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<br /> <br />Orange County Animal Services <br />501 W. Franklin St, Suite 106, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 (919) 968-2287 <br /> <br /> <br />Animal Disposition Summary Report: <br />January 2007 <br /> <br />February 14th, 2007 <br /> <br />Due to staff vacancies, it has not been possible to produce and post our regular monthly report in for <br />January 2007. Integral to the monthly report is a set of statistical tables that include the disposition of <br />animals at Orange County’s Animal Shelter as well as intake numbers and numbers regarding rabies <br />cases and vaccinations. <br /> <br />As a result of one staff vacancy, it was necessary to recreate our ability to produce statistical table <br />concerning animal intakes and dispositions, a task staff diligently worked toward and accomplished <br />toward the end of the year. While performing their regular duties, they worked with others to reproduce <br />and validate the process for generating shelter statistics, using the same tools and methods that we <br />previously used for this purpose. <br /> <br />Below please find our standard statistical reports for the month of January 2007. These are exactly the <br />same statistical reports as appear in monthly reports for the previous months of 2006 and the months of <br />2005 for which these monthly reports were produced and posted on our website. All that is different is <br />that these reports are presented without accompanying narrative, essentially due to our more limited <br />human resources as a result of two staff vacancies we are in the process of filling. <br /> <br />With regard to our sheltering activities and their effective administration, these statistics remain as <br />important in the present as they have been in the past. They assist us in identifying and tracking trends of <br />note, and they enable us to communicate openly and easily with stakeholders, partners, and the general <br />public about our operations and activities. <br /> <br />For the month about which we are reporting, there is generally an increase in the number of animals <br />admitted to the shelter by comparison with the same months of the previous year. By comparison with the <br />preceding year, there is also a decline in the number of adoptions and the total number of “live releases” <br />(consisting of not only adoptions but animals transferred to other organizations and ones recovered by <br />their owners and custodians). While these declines may well be affected by increased admissions, they <br />are attributable to other factors as well in the complex processes that affect animal dispositions as well as <br />pet demographics. <br /> <br />We thus want to reflect upon possible reasons for changes in the number of adoptions and ”live releases” <br />as well as inventory the initiatives that we have taken to ensure that we are placing as many healthy and <br />behaviorally sound animals as we possibly can. While each of these subjects is addressed in the <br />following sections, what should be said here is that our initiative are closely related to our monitoring of <br />our sheltering activities on the basis of the statistics presented herein. <br /> <br />Initiatives have been taken to ensure that we can and do continue to place as many healthy and <br />behaviorally sound animals as possible given our core responsibilities, available resources and the <br />dynamics of pet overpopulation here as well as elsewhere. As always, such initiatives as well as our <br />regular services rely not only upon the dedicated efforts of our staff but their collaboration with other