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Animal Services Monthly Report February, 2007 <br />3 <br />the coming year, these graphs will be prepared and are expected to be presented along <br />with reports of standard statist ics for a given month. <br />Adoptions and “Lives Releases” <br />The placement of healthy and behaviorally sound animal companions is one of the <br />foremost object ives of Orange County’s Animal Services Department. The direct <br />placement or “reho ming” of small animals, cats and dogs occurs through our own <br />adoption program. In addition, many companio n animals are transferred to “placement <br />partners”—that is, nonbreed as well as breed specific rescue organizat ions for cats and <br />dogs (as well as other animals)—for their final placement on the basis of addit ional effort <br />and evaluation by these various animal organizat ions. <br />Adoptions and transfer are two of the three elements of what may be referred to as “live <br />releases.” Animal companio ns recovered by their owners or a custodian—usually if not <br />always “stray” animals brought to Orange County’s Animal Shelter either by one o f our <br />Animal Control Officers or a member of the public—form the third element of animals <br />that are released alive. <br />Using this basic formula, it is easy to calculate the total (or abso lute) number of animals <br />that are released alive fro m Orange County’s Shelt er. 1 The figures needed to make this <br />calculation are provided by table B.1.Monthly Dispositions: February, 2007. For the <br />mo nth, there was a total of 155 “live releases,” consist ing of 66 adoptions, 57 transfers <br />and 32 returns to owners or custodians. <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. As shown by table B.2. Live <br />Release for Placeable and Recovered Animals, for the month of February this “rate” is 71 <br />percent. It is calculated by dividing the number of animals that were released alive by <br />the total number of potentially placaeble animals whose disposit ion was decided in the <br />mo nth. 2 As previously indicated, placeable animals do not include animals surrendered <br />by their owner for euthanasia, feral cats, or animals that died before arriving at or while at <br />our Animal Shelter. <br />1 It should be said that we are using “live release” rather than “placement” for two very specific reasons as well as <br />because it has become a standard in the field of animal welfare since the appearance of the Asilomar Accords <br />(http://www.asilomaraccords.org/). One reason is that it includes all animals that are not euthanized, i.e., transfers to <br />placement partners and returns to owners and custodians as well as direct adoptions. The other reason is that it does not <br />presume that an animal transferred to placement partners is, in fact, “rehomed.” In the absence of feedback data from <br />these organizations, which is desirable and an objective toward which we are working, there is no way to know what <br />decision they have ultimately made about the disposition of a particular animal. <br />2 Note that that the total number of placeable animals does not include (1) feral cats (as these are typically not placed); <br />(2) animals surrendered for euthanasia by an owner (usually due to illness, infirmity or a behavior problem); and (3) <br />animals that died in our custody as a result of untreatable injury or illness. In our previous monthly reports, this was <br />referred to as the “adoptable placement rate” versus the “gross placement rate,” insofar as the latter was determined on <br />the basis of all animals dispositioned in a given month.
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