Millions for salaries? But less than 300,000 for spay and neuter. We have a homeless pet crisis in this county. I rescued 3 puppies off the side of the road July 9, 2025. Next month I will have had them for 1 full year. I asked for help from multiple shelters and was told that if I sign my rights over the puppies would be put down. I did not go through all that with them for them to be dead. I was not offered spay and neuter services like what is advertised. I got a call 8 months later from an employee from Fresno animal center saying I was supposed to be given a voucher for spay and neuter services since I was keeping the dogs. You pay those people salaries who can barely do their jobs? We need to stop this homeless dog dumping crisis. I applied for the snip bus, if you don’t know about it, look it up. Anyways out of MY OWN MONEY, I got all 3 spay and neutered. People dump dogs because they can’t afford them or don’t want them, and then someone like me reaches them asks for help and doesn’t receive it from any animal shelter in this county. It’s getting as bad as skid row in LA with the animal crisis. Do better, support the dogs, protect their futures, and get better employees at these shelters who KNOW what they’re doing, and offer help to those like myself who go out of their way to assist hurt and abandoned animals.
We need more help with spay and neuter asap. These animals need are help. Everywhere u look there’s an animal, either alive and on the streets or dead. It’s not their fault. Please help these cats and dogs. Their life matters more than your high end salary. Do the right thing and help fund these animals!!
Fresno cannot shelter its way out of the animal overpopulation crisis. The most effective solution is prevention. Please increase funding for spay and neuter programs and invest in stopping unwanted litters before they enter our shelters. Prevention saves lives, reduces shelter overcrowding, and saves taxpayer dollars.
Fund prevention, not just the consequences.
I oppose this budget and we should all take note of the fraud and corruption going on here, asking for millions more in salaries but none for spay and neuter? Way to sink any faith the public had in you, putting the animals last and yourselves first. Its sickening. Family visiting from other states were extremely disturbed by the animal population crisis and the great failures on display. We respectfully demand a dedicated line item for feral and community cats & dogs, expanded low-cost spay/neuter services for owned pets, and partnerships with local nonprofit organizations. Every dollar invested in prevention saves multiple dollars in shelter operations while improving animal welfare and public safety.
The most cost-effective way to reduce shelter overcrowding is to prevent unwanted litters before they enter the Fresno Animal Center. We respectfully request a dedicated line item for feral and community cats & dog, expanded low-cost spay/neuter services for owned pets, and partnerships with local nonprofit organizations. Every dollar invested in prevention saves multiple dollars in shelter operations while improving animal welfare and public safety.
I live in apartments complex and their idea to fox the problem. Is not to feed the spays as they keep repsuceing....Not working .....but if someone could help with cost there people willing to help out I am sure if that fee was removed tou could have alot more volunteers traping
Talk about top heavy! Spending 5 million towards salaries, wages and benefits is not the answer to our animal crisis! The most cost-effective way to reduce shelter overcrowding is to prevent unwanted litters before they enter the Fresno Animal Center. We respectfully request a dedicated line item for feral and community cats & dog, expanded low-cost spay/neuter services for owned pets, and partnerships with local nonprofit organizations. Every dollar invested in prevention saves multiple dollars in shelter operations while improving animal welfare and public safety
We are in desperate need of more spaying and neutering funds. The only way to get the overpopulation under control is to spay and neuter more animals. Not only is this inhumane for the animals but it is also creating a public safety issue. Between dog attacks and animals running out infront of cars it is a real danger created. We are going to start see more attacks on children if this continues.
Spending $7.7 million of a $9.6 million FAC budget on salaries, wages and benefits is a gross example of bureaucratic bloat without commensurate delivery of community services. Based on my 10 years of experience and observation in the Central Valley animal rescue community, the services the City attempts to provide through the Animal Center could be provided better and cheaper by private non-profits. Every single day, Central Valley non-profits provide rescue, medical care, spay/neuter and other services to the Fresno community faster, cheaper and with more expanded service hours than FAC does. If the Council is genuinely interested in addressing the animal control problems as cost-effectively as possible, it should consider allocating half the FAC budget to private sector non-profits and funding their efforts.
I support adequately funding animal control staff, but prevention is dramatically underfunded. If we want fewer animals on the streets, fewer crowded shelters, and lower long-term costs, we must invest far more aggressively in spay/neuter and prevention programs. The current allocation focuses on managing the consequences rather than reducing the cause.
Our shelters are full, rescue groups and volunteers are overwhelmed, and residents are too often told to return found animals to the streets because there is nowhere for them to go. This is distressing and heartbreaking for both the people trying to help and the animals left vulnerable on our streets. A budget is a statement of values. Right now, this budget allocates millions to managing the crisis and only a fraction to preventing it. The animals, shelters, volunteers, and taxpayers of this city deserve better.
