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Animal Services Monthly Report January, 2008 <br />4 <br />Moreover, it is possible to determine the rate of live release for placeable animals and <br />animals that have been recovered for a given mo nth. Placeable animals do not include <br />animals surrendered by their owner for euthanasia (usually due to illness, infirmit y or a <br />behavior problem); feral cats (as these are typically not placed); or animals that died <br />before arriving at the shelter or in our custody as a result of an “untreatable” injury or <br />illness. The number of placeable animals is determined by subtracting animals <br />surrendered for euthanasia, feral cats, and deceased animals fro m the total number of <br />animals disposit ioned in a given mo nth. <br />For the month of January, there were 261 total animals disposit ioned. When we remove <br />the animals surrendered for euthanasia, the feral cats and those animals that arrived dead <br />or died of an untreatable injury while at the shelter, we are left with 244 “placeable” <br />animals. To find the “live release rate,” we must then divide the total number of “live <br />releases” (170) by the total number of potentially placeable animals whose disposit ion <br />was decided in the month (244)—and as can be seen in Table B.2 Live Release for <br />Placeable and Recovered Animals, the rate is 70 percent for the month of January. 2 <br />Wit h respect to adoptions themselves, finally, several observations can be made. By <br />comparison wit h December 2007,there is a slight decrease in the number of adoptions <br />(124 vs. 125), and a slight decrease in the number of “live releases” (170 vs. 174). When <br />compared with January in 2007, there was an increase in adoptions for the month (124 in <br />January 2008 vs. 99 in January 2007), but a slight decrease in the total number of live <br />releases (170 vs. 179). <br />Pet Demographics and Overpopulation <br />It is o ften said that pet problems are people problems, and that pet overpopulation is a <br />communit y problem. These insights very much apply to our own circumstances and they <br />help create a broader perspective in which to understand our own sheltering statist ics. <br />More specifically, the number of animals that are sheltered in a given period of time is <br />itself not caused by or a direct function of our shelt ering operations and practices. The <br />number of unwanted animals in our communit ies (sometimes referred to as “surplus” <br />pets); the extent to which cats, rabbit s and dogs alike are spayed or neutered rather than <br />allowed to remain intact and reproduce; the strength of norms and customs of responsible <br />pet ownership; the scope and strength of animal regulations and their effect ive <br />enforcement; and other such “variables” are what affect the number of animals that are <br />sheltered in our own and other communit ies. <br />Monthly and Seasonal Variations <br />2 In earlier monthly reports, this was referred to as the “adoptable placement rate” versus the “gross placement rate,” <br />insofar as the latter was determined on the basis of all animals dispositioned in a given month.
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