Sentences with phrase «percent kill rate»

In fact, the 81 percent kill rate demonstrated during the first four days was nothing new for Summit County; in 1988, Kissel told the Beacon Journal that 90 — 95 percent of the 3,000 — 4,000 cats brought into the shelter each year were killed.

Chile peppers were in the next group, with about a 75 percent kill rate.

Some are part of an underground railroad transporting dogs from shelters in the South with «96 percent kill rates,» says Wellens.

Not exact matches

For Jeb Bush, killing the health care law was equivalent to getting the U.S. economy growing again at his target 4 percent growth rate.

That is, would expectations of outsized demand growth — of, say, 4 percent per year over the next four years in inflation - adjusted terms — generate undue inflationary pressures that would require the Federal Reserve to respond by raising interest rates, essentially killing off any actual growth that those expectations could generate?

The Flyers have a penalty - kill percentage of 76.9 percent, the third - lowest rate in the league.

It was a great episode to be a character arriving to a scene out of focus; there was a 100 percent chance you were showing up on - screen to kill someone (only a 67 percent success rate, though).

Compared with lions, which successfully kill just 20 percent of the animals they stalk, wild dogs have a hunting success rate ranging from 40 to 80 percent.

The rate at which children die as passenger vehicle occupants has decreased 55 percent, while the rate at which they are killed as pedestrians and bicyclists is about one - tenth of 1975 rates.

-- Interest rates could double if U.S. debt is downgraded — «Home Loans ``, for example, that are now below 5 percent, could surge to 9 - 10 percent, killing any chance of fixing the «Housing Crash» or cutting the unemployment rate, which now stands at 9 percent.

If you have 20 - something percent interest rates and the interest is just killing you, then yes, by all means, attack those credit cards with the highest interest rates first.

They worry about what might happen if they live too long, if financial markets collapse (thus killing any 4 percent draw down plan), if interest rates go up or down, or if dividends get cut.»

Dogs have reached an 84.7 percent save rate, which is closing in on the 90 percent no - kill threshold.

We're beyond excited to announce the launch of a new program that has the potential to save the lives of thousands of shelter pets — and help push New York City further toward the 90 percent save rate threshold to be recognized as a no - kill city.

That's a statewide live release rate of 83 percent, with zero animals being killed to make room for incoming homeless pets.

According to Los Angeles Animal Services (LAAS), the save rate at the six city shelters hit 82.6 percent in 2016, thanks to the leadership of Best Friends Animal Society and its NKLA initiative, coming ever closer to the 90 percent no - kill benchmark that would make Los Angeles the nation's largest no - kill city.

It is also possible that the opposite could be true — that a given community may achieve no - kill even if the save rate isn't 90 percent.

At the Austin Animal Center, the county's largest no - kill municipal shelter, last year the save rate was 96.4 percent.

«It is important to note that a 90 percent save rate is not necessarily defined as no - kill.

A live save rate of 90 percent of every dog and cat entering the city shelter system is the nationally recognized benchmark for no - kill status.

No More Homeless Pets in Utah goes on to adopt over 100,000 animals, spay and neuter 237,000, achieve 12 no - kill communities (and counting), and currently has over an 85 percent save rate for dogs statewide.

Dozens of communities throughout the country make a declaration of intent to go no - kill and several achieve the 90 percent no - kill save rate.

«Nationally, no - kill means you have a 90 to 92 percent live - release rate.

Shelters in such areas are overrun, with kill rates ranging from 50 to 95 percent.

In many regions, they're killed immediately upon shelter admission, with no opportunity to find a new home and their overall euthanasia rate hovers around a staggering 93 percent.

A save rate of 90 percent is considered no - kill, with 10 percent of shelter pets deemed too sick or violent to place into homes.

Communities that have enacted these practices are seeing up to a 90 percent no - kill rate — save for the 10 percent, in most cases, where an animal was humanely euthanized due to terminal illnesses, severe behavior issues, or overall poor quality of life from health issues, Castle said.

She's agreed to work with a nationwide charitable consulting group, Target Zero, which aims to bring city shelters to «zero kill,» which they define as a 90 percent save rate, in less than three years.

After finishing the year saving 98 % of cats and 94 % of dogs, the fourth year Shelby County, Kentucky had 90 + percent save rates, they announced they were crowded and would begin killing animals.

While communities across the country are ending the killing of healthy and treatable animals, with save rates as high as 98 percent, in 2011, PETA killed 96 percent of all dogs and cats and 93 percent of other companion animals such as rabbits that it took in, despite revenues of over 30 million dollars a year and millions of animal - loving members.

During the first six months, the kill rate tapered off to 70 percent.

Thanks to a new partnership with a nonprofit that helps shelters across the country move toward a no - kill model, Pugh believes that rate can be lowered to 10 percent.

A 90 percent save rate is the threshold that must be achieved for any community to be considered no - kill, and that includes all shelters, regardless of their individual operating models.

The no - kill movement — and indeed it is a movement — includes a growing list of very diverse stakeholders, some of whom have achieved and exceeded the 90 percent threshold save rate and others who are well on their way or are committed to transforming their community to embrace no - kill policies and who have practices and a track record of openly stating that commitment and advocating it to others.

In 2012, Ellen linked up with San Antonio Pets Alive to implement the no - kill programs that have proven successful in Austin, increasing the live release rate in San Antonio from 30 percent to 82 percent in three years.

Austin Pets Alive became the driving force behind bringing the entire city of Austin to a greater than 90 percent save rate, becoming the largest no - kill city in the U.S..

The threshold for a no - kill community is considered to be a 90 percent save rate of all animals entering the shelter system.

«Using low values,» then, Temple and Coleman multiplied their estimated 1.4 million rural free - roaming cats in the state by 28 («twice urban kill rate»), and then multiply that by 20 percent (the «low dietary percent,» as they call it, though it's actually a gross misinterpretation of Mike Fitzgerald's work, as Ellen Perry Berkeley points out in her 2004 book TNR Past Present and Future: A history of the trap - neuter - return movement [14]-RRB-.

That's an astounding rate of 64 percent of intake animals killed.

According to the Public Record, the county - run shelter killed 4,830 of the 7,766 cats it took in between summer 2010 and 2011, for an abysmal 37.8 percent live - release rate.

For the fifth consecutive year, the Animal Services Office helped make Austin home to the largest No Kill municipal shelter in the country by achieving a record 96 percent live outcome rate.

At the open admission No Kill shelter I oversaw, the average length of stay for animals was eight days, we had a return rate of less than two percent, we reduced the disease rate by 90 percent from the prior administration, we reduced the killing rate by 75 percent, no animal ever celebrated an anniversary in the facility, and we saved well over 90 percent of the animals (over 95 % using comparative save rate calculations).

And last month the kill rate was 17 percent, a remarkable turnaround.

In February of 2011, Austin Texas became the largest US city to reach «No - Kill» status (90 percent or higher save rate at the city's animal shelter).

That means more than 90 percent of dogs to enter Utah shelters are being saved, and a 90 percent save rate is the benchmark for no - kill.

No Kill is roughly defined as a 90 percent live outcome rate or higher.

Badass Brooklyn's mission is to rescue dogs on death row from pounds where the kill rates can reach 90 percent or higher.

Between 1998 and 2001 the kill rate at TLAC dropped from 85 percent to 50 percent.

Making Utah a no - kill state means that animal shelters will have achieved a combined save rate of 90 percent — that is, at least 90 percent of the animals entering the shelter system leave alive.

The progress there is ahead of schedule, and we expect to reach the 90 percent save rate threshold for a no - kill community in 2017.