The most cost-effective way to reduce shelter overcrowding is to prevent unwanted litters before they enter the Fresno Animal Center. We respectfully request a dedicated line item for feral and community cats & dog, expanded low-cost spay/neuter services for owned pets, and partnerships with local nonprofit organizations. Every dollar invested in prevention saves multiple dollars in shelter operations while improving animal welfare and public safety.
The most cost-effective way to reduce shelter overcrowding is to prevent unwanted litters before they enter the Fresno Animal Center. We respectfully request a dedicated line item for feral and community cats & dog, expanded low-cost spay/neuter services for owned pets, and partnerships with local nonprofit organizations. Every dollar invested in prevention saves multiple dollars in shelter operations while improving animal welfare and public safety
The most cost-effective way to reduce shelter overcrowding is to prevent unwanted litters before they enter the Fresno Animal Center. We respectfully request a dedicated line item for feral and community cats & dog, expanded low-cost spay/neuter services for owned pets, and partnerships with local nonprofit organizations. Every dollar invested in prevention saves multiple dollars in shelter operations while improving animal welfare and public safety
Put money towards spay and neuter. In the long run it will cost the city less money then running a shelter at max capacity. The most cost-effective way to reduce shelter overcrowding is to prevent unwanted litters before they enter the Fresno Animal Center. We respectfully request a dedicated line item for feral and community cats & dog, expanded low-cost spay/neuter services for owned pets, and partnerships with local nonprofit organizations. Every dollar invested in prevention saves multiple dollars in shelter operations while improving animal welfare and public safety.
truly disheartening when we the people of the county try to save stray animals that are most of the time in near death situations, and the first thing we are told when seeking help is to release them back where they were found. it’s truly sickening, when all of these strays could slowly slow down by simply offering spay and neutering more frequently with budget friendly options. people with go get the help of it was offered more. Every clinic that Fresno has, get filled with families willing to go in the county just needs to sponsor and offer it so we can truly see the difference. With that being said I believe if the budget would be higher it’d benefit the community by increasing the surgeries being preformed .
Please allot more money to help solve a problem and not create a bigger one. Animals deserve better. People should not be getting paid more when they barely do there job as it is
The spay and neuter budget is ridiculous. How do we ever come out of this crisis without funds for spay and neuter? Reduce those salaries and increase spay and neuter budget.
Millions for salaries? But less than 300,000 for spay and neuter. We have a homeless pet crisis in this county. I rescued 3 puppies off the side of the road July 9, 2025. Next month I will have had them for 1 full year. I asked for help from multiple shelters and was told that if I sign my rights over the puppies would be put down. I did not go through all that with them for them to be dead. I was not offered spay and neuter services like what is advertised. I got a call 8 months later from an employee from Fresno animal center saying I was supposed to be given a voucher for spay and neuter services since I was keeping the dogs. You pay those people salaries who can barely do their jobs? We need to stop this homeless dog dumping crisis. I applied for the snip bus, if you don’t know about it, look it up. Anyways out of MY OWN MONEY, I got all 3 spay and neutered. People dump dogs because they can’t afford them or don’t want them, and then someone like me reaches them asks for help and doesn’t receive it from any animal shelter in this county. It’s getting as bad as skid row in LA with the animal crisis. Do better, support the dogs, protect their futures, and get better employees at these shelters who KNOW what they’re doing, and offer help to those like myself who go out of their way to assist hurt and abandoned animals.
I believe that this proposal for the budget is way out of hand for employees wages when we have a crisis on our hands as far as animal be dumped
I believe that this proposal for the budget is way out of hand for employees wages when we have a crisis on our hands as far as animal be dumped
We need more help with spay and neuter asap. These animals need are help. Everywhere u look there’s an animal, either alive and on the streets or dead. It’s not their fault. Please help these cats and dogs. Their life matters more than your high end salary. Do the right thing and help fund these animals!!
Fresno cannot shelter its way out of the animal overpopulation crisis. The most effective solution is prevention. Please increase funding for spay and neuter programs and invest in stopping unwanted litters before they enter our shelters. Prevention saves lives, reduces shelter overcrowding, and saves taxpayer dollars.
Fund prevention, not just the consequences.
I oppose this budget and we should all take note of the fraud and corruption going on here, asking for millions more in salaries but none for spay and neuter? Way to sink any faith the public had in you, putting the animals last and yourselves first. Its sickening. Family visiting from other states were extremely disturbed by the animal population crisis and the great failures on display. We respectfully demand a dedicated line item for feral and community cats & dogs, expanded low-cost spay/neuter services for owned pets, and partnerships with local nonprofit organizations. Every dollar invested in prevention saves multiple dollars in shelter operations while improving animal welfare and public safety.
