Category: Stray & Feral Animals

Shelters in every region are killing fewer dogs & cats –but just barely

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  July/August 2009:


Shelters in every region are killing fewer dogs & cats
--but just barely


         Animals killed    YEAR   1,000s   Animals
         per 1,000 people       of people  killed
------------------------------------------------

New York City        2.0  2008   8,275    16,489
NEW HAMPSHIRE        2.1  2007   1,316     2,737
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NORTHEAST (29%)      1.9        34,444    66,296


TENNESSEE (prjctd)  25.1  2006   6,039   151,329
Knoxville           29.9  2006     405    12,090
Kanawha/Charleston  34.1  2007     192     6,553
------------------------------------------------
APPALACHIA (41%)    25.3        15,144   383,143


NEW JERSEY           4.5  2007   8,682    38,742
Pr. George Cty, MD   7.1  2007     841     6,000
PaSPCA-served sbrbs 18.3  2007     408     7,478
Philadelphia        19.9  2006   1,448    28,774
Camden/Gloucester   21.9  2008      86     1,886
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MID-ATLANTIC (41%)   7.2        27,638   197,546



Broward County       5.9  2007   1,788    10,500
Richmond, VA         7.9  2007     193     1,516
West Palm Beach      9.5  2007   1,351    12,820
VIRGINIA            10.8  2008   7,769    83,907
St. Johns Cnty, FL  13.0  2007     169     2,201
Alachua Cty, FL     15.4  2008     240     3,695
Lee County, FL      19.1  2007     571    10,907
Tampa area          19.9  2006   2,489    49,557
Duval County, FL    23.5  2007     838    19,662
Columbia, SC        23.5  2007     468    11,000
Charleston, SC      24.1  2007     332     8,000
NORTH CAROLINA      24.7  2007   8,856   218,350
Clay County, FL     27.3  2007     179     6,542
York county, SC     37.7  2006     199     7,500
Rome/Floyd Cty, GA  42.3  2006      95     4,034
Macon, GA           42.3  2007      94     3,970
Volusia County, FL  42.3  2007     497    21,000
Clay County, FL     44.7  2007     179     8,000
Orangeburg Cty, SC  49.5  2006      91     4,500
------------------------------------------------
SO. ATLANTIC (59%)  18.6        44,716   826,544


San Juan Capistrano  1.3  2007      37        48
San Francisco        1.3  2008     809     1,031
Huntington Beach     2.5  2006     194       485
Los Angeles city     3.7  2007   4,018    15,009
Orange County, CA    4.3  2007   3,002    13,000
San Diego            4.0  2007   2,942    11,700
WASHINGTON           6.6  2006   6,132    40,722
Los Angeles total    6.8  2007   9,503    64,457
Tehama County, CA    6.8  2006      62       421
Portland/Multnomah   6.7  2008     715     4,795
OREGON               8.4  2006   3,641    30,528
Los Angeles County   8.5  2007   5,082    43,373
Anchorage            9.1  2007     275     2,490
San Bernardino Cty  11.3  2007   2,028    22,900
Merced Cty, CA      12.2  2006     246     3,011
Long Beach          13.0  2007     469     6,075
Monterey County, CA 14.4  2006     412     5,912
Visalia, CA         16.4  2006     420     6,896
Spokane             16.8  2008     463     7,824
Kern County, CA     23.3  2006     802    18,669
Stanislaus Cty, CA  23.4  2007     512    12,000
Fresno, CA          40.9  2006     787    32,147
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PACIFIC (72%)        8.5        49,070   417,095


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
Houston             18.4  2007   3,886    71,395
San Antonio         19.6  2008   1,329    26,000
LOUISIANA           20.1  2006   4,410    92,000
Fort Worth          21.3  2007     682    14,546
MISSISSIPPI         24.8  2007   2,939    73,000
ALABAMA             25.7  2007   4,662   120,000
Conroe area, TX     26.8  2006     378    10,120
Waco/McLennan Cty.  27.0  2008     230     6,204
Mobile              31.0  2008     404    12,516
Tuskaloosa, AL      31.1  2008     178     5,536
Baldwin County, AL  32.9  2008     172     5,664
Odessa/Ector Cty.   71.4  2008     132     9,423
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GULF COAST (58%)    21.0        36,338   763,098


