From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2010:
Animals killed YEAR 1,000s Animals
per 1,000 people of people killed
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Toronto 2.1 2008 2,632 5,526
Calgary 3.1 2008 1,043 2,803
Montreal 7.4 2007 1,621 12,000
Edmonton 6.5 2008 782 5,107
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CANADA (7.5%) 4.2 33,213 139,495
New York City 2.1 2009 8,300 17,080
NEW HAMPSHIRE 2.3 2008 1,316 2,374
Brookhaven (NY) 1.0 2009 500 475
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NORTHEAST (30%) 2.0 33,971 66,430
New Castle/Sussex, DE 1.2 2009 727 880
NEW JERSEY 4.4 2008 8,866 37,673
Pr. George Cty, MD 7.1 2007 841 6,000
Philadelphia 10.5 2008 1,611 15,286
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MID-ATLANTIC (49%) 5.0 24,497 122,120
Broward County 7.3 2008 1,751 12,782
Dekalb County, GA 7.4 2009 737 5,462
Cobb County, GA 8.5 2009 698 5,958
Miami/Dade County 9.1 2009 2,297 21,000
Gwinnette Cty, GA 9.8 2009 776 7,608
VIRGINIA 11.3 2009 7,883 88,730
Palm Beach County 12.8 2009 1,294 16,600
St. Johns Cnty, FL 13.0 2007 169 2,201
Manatee County, FL 13.6 2008 316 4,294
Alachua Cty, FL 14.4 2009 240 3,459
Pinellas Cty, FL 15.9 2008 910 14,500
Tampa region 16.5 2008 1,205 19,837
Lee County, FL 19.1 2007 571 10,907
NORTH CAROLINA 21.7 2008 9,381 203,490
Duval County, FL 23.5 2007 838 19,662
Columbia, SC 23.5 2007 468 11,000
Clayton County, GA 23.4 2009 272 6,257
Charleston, SC 24.1 2007 332 8,000
Clay County, FL 27.3 2007 179 6,542
Robeson Count, NC 34.6 2009 130 4,500
Volusia County, FL 42.3 2007 497 21,000
Clay County, FL 44.7 2007 179 8,000
Macon, GA 46.0 2009 93 4,278
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SO. ATLANTIC (62%) 16.2 50,192 813,110
Montrose, CO 2.5 2009 16 383
Reno/Washoe 3.5 2009 414 1,453
Weld County, CO 6.2 2009 244 1,500
Denver metro area 6.5 2008 2,397 15,570
UTAH 11.9 2009 2,784 35,528
NEVADA 14.4 2009 2,643 38,163
Las Vegas/Clark Cty 14.4 2009 2,000 28,937
Phoenix/Maricopa 14.8 2008 3,955 57,287
Albuquerque 23.8 2007 505 12,029
Tucson 25.3 2008 1,014 25,600
NEW MEXICO 33.7 2007 1,978 66,709
Clovis, NM 48.9 2009 37 1,821
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WEST (68%) 16.0 22,123 353,963 Animals
killed YEAR 1,000s Animals
per 1,000 people of people killed
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Louisville 13.0 2008 722 9,368
Nashville 16.0 2009 626 10,000
Memphis 20.0 2008 671 13,416
Kanawha/Charleston 34.1 2007 192 6,553
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APPALACHIA (46%) 17.8 15,319 272,678
Plano, TX 5.3 2009 268 1,430
Richardson, TX 9.4 2009 102 957
Dallas 11.7 2008 2,346 27,355
Austin/Travis Cty. 11.9 2008 921 10,916
Jefferson Parish 16.9 2008 456 7,720
Shelby County, AL 16.9 2007 178 3,000
Houston 18.4 2007 3,886 71,395
San Antonio 19.6 2008 1,329 26,000
Fort Worth 21.3 2007 682 14,546
Mobile 22.1 2009 406 8,971
El Paso 24.0 2009 751 18,000
MISSISSIPPI 24.8 2007 2,939 73,000
Garland, TX 25.0 2009 226 5,651
ALABAMA 25.7 2007 4,662 120,000
Caddo Parish 26.1 2009 253 6,600
Waco/McLennan Cty. 27.0 2008 230 6,204
Brownsville 28.4 2009 176 5,000
Tuskaloosa, AL 31.1 2009 178 6,019
