EUTHANASIA RATES

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

The following table states animal shelter
euthanasias per thousand human residents, all
shelters combined, for 21 urban jurisdictions
whose complete statistics for at least one of the
past three years are on file here.
Please note: over the whole U.S.,
those animal control jurisdictions with a mandate
to pick up cats tend to have higher euthanasia
rates than those that do not. Since rural and suburban
jurisdictions usually don’t have a mandate
to pick up cats, while urban jurisdictions do, the
overall U.S. norm, stated below, is probably
much lower than the norm for big cities, which
we have not calculated. The cat pickup mandates
of the cities below are essentially similar,
but other cat-related policies vary widely.

New York 5.5 (1995)
San Francisco 6.5 (1995)
San Diego (city & county) 7.5 (1994)
Seattle 7.8 (1994)
Dallas 11.2 (1994)
Hot Springs 11.9 (1994)
Orange County 12.0 (1995)
Orlando 16.4 (1995)
Portland/Multnomah Cnty. 18.0 (1994)
U .S. NATIONAL AVERAGE 19.5
Milwaukee 20.0 (1995)
Santa Clara County 20.7 (1993)
St. Louis 23.8 (1995)
Tulsa 27.2 (1994)
New Orleans/Jefferson 27.7 (1995
Chicago 27.8 (1993)
Philadelphia 30.6 (1993)
Houston 31.7 (1993)
Los Angeles (city/county) 32.1 (1993)
Riverside 32.2 (1994)
Montreal 43.3 (1993)
San Antonio 55.6 (1995)