By creating standardized reporting and definitions
for shelter statistics including intake, adoptions, return - to - owner, transfers, euthanasia and shelter deaths, we will increase live outcomes.
Not exact matches
Rising numbers of homeless individuals and new contracting rules
for homeless
shelters led to a 15 percent increase in the number of contracts submitted by City Hall
for homeless services,
statistics provided by the city comptroller's office show.
However, the Asilomar Accords method is gaining momentum as a standard
for more accurately tracking animal
shelter care and euthanasia numbers; it posts annual
statistics for some 150 different U.S.
shelters on its website.
Researchers focused their study on 100 municipalities in Colorado, the only state to compile public data
for animal
shelter surrenders and other
statistics.
Statistics Canada said higher
shelter costs and food prices also increased the inflation rate, while costs
for health and personal care declined.
As the
statistics show it is impossible
for us to house and find homes
for all the cats that are dropped off at the
shelter.
If you would like to look up more information on the pit bull, or would like to see the
statistics for yourself to believe, you can find plenty of information both online and from your local animal
shelters in your area as well.
These shocking
statistics underline the severity of the homeless pet problem, and drive home the need
for pet lovers to do whatever they can to help
shelter animals.
Michael has a gift
for data and keeps up with
statistics and reporting that is required of all Virginia animal
shelters.
Complete adoption
statistics for OHS and the Animal
Shelter Alliance of Portland (ASAP) are found in the following Asilomar reports (all PDF):
Asilomar Accords are a set of criteria; guiding principles, standardized definitions, a
statistics table
for tracking
shelter populations and a formula
for determining live release rates in
shelters.
Spay / Neuter is the most substantial way to reduce unwanted pets, and here are the
statistics from the
shelter's program
for getting all adoptions spayed or neutered.
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For Shelter Count and
Statistics click here!
Statistics show that of the estimated 1.1 million cats brought to Canadian
shelters in 2011, nearly half were euthanized due to a lack of space or resources to care
for them, or illness (CFHS Cats in Canada Report 2012).
We are grateful to Beth Ward and Chris Benninger at the Humane Society of Silicon Valley, Greg VanWassenhove at County of Santa Clara, and Jon Cicirelli at the City of San Jose
for providing annual
shelter statistics.
Please click on the link below to view Maddie's Fund
Statistics for the Rohnert Park Animal
Shelter.
Vasudeva credits a number of G2Z strategies
for the positive trends, such as implementing a foster care program; collaborating with community vet clinics; communicating the new approaches to everyone internally; and sharing
shelter statistics with the public.
In Louisiana in 2010 (the most recent year
for which
statistics are available), 32
shelters reported taking in 69,540 dogs; 43,278 of them were put down, according to Maddie's Fund, a nonprofit that tracks canine euthanasia
statistics.
The Burlington County Animal
Shelter released
statistics for 2017.
Statistics indicate that at least 25 % of all
shelter animals are purebred, and breed rescues will tell you there is no shortage of purebred animals looking
for homes.
Shelter statistics from those days are sketchy, but our best guess from the available evidence is that the situation
for homeless pets reached a crisis point around 1970 due to their massive numbers.
By utilizing a standard language
for statistics,
shelters and their supporters are able to easily and clearly track progress both at a specific
shelter and across
shelters nationwide.
Dr. Julie Levy presented three short sessions, All About Cats, examining three important facets of
sheltering for felines: infectious disease,
statistics, and lifesaving programs.
Statistics show that pretty much no matter the locale; it is pretty consistent with most
shelters and rescue org's that the adoption rate is lower, the surrender rate is higher, the wait time
for adoption is longer and euthanasia rate is higher with big black dogs.
Detailed
statistics for 2017 can be found in the
Shelter Animals Count report: 2017
Shelter Animals Count Report.
Statistics for cats across
shelters in North America tend towards a 90 % kill rate, which means healthy, cute, purebred, cats are dying because people are going to breeders and pet - stores instead of
shelters.
The foundation
for managing the
shelter population of animals and assessing staffing needs rests solely on accurate
statistics for dogs, cats, puppies, neonatal puppies and neonatal kittens.
Patronek and Rowan of the Tufts University Center
for Animals and Public Policy compiled
statistics in 1996 to show that
shelters receive approximately four million dogs each year and kill about 2.4 million dogs.
Camden County Animal
Shelter statistics are published
for public review.
Yesterday I reported on the
statistics of the Charlottesville - Albemarle
shelter, which had a 94 % live release rate
for 2012.
I won't overwhelm you with all of the data, but I do think there were several key
statistics that I think are important
for rescues /
shelters to know about pet ownership in the US — and some things that I just found to be interesting.
I have tried in posting about each city and county to include links to the online
statistics available
for that community, as well as listing the main organizations in the area including animal control, the
shelter / pound, major private groups, and any umbrella coalitions.
Rockwall Pets posts the full
statistics for the municipal
shelter for 2012 online, broken down by month.
For statistics purposes, however, you can completely ignore how a
shelter classifies its intake (adoptable / unadoptable), and just look at outcomes.
The
Shelter Statistics Task Force recognized, as a first step towards data collection, the need to better understand how information on animals was collected, recorded, analyzed, and used, and what support might be needed
for these processes.
«Our annual animal
shelter statistics and anecdotal evidence seem to indicate that things are getting better
for cats in Canada, but we need this data to get a more conclusive answer,» says Barbara Cartwright, CEO of the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies.
However, a 2013 report regarding
sheltering statistics for the state of California pointed out that cats left to their own devices were 13 times more likely to find their way home on their own than if they were taken into a
shelter.
Click the badge below to view the entire
Shelter Animals Count platform and the links below it
for Flagler Humane Society
statistics.
Because there is such a high demand
for spots in animal
shelters, the ASPCA also states, «Every year, nearly 1.5 million animals living in
shelters across the U.S. are euthanized» (Pet
Statistics).
From there she educated herself about
shelter statistics and what terms like PTS meant
for otherwise healthy, blameless animals.
Although it's hard to track down reliable
statistics, the American Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals estimates that about 3.9 million dogs go to
shelters each year and 1.2 million are euthanized.
In 2014, the Colorado Department of Agriculture's
statistics showed that Colorado saved 88.91 % of all cats and dogs entering
shelters and rescues — a model
for the nation.
The
statistics we have
for pet acquisition in the 1970s and 1980s are not very comprehensive, but it appears that in those days only about 10 % of people acquired their pet from a
shelter.
«Our inability to provide reasonably valid
statistics makes it difficult to offer a credible presentation on the need
for a concerted effort to deal with the issue [euthanasia of
shelter animals], design initiatives to ameliorate the problem, or evaluate progress and performance of these efforts.»
They may work with several
shelters, and they probably don't have time to keep up on current
statistics for each
shelter, much less long - term trends in intake and live releases.
But the
statistics of how many are adopted from
shelters and how many actually visit a veterinarian
for follow - up visits shows a disturbing trend.
While «there are few long - term individual
shelter statistics or cross-sectional
statistics for the nation as a whole,» (Zawistowski et al., 1998) the field has undertaken numerous efforts to address the need
for sound data.
Do you have full
statistics (at least as much information as is contained in the Basic Matrix used by
Shelter Animals Count) for your shelter for the last 10
Shelter Animals Count)
for your
shelter for the last 10
shelter for the last 10 years?
Some of the earliest data collection efforts were conducted by the American Humane Association which collected national
shelter reporting
statistics for 1985 - 1988 and 1990 (Nasser, Talboy & Moulton, 1992)
You can find
statistics from all ASAP partner
shelter and
for the coalition as a whole here.