tags but she is chipped
posted by Isabella Avina, on 2023-02-07 01:56:46
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I lost my 2 brindle dogs, one is large sized one is medium sized. Both are intact and have their collars on . They escaped from the westside of San antonio. Pls help me bring them back home ! (210)430-2721
posted by Irene Campos, on 2022-12-27 19:29:53
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I lost a boxer she's a girl and please help she has a unicorn shape on her neck
posted by HAZE LOL, on 2022-11-13 21:24:01
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my black and whit cat named werro / tommy has been missing for about a week, he’s an outside cat but has never left for more than two days, he has a heart like shape on his left side, he has a long black fluffy tail and all white face up to the lower part of his ears. he has a naive spot on his nose and very dark almost black ears, please let me know if seen, i miss my baby. (210)789-9795
posted by xo.analisa, on 2022-10-01 19:26:12
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My name's Gisselle and my dog has been missing since Friday September 9,2022. She was last seen in front of my yard outside the gate, she is a small white shih-tzu has short hair with a long tail and for a collar a pink ribbon. Her name is Marley. I live on Cibolo st in the 78207 area , the landmarks I'm close to are Martinez park and the old Cooper Middle school. Main Street next to Laredo. if any one has seen her please contact my cell 210-307-2757 . I love you Marley
posted by [email protected], on 2022-09-12 19:38:29
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( target bull terrier owner ) Contact me if any 210-343-0343
posted by Skarlet Nino, on 2022-09-08 00:02:34
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Lost my Target , White mix bull terrier with black spots , black hearshaped spot nose . He is still a pup , last seen in The Southside , Crystal St with a male and woman . Goes by the name “ Target”
posted by Skarlet Nino, on 2022-09-08 00:00:51
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I lost my Henry. He is a small dog,white long hair. He is microchiped. Please contact me at 813-453-1727
posted by [email protected], on 2022-08-31 20:28:28
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My Ava female cat has been missing since March 2022 she's a calico no microchip
posted by Connie Suarez, on 2022-08-23 16:19:39
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