For the past decade and more, national and local animal organizations have blamed puppy producers for euthanasias in shelters and promoted sterilization as the only way to
decrease shelter deaths.
Not exact matches
Since launching NKLA in 2012, the number of
deaths at city
shelters has
decreased by 82 %.
Since the NKLA initiative began,
shelter deaths in the City of Los Angeles has
decreased by almost 50 %.
Since the Project began on January 1, 2005, total
shelter deaths in New York City have
decreased 35 %, from 31,816 in the baseline year to 20,818 in 2006.
In 1999, in response to an 85 %
death rate at the city
shelter, she started EmanciPET, a low cost and free spay / neuter clinic in an effort to
decrease the number of homeless animals.
Between 2009 and 2015, the intake of community cats at Jacksonville Animal Care and Protective Services
decreased from 5,173 to 2,604 a 50 %
decrease that translated into a
decrease in
shelter deaths (overall cat intake during that same timeframe
decreased from 12,920 to 6,427).
Thus, they are not
decreasing the number of
deaths substantially, just pushing the killing off to other
shelters.
Since the introduction of the microchip, more
shelter pets have been returned to their loving homes, significantly
decreasing the chances of life at a
shelter, or worse,
death at a
shelter.
Since the NKLA initiative began in 2012,
shelter deaths in the City of Los Angeles has
decreased by 82 %.