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Susan Pearce trundles through the parking lot pushing a plastic two-tiered intake cart loaded with a dozen empty carriers. It’s this short walk that links San Francisco’s Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SF SPCA) to Animal Care and Control (ACC), the city-run shelter. The cages rattle and shake, practically trembling in anticipation of the precious cargo awaiting them. Pearce, one of SPCA’s intake specialists, arrives at ACC as she does most weekdays to run through the available animals with Eric Zuercher, the city’s animal care supervisor. They pore over identical lists detailing descriptions and dispositions: sick or healthy, well-behaved or fractious. ACC, an open-admission shelter, takes in nearly 7,000 cats and dogs a year, plus another 2,700 animals of assorted species. That includes all the city’s strays and most of those relinquished by their owners. Animals that ACC can’t place are offered to trusted rescue groups, like the SF SPCA. After briefly e

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