The more rural and less affluent counties exhibit larger
intake at animal control facilities and experience significantly higher euthanasia rates.
Not exact matches
On Wednesday, I posted about a new «Performance Standard» that Kansas City, MO is implementing that is requiring
animal control officers write
at least 15 citations each month and
intake 20
animals.
Therefore, decreasing shelter
intake is a key goal for many communities not only to reduce euthanasia risk, but also to decrease the distress for owners and
animals from relinquishment, and to reduce costs
at shelters and
animal control organizations.
Her work
at NHS was the first example I'm aware of where marketing was successfully applied in a high -
intake community to raise shelter adoption rates to a level where the shelter literally ran out of
animals, even after pulling all the savable
animals (including medical cases) from the local
animal -
control facility.
In June 2014, the ASPCA launched a «Safety Net» program
at two of the highest
intake Los Angeles County shelters in partnership with the Los Angeles County Department of
Animal Care &
Control and the Los Angeles County
Animal Care Foundation.