"Shelter statistics" refers to information and data about the number of people or animals being provided with shelter, such as in homeless shelters or animal shelters. It is data that helps us understand and keep track of how many individuals are being assisted and cared for in these types of shelters.
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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.
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.
After reading the enclosed article
on shelter statistics in Oklahoma, I believe it will be some time before statewide conditions improve for the lives of our homeless pets.
The goal of the MAC
Shelter Statistics Task Force is to make standardized, high quality statewide data on homeless animals available to animal welfare programs and state and local policy decision - makers.
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.
Through the use of their robust database, Shelter Animals Count has created standardized reporting and definitions for
shelter statistics including, intakes, adoptions, return - to - owner, transfers, and euthanasia.
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Canadian Animal
Shelter Statistics Humane Canada gathers data on the number of animals entering humane society and SPCA shelters and the numbers adopted, returned to their owners or euthanized.
They deserve kudos not only for
collating shelter statistics all these years, but also for telling Michigan shelters how they are doing and giving awards to high - performing shelters.
Proponents of the «PTP» metric (which was invented by Merritt Clifton) argue that we must
standardize shelter statistics against human population to be able to compare communities to each other in a meaningful way.
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.
From there she educated herself
about shelter statistics and what terms like PTS meant for otherwise healthy, blameless animals.
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graph shelter statistics data from the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies (CFHS) and analyze the results.
Dr. Andrew Rowan is perhaps the most prominent expert today
on shelter statistics, and he believes that shelter killing nationwide fell from over 60 pets per thousand people in the early 1970s to less than 10 pets per thousand people today.
Shelter Animals Count is the only 501c3 independent organization dedicated to collecting, sharing and stewarding a national database
of shelter statistics, resulting in a greater understanding of the state of animal welfare and, ultimately, more lives saved.
What is painfully clear is a need to standardize and create best practices for reporting to ensure that all organizations are using the same definitions
for shelter statistics, including measurements for the following:
Shelter statistics are now being openly discussed.
4) Not all animals included in
the shelter statistics are adoptable.
In addition, less than 5 % of cats are claimed by their owners, compared to more than 30 % for dogs (see Canadian Animal
Shelter Statistics, Humane Canada).
On an annual basis, we publish this data in the form of the Animal
Shelter Statistics Report.
Note that the 2016 Canadian Animal
Shelter Statistics were published in our most recent Cats in Canada report, which you can find here.
Young - Williams Animal Center believes in transparency which is why we openly share
our shelter statistics with the public.
Below are Humane Animal Rescue's 2017
shelter statistics.
Standardized and transparent data - reporting practices once seemed a long way off, but Roach is excited to see how a new national database of animal
shelter statistics could change that.
The first point it is important to mention is that the dogs recorded in
these shelter statistics are not always healthy.
By looking at
the shelter statistics you can see that some shelters in the Atlanta area have a very low adoption rate and kill almost every animal that is not reclaimed by their guardians.
Additionally, Dr. Julie Levy of the Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program at UF will present «When Lives Count: Making Sense of Florida's
Shelter Statistics,» which includes a deeper look at Florida's current numbers as well as Shelter Animals Count.
Even as
shelter statistics have continued to improve, large - breed and pit - bull type dogs remain at - risk in shelters due to persistent and pervasive misinformation and misconceptions that prejudice people against them.
In 2009,
shelter statistics were widely quoted as 6 to 8 million dogs and cats entering the shelter system, with 3 - 4 million being euthanized and the same number being adopted.
Camden County Animal
Shelter statistics are published for public review.
When I write a blog post about a community, I put links in the post to
the shelter statistics I was able to find for the community.