They focus on shelters with
the highest euthanasia numbers, and then ask them what they need and how Best Friends can help them connect to the resources they need.
Not exact matches
According to an article by Asiaone,
euthanasia rates have been decreasing — from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015, a total of 963 animals were put to sleep at the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), down from 1,068 the previous year — but these
high numbers still prove that overpopulation is a glaring issue, and more can be done to educate everyone about it.
There are the surplus animals in shelters struggling with
high intake
numbers and
euthanasia.
It's a percentage that allows for
euthanasia and a small
number of natural deaths, while being
high enough to imply that pets aren't being killed for other reasons.
Funds are now very very low due to
high number of many
high medical vet care needs / emergency vet care and emergency boarding (to save puppies / dogs from
euthanasia).
An overwhelming
number of dogs in Connecticut municipal pounds are Pit Bulls and Pit Mixes, making these dogs at
high risk for
euthanasia.
Oakland Animal Services
Euthanasia Rates Plummet, Shelter Saves Record -
High Number of Animals (East Bay Express, 27 October 2015)
Meanwhile, encouraging owners to keep pet cats inside can potentially impact a much
higher number of cats than even a large - scale impoundment and
euthanasia program.
Our mission is to provide
high quality care to pets while providing affordable services so that we can help decrease the
number of
euthanasias due to financial limitations and help provide treatment options to caretakers with financial concerns.
How HSTV Operates: HSTV partners with open admission shelters (shelters that are funded by tax payer dollars and do not refuse any animal) in 33 surrounding counties and growing that are faced with low adoption
numbers and consequently
high euthanasia rates.
I do not include lost / died in shelter care or owner - requested
euthanasia in calculating the live release rate, but instead will note separately if those
numbers appear unusually
high.
Nearly all open - admission shelters across the U.S. are plagued with a similar reality: pit bulls occupy 30 % or more of animal shelter space,
high pit bull
euthanasia rates12 and a
high number of pit bull bites.
In 2003, Costa Rican government outlawed
euthanasia as a form of animal population control so instead, this nation relies on
high - volume, low - cost spay and neuter programs to keep
numbers of unwanted animals at manageable levels.
But despite ten years of hard work that had helped make a dent in Dekalb and Fulton's intake
numbers,
euthanasia rates were still alarmingly
high, at 50 % and 65 %, respectively.
We believe that spay / neuter efforts like our SpayUSA program, which since 1993 has provided referrals to
high quality, affordable spay / neuter procedures across the country, are crucial to reducing
euthanasia numbers nationwide.