Dear Editor, It has been an absolutely wonderful experience to be allowed to work within the volunteer community at Town Lake Animal Center over the last eight years. I am just afraid once I meet and interact with Abigail Smith, my warning light will come on and I will be forced to cut all ties with the TLAC programs. I will not compromise my ethics and my core beliefs by aiding an organization headed by someone who is educated enough to know better, yet because of political expediency, is a part of the problem. Someone who is actually an obstruction to solutions that embrace not only lowering the euthanasia rate but also public safety and fiscal responsibility. Someone who supports a program that sucks away our tax dollars from programs to benefit at-risk children, the homeless, the mentally ill, and seniors. Someone who is determined to prop up a faulty premise called "no kill" without assigning responsibility to those who create the problem. Someone who thinks spending more and more money and more and more resources is a viable long-term solution. Those are my tax dollars and the tax dollars and resources of my neighbors being slowly siphoned away from much-needed programs for our most vulnerable citizens to prop up a defective but politically expedient solution called "no kill.” I want no part of it! I hope I'm wrong, I'm praying I am wrong, I'd love to be wrong, but her interviews with the media and her answers in public forums say I'm not. Ms. Smith, please prove me to be wrong. I'm begging you. For the sake of our cats and dogs. For the sake of our most vulnerable citizens. Prove me wrong!