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Animal Services Monthly Report February, 2007 <br />4 <br />For February, there is a slight decline in the number of total adoptions for the month by <br />comparison wit h the same mo nth of the previous year. There is also a slight decline <br />when compared to the five preceding months. Using the same points of comparison, we <br />can see that “lives releases” are also slight ly lower for the month of February. Init iatives <br />have been taken to ensure that we can and do continue to place as many healt hy and <br />behaviorally sound animals as possible given our core responsibilit ies, available <br />resources and the dynamics of pet overpopulation. <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 animals so metimes referred to as <br />“surplus” pets; the extent to which cats, rabbits and dogs alike are spayed or neutered <br />rather than allowed to remain intact with the likelihood of eventual reproduction; the <br />strength of norms and customs of responsible pet ownership; the scope and strength of <br />animal regulations and their effective enforcement; and other such “variables” are what <br />affect the number of animals that are sheltered in our own and other communit ies. <br />Month by mo nth there are significant changes in the numbers of cats, dogs and other <br />animals that are sheltered at Orange County’s Animal Shelter. This month 392 animals <br />were sheltered. By comparison, in August of last year 751 animals were sheltered and <br />December of last year, 512 animals were sheltered. In very general terms, this “spread” <br />in the number of animals sheltered reflects the seasonal nature of sheltering. <br />Moreover, it should be underscored that the “live release rate” for a given time period is <br />determined by the number of animals that are sheltered as well as the absolute or total <br />number of animals that are adopted, transferred, or recovered by their owner. It may <br />well be that there is a very high percentage animals that are released alive in a given <br />mo nth but that the abso lute number is lower than in other months because of the number <br />of animals that come to the shelter. <br />Wit h respect to the month of February, for instance, a higher percentage of animals were <br />released alive than in January—71 percent versus 61 percent; however, the number of <br />live releases is lower in February than in January—155 versus 179 animals. Quite <br />simply, the reason for this is that the number of animal sheltered was so mewhat higher <br />last month than this month. <br />To work toward the desideratum o f ending euthanasia as a means of population control, it <br />is thus essent ial to posit ively impact the number of animals that come into Orange
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