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Animal Services Monthly Report April, 2007 <br />4 <br />For April, there is an increase in the number of total adoptions for the month by <br />comparison wit h the same mo nth of the previous year. The adoption number for the <br />mo nth also compares favorably to recent months. “Live releases” are also quite a bit <br />higher for the month when compared to the year before. Once again, this number <br />compares well with the previous four months. Initiatives have been taken to ensure that <br />we can and do continue to place as many healt hy and behaviorally sound animals as <br />possible given our core responsibilit ies, available resources and the dynamics o f pet <br />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 460 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 high percentage number of animals that are released alive in a <br />given month but that the abso lute number is lower than in other months because of the <br />number of animals that come to the shelter. <br />Wit h respect to the month of April, for instance, a lower number of animals were released <br />alive than in March—168 versus 170; however, the percentage of live releases is higher <br />in April than in March—73 percent versus 70 percent. Quite simply, the reason for this is <br />that the number of animal sheltered was somewhat higher this month than last 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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