The union representing the frontline workers at San Jose's beleaguered Animal Care Center has implored the city to hire a new director from outside the ranks, warning that a failure to do so would erode trust, morale and service and perpetuate the very dysfunction the city claims to want to fix. Although the city is pushing forward with recommendations from a scathing audit that took the shelter to task for operating above capacity and poor conditions,
Around 200 calls were received by the helpline over the weekend after the audit report by a British surgeon highlighted concern about the high level of potentially unnecessary hip dysplasia surgeries in Temple Street Hospital and Cappagh Hospital.