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Orange County Animal Services Sheltering Practices and Philosophies 29 San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals The San Francisco SPCA is considered the leader in the field of adoption/placement programs, and is referred to routinely. Information on this page is taken directly from a packet they sent at our request in August 2006 (with the exception of the county population figure). The shelter for the SF SPCA is aprivately-funded, limited-intake facility and separate from the San Francisco Animal Care & Control open-door facility, though they work in close cooperation with them, The animal control facility also adopts out animals. In Fiscal year 2005, the SPCA had a staff of 150, with an additional 885 volunteers. Their budget was $11,664,000. Volunteer hours were 112,260. The SPCA also boasted 10,000 donating members. Shelter capacity is approximately 200 animals, though they have an approximate average population of 500, with the assistance of Maddie's Pet Adoption Center, Community Veterinary Services, and their Foster Care and Hearing Dag programs, meaning that up to 60% are housed outside of the SPCA facility itself, For Fiscal Year 2005, the SPCA achieved a 91 % adoption rate - 77% cats, 23% dogs, Their information packet lists 3,557 adoptions out of 2,497 intakes for Fiscal Year 2003, a discrepancy that is not fully explained. Animal Care & Control statistics for Fiscal Year 2003 also have a similar problem, having 362 animals from its 6,857 Intakes unaccounted far. Their figures show a 22..5% euthanasia rate, But due to the discrepancies, combined statistics for the county as a whole cannot be determined. SF SPCA credits a great deal of their success to ahigh-volume spay/neuter program and education, causing a significant reduction in combined SPCA/ACC intakes -from 9,720 in FY 2000, to 8,612 in FY 2001 (11.4% reduction), to 7,836 in FY 2002 (9% reduction), to 7,264 in FY 2003 (7.3% reduction). All of these numbers are low for a county that boasts a population of 739,426 [US Census Bureau 2005 estimate], In Fiscal Year 200.5, they sterilized 6,533 animals; 1,474 of those were feral cats, The statistics also seem to indicate far more cats than dogs being handled, not surprising for an area as completely urbanized as San Francisco County.