The most cost-effective way to reduce shelter overcrowding is to prevent unwanted litters before they enter the Fresno Animal Center. We respectfully request a dedicated line item for feral and community cats & dog, expanded low-cost spay/neuter services for owned pets, and partnerships with local nonprofit organizations. Every dollar invested in prevention saves multiple dollars in shelter operations while improving animal welfare and public safety.
I live in apartments complex and their idea to fox the problem. Is not to feed the spays as they keep repsuceing....Not working .....but if someone could help with cost there people willing to help out I am sure if that fee was removed tou could have alot more volunteers traping
Talk about top heavy! Spending 5 million towards salaries, wages and benefits is not the answer to our animal crisis! The most cost-effective way to reduce shelter overcrowding is to prevent unwanted litters before they enter the Fresno Animal Center. We respectfully request a dedicated line item for feral and community cats & dog, expanded low-cost spay/neuter services for owned pets, and partnerships with local nonprofit organizations. Every dollar invested in prevention saves multiple dollars in shelter operations while improving animal welfare and public safety
We are in desperate need of more spaying and neutering funds. The only way to get the overpopulation under control is to spay and neuter more animals. Not only is this inhumane for the animals but it is also creating a public safety issue. Between dog attacks and animals running out infront of cars it is a real danger created. We are going to start see more attacks on children if this continues.
Spending $7.7 million of a $9.6 million FAC budget on salaries, wages and benefits is a gross example of bureaucratic bloat without commensurate delivery of community services. Based on my 10 years of experience and observation in the Central Valley animal rescue community, the services the City attempts to provide through the Animal Center could be provided better and cheaper by private non-profits. Every single day, Central Valley non-profits provide rescue, medical care, spay/neuter and other services to the Fresno community faster, cheaper and with more expanded service hours than FAC does. If the Council is genuinely interested in addressing the animal control problems as cost-effectively as possible, it should consider allocating half the FAC budget to private sector non-profits and funding their efforts.
I support adequately funding animal control staff, but prevention is dramatically underfunded. If we want fewer animals on the streets, fewer crowded shelters, and lower long-term costs, we must invest far more aggressively in spay/neuter and prevention programs. The current allocation focuses on managing the consequences rather than reducing the cause.
Our shelters are full, rescue groups and volunteers are overwhelmed, and residents are too often told to return found animals to the streets because there is nowhere for them to go. This is distressing and heartbreaking for both the people trying to help and the animals left vulnerable on our streets. A budget is a statement of values. Right now, this budget allocates millions to managing the crisis and only a fraction to preventing it. The animals, shelters, volunteers, and taxpayers of this city deserve better.
The most cost-effective way to reduce shelter overcrowding is to prevent unwanted litters before they enter the Fresno Animal Center. We respectfully request a dedicated line item for feral and community cats & dog, expanded low-cost spay/neuter services for owned pets, and partnerships with local nonprofit organizations. Every dollar invested in prevention saves multiple dollars in shelter operations while improving animal welfare and public safety.
The most cost-effective way to reduce shelter overcrowding is to prevent unwanted litters before they enter the Fresno Animal Center. We respectfully request a dedicated line item for feral and community cats & dog, expanded low-cost spay/neuter services for owned pets, and partnerships with local nonprofit organizations. Every dollar invested in prevention saves multiple dollars in shelter operations while improving animal welfare and public safety
The most cost-effective way to reduce shelter overcrowding is to prevent unwanted litters before they enter the Fresno Animal Center. We respectfully request a dedicated line item for feral and community cats & dog, expanded low-cost spay/neuter services for owned pets, and partnerships with local nonprofit organizations. Every dollar invested in prevention saves multiple dollars in shelter operations while improving animal welfare and public safety
Put money towards spay and neuter. In the long run it will cost the city less money then running a shelter at max capacity. The most cost-effective way to reduce shelter overcrowding is to prevent unwanted litters before they enter the Fresno Animal Center. We respectfully request a dedicated line item for feral and community cats & dog, expanded low-cost spay/neuter services for owned pets, and partnerships with local nonprofit organizations. Every dollar invested in prevention saves multiple dollars in shelter operations while improving animal welfare and public safety.
truly disheartening when we the people of the county try to save stray animals that are most of the time in near death situations, and the first thing we are told when seeking help is to release them back where they were found. it’s truly sickening, when all of these strays could slowly slow down by simply offering spay and neutering more frequently with budget friendly options. people with go get the help of it was offered more. Every clinic that Fresno has, get filled with families willing to go in the county just needs to sponsor and offer it so we can truly see the difference. With that being said I believe if the budget would be higher it’d benefit the community by increasing the surgeries being preformed .
Please allot more money to help solve a problem and not create a bigger one. Animals deserve better. People should not be getting paid more when they barely do there job as it is
This is ridiculous! We need more budget for spaying, neutering and aiding cats and dogs!!!!
The spay and neuter budget is ridiculous. How do we ever come out of this crisis without funds for spay and neuter? Reduce those salaries and increase spay and neuter budget.