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Animal Services Monthly Report <br />September, 2007 <br />4 <br />For the month, there was a total of 195 “live releases,” consist ing of 142 adoptions, 23 <br />transfers and 30 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. 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. As shown by Table B.2 Live Release for Placeable and Recovered Animals, for <br />the month of September this “live release rate” is 70 percent. <br />The number of placeable animals is determined by subtracting animals surrendered for <br />euthanasia, feral cats, and deceased animals from the total number of animals <br />disposit ioned in a given mo nth. For the month of September, there were 362 total <br />animals disposit ioned. When we remove the animals surrendered for euthanasia, the feral <br />cats and those animals that arrived dead or died of an untreatable injury while at the <br />shelter, we are left with 277 “placeable” animals. To find the “live release rate,” we must <br />then divide the total number of “live releases” (195) by the total number of potentially <br />placeable animals whose disposit ion was decided in the month (277)—and as Table B.2 <br />shows, the rate is 70 percent for the month of September. 2 <br />Finally, wit h respect to adoptions themselves, several observations can be made. By <br />comparison wit h September 2006,there is an increase in the number of adoptions (142 <br />vs. 122), although the “live release” total shows a slight decrease (195 vs. 220). For <br />2007, September has the second highest number of adoptions for the year. Moreover, <br />September has the fourth highest “live release” total when compared to the preceding <br />mo nths of this year, during which it ranged from 155 (in February) to 230 (in June). <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 and reproduce; the strength of norms and customs of <br />responsible pet ownership; the scope and strength of animal regulations and their <br />effect ive enforcement; and other such “variables” are what affect the number of animals <br />that are sheltered in our own and other communit ies. <br />2 In our early 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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