Reno                 5.4  2008     406     2,186
COLORADO             9.1  2007   4,753    43,000
UTAH                11.9  2007   2,700    32,000
Phoenix/Maricopa    14.8  2008   3,880    57,287
Las Vegas/Clark Cty 22.1  2007   1,997    26,500
Albuquerque         23.8  2007     505    12,029
Tucson              25.3  2008   1,014    25,600
Fallon/Lyon Cty, NV 29.6  2007      43     1,272
NEW MEXICO          33.7  2007   1,978    66,709
------------------------------------------------
WEST (88%)          15.2        19,048   289,530


Mason County, MI     3.9  2007      30       116
Chicago              6.7  2006   2,833    19,000
Porter County, IN    8.7  2007     160     1,384
Macomb County, MI    7.2  2007     833     6,000
Oakland County, MI   8.2  2006   1,214    10,000
MICHIGAN            11.7  2006  10,096   117,919
Sangamon Cty, IL    14.4  2007     194     2,800
Columbus/Frnkln Cty 14.6  2006   1,096    16,000
St. Clair Cty, MI   15.3  2007     170     2,600
Indianapolis        16.7  2007     866    14,470
Oklahoma City       28.0  2007     691    19,365
Shelby County, IN   29.4  2008      44     1,293
Independence, MO    29.7  2006     113     3,361
Tulsa               39.2  2006     383    15,000
------------------------------------------------
MIDWEST (24%)       12.8        70,204   898,611


U.S. TOTAL          13.5     3,079,939 4,157,918


	(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.)

 

State data, 2000-2009

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  July/August 2009:


State data,  2000-2009

State  Dogs & cats
        killed/year  Rate

  AL     119,021     25.5
  AK       9,643     14.0
  AZ     123,540     19.0
  AR      33,975     11.9
  CA     433,733     11.8
  CO      43,000      9.1
  CT       2,101      0.6
  DE      13,793     15.8
  FL     278,586     15.2
  GA     190,814     19.7
  HI      22,797     17.7
  ID      27,584     18.1
  IL     134,470     10.4
  IN     138,870     21.8
  IA      49,850     16.6
  KS      48,477     17.3
  KY     183,054     42.9
  LA      92,000     20.9
  ME       8,297      6.3
  MD      49,016      8.7
  MA      38,338      5.9
  MI     117,035     11.7
  MN      93,438     17.9
  MS     124,205     42.4
  MO     102,958     17.4
  MT      11,279     11.7
  NE      22,280     15.3
  NV      32,011     12.3
  NH       3,027      2.3
  NJ      38,205      4.4
  NM      66,861     33.7
  NY      58,470      3.0
  NC     227,783     24.7
  ND      11,171     17.4
  OH     171,141     14.9
  OK     114,276     31.3
  OR      31,836      8.4
  PA     200,785     16.1
  RI       6,930      6.6
  SC     127,413     28.4
  SD      18,170     22.6
  TN     155,997     25.1
  TX     469,849     19.3
  UT      32,558     11.9
  VT       4,968      8.0
  VA      98,666     12.7
  WA      43,223      6.6
  WV      61,892     34.1
  WI      27,010      4.8
  WY       8,195     15.4

ALL   4,528,700     15.1

Editorial: Keeping shelters open when money & time are tight

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2009:

The good economic news from the nonprofit
information-tracking web site Guidestar is that only 52% of U.S.
charities reported declining donations during the winter of
2008-2009. This was no worse than the rate of decline during the
preceding summer.
Animal charities appear to have enjoyed less severe declines
than those serving other sectors, but since animal charities raise
only about 1% of total contributions to charity in the U.S., even
moderate losses hurt.
Economic analysts now predict that we may have reached a
turnaround. Yet even in the most hopeful scenario, fall and winter
budgets must be planned conservatively. If more money arrives than
is expected, more can be done, but meanwhile it is prudent to avoid
becoming over-extended. If we are not yet coming out of the
recession of the past two years, the recent stresses on animal
shelters will only get worse.

