[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: LA Shelter Statistics
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- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:27:24 EST
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LA Animal Services continues making progress towards its â??No-Killâ?? Goal.
(No-Kill is achieved when LA Animal Services is able to use the same criteria
a
compassionate private veterinarian or a loving pet guardian uses to
determine if/when a dog or cat is euthanized. That is, LA will have achieved
â??No-Killâ??
when no healthy or treatable dog or cat is euthanized because of a lack of
space, time, or resources.) The numbers one through seven on the left side of
the charts represents the years 2001 through 2007 and compare only the
months of January through October.
Comparing the first ten months of 2007 with the same time period in previous
years, we see LA Animal Services has reduced dog and cat euthanasia nearly
61% compared to 2001. In the first ten months of 2007, dog and cat euthanasia
was reduced by another 24% compared to the same time period in 2006.
Comparing the first ten months of 2007 with the same time period in previous
years, LA Animal Services reduced dog euthanasia 74% compared to 2001 and
over 15% compared to 2006!
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As has been explained in previous reports, cats are a more challenging
species when attempting to achieve no-kill. However, over the past six years,
LA
Animal Services has reduced cat euthanasia over 41% and nearly 29% in 2007
compared to the same ten month time period in 2006.
While our Foster Care Program has been a huge success in saving the lives of
many neonate puppies and kittens, it has been impossible to save them all.
There has been a 94% increase in the number of animals who have died while in
the care of LA Animal Services or a Foster Care Giver. The chart below shows
the increase in these unfortunate deaths. Although it is regrettable that we
could not save all these animals, at least this year, thanks to over 100
volunteer Foster Care Givers, we were able to make a valiant effort to do so.
These numbers also highlight the importance of our continued spay/neuter and
foster efforts.
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Despite the increase in the number of dogs and cats dying for reasons other
than euthanasia, the overall number of animals dying for any reason while in
the care of LA Animal Services (which includes loving foster care givers and
private veterinarians) is down 20% compared to the first ten months of 2006
and down 58% compared to the same time frame in 2001.
Thanks to our extraordinary volunteers and employees, LA Animal Services did
reduce the number of neonate kittens euthanized in 2007 by 55% compared to
2006 and by 69% compared to 2003 which was the worst year recorded.
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The above chart shows over a 23% increase in adoptions and over a 38%
increase in New Hope placements in the first ten months of 2007 compared to
2001.
It also shows over a 10% increase in adoptions and a very modest 0.85%
decrease in New Hope placements in 2007 compared to the first ten months of
2006.
(The New Hope program was formally launched in 2006. Prior to that, similar
activities were conducted under different programmatic names.)
The above chart shows the number of live releases including lost pets
Returned to or Redeemed by Guardians.
When compared to the Intake/Rescue chart below we are able to calculate the â??
live release rateâ??. The Live Release Rate is the number of animals that are
adopted, placed through our New Hope
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program, and returned to pet guardians compared to the number of animals
taken in or rescued by LA Animal Services.
In 2001, 54,437 dogs and cats were taken in and 18,880 were released for a
Live Release Rate of 34%. In 2007, 39,320 dogs and cats were taken in by LA
Animal Services and 22,255 dogs and cats were released for a Live Release Rate
of nearly 57%.
While the â??Live Release Rateâ?? has increased over the past six years it is
important to understand that as a community approaches â??No-Killâ?? the Live
Release Rate will ultimately plateau and then decline. The reason for this is
because as you achieve a true â??No-Killâ?? community, the only animals
entering a
municipal shelter should be animals that are terminally ill, injured, or
dangerously aggressive. All others will be in the care of loving homes or
rescue
organizations.
Without question we have significant challenges to achieving No-Kill in the
City of Los Angeles. Those challenges include the proliferation of feral
cats, pit bulls, and an increase in imported pets from US puppy mills, Mexico,
Korea, and other parts of the world.
Despite these challenges, LA Animal Services has taken an aggressive stand
towards reducing the number of unwanted pets and feral cats born in our
community. Through our Big Fix Spay/Neuter program over 45,000 dogs and cats
are
sterilized annually. These efforts no doubt contributed significantly to the
reduction of lost and homeless animals coming into LA City Animal Care Centers
over the past several years.
LA Animal Services is also playing an instrumental role in the development
of both state and city spay/neuter laws designed to help further transform LA
and California into a â??No-Killâ?? community. A special thanks to all our
employees, volunteers, partners and supporters for the part they play in this
historic quest!
We create happiness by bringing pets and people together!
Cathleen Bennett & Joe Guay
Rialto, Ca
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