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Animal Services Monthly Report November, 2007 <br />4 <br />For the month, there was a total of 216 “live releases,” consist ing of 113 adoptions, 49 <br />transfers and 54 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. The number of placeable animals is determined by subtracting animals <br />surrendered for euthanasia, feral cats, and deceased animals fro m the total number of <br />animals disposit ioned in a given mo nth. <br />For the month of November, there were 370 total animals disposit ioned. When we <br />remove the animals surrendered for euthanasia, the feral cats and those animals that <br />arrived dead or died of an untreatable injury while at the shelter, we are left with 319 <br />“placeable” animals. To find the “live release rate,” we must then divide the total <br />number of “live releases” (216) by the total number of potentially placeable animals <br />whose disposit ion was decided in the month (318)—and as can be seen in Table B.2 Live <br />Release for Placeable and Recovered Animals, the rate is 68 percent for the month of <br />November. 2 <br />Finally, wit h respect to adoptions themselves, several observations can be made. By <br />comparison wit h November 2006,there is an increase in the number of adoptions (113 <br />vs. 108), and an increase in the number of “live releases” (216 vs. 198). For 2007, <br />November has the seventh highest number of adoptions for the year. Moreover, <br />November has the third 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 />November shares the third highest “live release” total with August for 2007. <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 (sometimes referred to as “surplus” <br />pets); the extent to which cats, rabbit s and dogs alike are spayed or neutered rather than <br />allowed to remain intact and reproduce; the strength of norms and customs of responsible <br />pet ownership; the scope and strength of animal regulations and their effect ive <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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