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Animal Birth Control gains speed

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2009:
CHENNAI, DELHI, MUMBAI –Indian minister of state for
environment and forests Jairam Ramesh served notice in July and
August 2009 speaking appearances that he means to put wheels under
the Indian national Animal Birth Control program.
Now Chinny Krishna, who engin-eered the ABC program, needs
to put new wheels under the Blue Cross of India surgical team to keep
up with increasing demands for service. “We have been inundated with
requests from municipalities asking us to undertake ABC,” Krishna
told ANIMAL PEOPLE. “In addition to the cost of doing more
operations, we are handicapped for want of enough vehicles, since
all these new areas are some distance from Chennai,” where the Blue
Cross of India is based.

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Castaway dogs trouble Malaysian conscience

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2009:
PULAU KETAM, Malaysia– Striving to rescue more than 150
dogs who survived being deliberately marooned on a remote swampy
island in the Straits of Malacca, the Malaysian animal charities
Furry Friends Farm, Selangor SPCA, and Save A Stray had among them
caught just a few dozen in a month of effort as ANIMAL PEOPLE went to
press–but they had stimulated awareness of surgically sterilizing
dogs wherever television, radio, and online media reach in the
Malay language, including Singa-pore and Indonesia as well as
Malaysia.
The Pulau Ketam dog rescue showed promise of expanding into
the beginnings of a regional Animal Birth Control program, modeled
after ABC successes in India. Malaysian Department of Veterinary
Services director general Abd Aziz Jamaluddin told Lestor Kong of The
Star that the department will send 10 veterinarians to Palau Ketam to
sterilize dogs on June 27-28.

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Dog bite prevention weak

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2009:

ALBANY, CHICAGO, DENVER,
INDIANAPOLIS, NEW YORK CITY, WASHINGTON
D.C.–Dog Bite Prevention Week 2009 opened with
opponents of breed-specific legislation claiming
victories in Indianapolis and Highland Park, a
Chicago suburb, but closed with a 13-page
verdict against pit bull terrier advocates in
Loudoun County, Virginia.
The Indianapolis city/county council on
May 12, 2009 voted to table an At Risk Dogs bill
introduced by councillor Mike Speedy. The bill
will not be discussed again until after a new
community budget is approved, probably not
before October, Speedy told ANIMAL PEOPLE. But
Speedy vowed that the At Risk Dogs proposal will
be brought back at the first opportunity.
The At Risk Dogs proposal would have
required that pit bull terriers be sterilized,
in a community where more than 30% of the dogs
arriving at shelters are pit bulls. It
paralleled legislation in effect in San Francisco
since January 2006, credited with achieving a
23% reduction in shelter intakes of pit bulls,
and a 33% reduction in the number of pit bulls
killed by animal control in only two years,
after more than a decade of non-mandatory
programs made little difference. Similar
ordinances are in effect in smaller cities in at
least 10 states. Yet another took effect on
April 16, 2009 in Moses Lake, Washington.
The Highland Park city council on May 14,
2009 deferred until after a June 22 public
workshop any further action on a pit bull ban
proposed by mayor Michael Belsky after a newly
acquired pit bull belonging to a 17-year-old boy
inflicted severe facial bites on a 14-year-old
girl.

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Marooned dogs’ howls echo in Turkey

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2009:
Marooning the dogs of Palau Ketam had two notorious
precedents near Istanbul, Turkey, recalled by Companion Animal
Network founder Garo Alexanian in the November/ December 2008 edition
of ANIMAL PEOPLE.
The first marooning off Istan-bul occurred at some point
prior to 1869, when Mark Twain described it in The Innocents Abroad,
along with “the howl of horror” from citizens that stopped the
practice.
The second marooning came in 1910. “This act so disturbed
the modern Turkish republic,” Alexanian wrote, “that newspaper
columnists have attributed difficult economic times in Turkey to the
curse of Turks having done it.”

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