Baldwin County, AL 34.5 2009 174 5,063
Mesquite, TX 41.6 2009 132 5,488
Amarillo 58.8 2009 187 11,000
Odessa/Ector Cty. 71.4 2008 132 9,423
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GULF COAST (56%) 21.5 37,025 796,038
Parke-Vermillion, IN 1.5 2009 17 25
St. Charles Cty., MO 2.4 2009 349 820
Oakland County, MI 2.6 2009 1,202 3,125
Dane County, WI 3.8 2009 477 1,797
Mason County, MI 3.9 2007 30 116
Duluth 4.0 2009 86 344
Livingston Cty, MI 5.9 2009 183 1,084
St. Louis 5.9 2009 356 2,105
Chicago 6.7 2008 2,851 19,228
Macomb County, MI 7.2 2007 833 6,000
Jefferson Cty., MO 8.5 2009 224 1,900
Porter County, IN 8.7 2007 160 1,384
Dayton/Montgomery 10.1 2009 538 5,431
Kansas City, MO 10.9 2008 452 4,912
Quad Cities, IL-IA 12.7 2009 312 3,944
Sangamon Cty, IL 14.7 2008 195 2,857
St. Clair Cty, MI 15.3 2007 170 2,600
Indianapolis 16.7 2007 866 14,470
Genesee County, MI 18.9 2009 424 8,000
Tulsa 18.9 2009 386 7,303
Oklahoma City 28.0 2007 691 19,365
Shelby County, IN 29.4 2008 44 1,293
River Rouge, MI 129.4 2007 9 1,165
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MIDWEST (18%) 10.1 60,124 607,252
Animals killed YEAR 1,000s Animals
per 1,000 people of people killed
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San Juan Capistrano 1.3 2007 37 48
San Francisco 1.3 2009 815 1,031
Whidbey Islsnd, WA 2.2 2009 60 132
San Diego 4.0 2007 2,942 11,700
Orange County, CA 4.3 2007 3,002 13,000
Los Angeles city 5.1 2009 3,834 19,561
Santa Barbara Cty. 5.3 2008 405 2,136
Portland/Multnomah 6.1 2009 2,049 12,500
Los Angeles total 6.8 2007 9,503 64,457
Los Angeles County 8.5 2007 5,082 43,373
Anchorage 9.1 2007 275 2,490
Clallam County, WA 10.0 2009 71 708
CALIFORNIA 10.9 2008 36,757 400,000
San Bernardino Cty 15.5 2009 2,061 32,000
Long Beach 13.0 2007 469 6,075
Spokane 16.8 2008 463 7,824
Kern/Bakersfield 22.8 2009 824 18,811
Fresno 35.0 2009 942 33,000
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PACIFIC (80%) 10.7 49,445 529,062
U.S. TOTAL 11.6 307,007 3,560,658
(The regional and national totals appearing in bold are not
tallies of the data used to produce them, but are rather estimates
proportionately weighted to reflect demography. The percentage
figure in parenthesis is the percentage of the human population
encompassed within the shelter service areas from which the totals
were derived.)
U.S. progress against shelter killing
1950 2.0 13.5
1970 23.4 115.0
1985 17.8 74.8
1997 4.9 21.1
1998 4.9 19.4
1999 4.5 16.6
2000 4.5 16.8
2001 4.4 15.7
2002 4.2 15.3
2003 4.5 14.8
2004 4.9 17.4
2005 4.4 14.8
2006 4.0 13.6
2007 4.2 13.8
2008 3.6 11.6
More progress for dogs than for cats
(The numbers of dogs and cats killed in U.S. and Canadian
shelters were approximately equal in the mid-1990s.)
Region Cats killed Dogs killed Ratio
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CANADA 114,386 25,109 82/18
Northeast 47,165 19,265 71/29
Mid-Atlantic 86,705 35,415 71/29
So. Atlantic 457,256 357,768 56/44
Appalachia 147,246 125,432 54/46
Gulf Coast 429,861 366,178 54/46
Midwest 376,496 230,756 62/38
West 184,034 169,905 52/48
Pacific 333,309 169,300 63/37
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U.S. TOTAL 2,062,072 1,474,019 57/43
