More U.S. animal shelter data by city, county, state, and region
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2007:
The printed edition of the table “U.S. animal shelter data
broken down by city, county, state, and region” published on page
19 of the July/August 2007 edition of ANIMAL PEOPLE inadvertently
omitted the portions covering the interior western states, the state
of Delaware, and Huntington Beach, California, and omitted a
decimal place in stating the rate of shelter killing per 1,000 humans
residents of Santa Cruz, California. The missing data, below, was
taken into account in producing the ANIMAL PEOPLE estimate that a low
for the past half century of 3.7 million animals were killed in U.S.
shelters in 2006, and was included in the electronic edition of
ANIMAL PEOPLE.
Animals killed YEAR 1,000s Animals
per 1,000 people of people killed
DELAWARE 15.8 2005 854 13,500
Huntington Beach 2.5 2006 194 485
Santa Cruz Cty, CA 20.0 2005 251 5,000
Salt Lake City 6.0 2005 1,016 6,094
Weld County, CO 8.5 2005 211 1,800
Larimer Count, CO 11.6 2005 267 3,093
Billings 14.6 2004 133 1,941
UTAH 14.4 2005 2,352 33,854
Phoenix/Maricopa 15.5 2007 3,768 58,531
Albuquerque 26.9 2004 581 15,600
Santa Fe, NM 38.2 2005 130 5,000
WEST (41%) 17.3 17,721 306,573