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Orange County Animal Services Sheltering Practices and Philosophies Zg <br />Tompkins County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to <br />Animals <br />The Tompkins County (NY) SPCA is one of the primary shelters quoted by No-Kill advocates as <br />an indication that the policy can work. Their website at http://www.spcaonline.com is very <br />outdated, according to their Assistant Director Pam Stonebraker, so the information below was <br />obtained through telephone conversation with her on August 30, 2006. <br />Tompkins County SPCA is presently practicing a successful policy of placing all <br />adoptable and treatable animals from their shelter, which is the only one for <br />Tompkins County and operates under contract with the county government. <br />Tompkins County SPCA also provides the Animal Control services. <br />They take in roughly 3,000 animals per year, with a budget of about $900,000. <br />About 60% of this is provided by donations, 30% by the county contract, and <br />10% by the income garnered through fees. They also have afull-time staff <br />veterinarian who is paid through a grant from Maddie's Fund. <br />They are an open-admission shelter, though some admissions have to be put on <br />await-list -dogs have an average wait time of about a week, though cats <br />typically do not have to wait and may be taken in right away. They do not see an <br />over-abundance of puppies, and cat litters are much higher in number than dog <br />litters. <br />They have a very significant foster program, and work with rescue groups for <br />purebred animals. All kittens and puppies go into foster until they can be <br />sterilized and placed out for adoption. <br />They also routinely send some of their animals down to North Share Animal <br />League in Port Washington, NY (Long Island) - a minimum of 400 animals a <br />year. NSAL maintains a shelter that does not take animals from the public, and <br />does not euthanize adaptable animals. <br />They perform temperament testing on dogs, and will euthanize dangerously <br />aggressive dogs -they also euthanize far terminal illnesses. They do not <br />euthanize for space.. <br />They have a reclamation rate of roughly 40% for dogs, about 2% for cats <br />