Category: Stray & Feral Animals

Addis Ababa inks s/n pact

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2008:
(Actual publication date 11-5-08.)
ADDIS ABABA Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, home to three million people and as many as 750,000 dogs, on November 4, 2008 agreed to cooperate with the Amsale Gessesse Memorial Foundation, Best Friends Animal Society, and Humane Society International to control the dog population through sterilization instead of poisoning.
The project is to begin on March 1, 2009. The pact was reached after more than a year of negotiation involving half a dozen Ethiopian government agencies, Best Friends cofounder Gregory Castle and rapid response team manager Rich Crook, DVM, and Anteneh Roba, an Ethiopian-born Houston physician who founded the Amsale Gessesse Memorial Foundation to honor his deceased mother and enlisted Best Friends involvement.

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Saving Animals folds but Humane Alliance model s/n program reaches 31 states

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2008:
(Actual publication date 11-5-08.)

HOUSTON The surgical sterilization service provider Saving Animals Across Borders on October 17, 2008 declared bankruptcy. Saving Animals founder Sean Hawkins pioneered many of the methods now used by nonprofit sterilization providers worldwide. The Saving Animals Fix Houston project was to open five surgical sterilization clinics in Houston by mid-2009, but instead closed the only one that did open.
The Saving Animals assets are to be sold to reimburse creditors.
Chapter 7, the type of bankruptcy protection sought by Saving Animals, doesn t allow an entity to reorganize, explained Bill Murphy of the Houston Chronicle. In an e-mail to the Chronicle, Hawkins said, Unfavorable financial conditions have forced Saving Animals Across Borders to cease operations…No further statement will be given.

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Shelters discontinue killing animals for other agencies, gassing, & drop-off cages

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2008:

 

TULSA, CLOVIS, MACON, LAKE CITY, HAYWARD–Beginning a
“new era” in animal care and control, according to Tulsa, Okalahoma
mayor Kathy Taylor, the Tulsa animal shelter on September 8, 2008
quit killing animals for surrounding communities’ animal control
agencies.
“For at least three decades, the city has charged suburbs
$1.00 per animal destroyed at Tulsa’s shelter. Last year, an
estimated 4,000 animals from outside the city were killed in the
shelter’s gas chamber,” recalled Tulsa World staff writer P.J.
Lassek.

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ABC halts, street dog numbers rise in Bangalore

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2008:
BANGALORE–Unpaid by the city in four months, Krupa Loving
Animals, Karuna, and Compassion Unlimited Plus Action have
suspended doing Animal Birth Control program surgeries for Bangalore
municipality, and the Animal Rights Fund will stop on September 1,
2008, Afshan Yasmeen of The Hindu reported on August 15, 2008.
A fifth animal charity, Ahmedabad-based Animal Help, has
sterilized more than 5,000 dogs recently in outlying parts of
Bangalore, demonstrating the efficacy of same-day release of dogs
after surgery, in lieu of the multi-day holding periods for
post-surgical recovery that are practiced by most ABC programs. The
Animal Help approach, abbreviated as CNVR, requires using
high-speed, small-incision surgery under much more strictly aseptic
conditions than is the ABC norm.

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U.S. shelters killed 2.3 million cats & 1.9 million dogs last year. Nearly half of the dogs were pit bulls.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2008:

 
Six of the eight major geographic regions of the U.S. show
continuing declines in shelter killing, but two have gone backward
according to the 15th annual ANIMAL PEOPLE review of recent shelter
exit data.
Newly received data from shelter polls in Ohio and Louisiana,
covering the years 2004 and 2005, respectively, show that the
headline “U.S. shelter killing toll drops to 3.7 million dogs & cats”
above publication of our 2007 analysis was much too optimistic.
The Ohio survey was directed by Ohio State University
graduate student Linda Lord. The Louisiana survey was done by Garo
Alexanian of the Companion Animal Network. Lord et al found that the
Ohio rate of shelter killing was within 1.5 animals per 1,000 of the
2007 ANIMAL PEOPLE projection, but Alexanian found that the ANIMAL
PEOPLE projection for Louisiana was 3.2 animals low. Together, the
Ohio and Louisiana findings pushed a recalculation of the mid-2007
national shelter killing toll up to 4.0 million animals, at a rate
of 13.6 per 1,000 Americans.

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Gains in most regions against cat & dog surplus, but no sudden miracles

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  July/August 2008:



           Animals killed  YEAR  1,000s    Animals
         per 1,000 people       of people  killed
---------------------------------------------------------
New York City        2.0  2007  8,143    16,489
CONNECTICUT          0.6  2007  3,502     2,282
NEW HAMPSHIRE        2.3  2007  1,316     2,696
---------------------------------------------------------
NORTHEAST (39%)      1.6       33,562    54,972

NEW JERSEY           4.4  2007  8,866    38,742
Pr. George Cty, MD   7.1  2007    841     6,000
DELAWARE            15.8  2005    854    13,500
Philadelphia        19.9  2006  1,448    28,774
---------------------------------------------------------
MID-ATLANTIC (40%)   7.8       27,782   217,540


Mission Viejo, CA    1.0  2005    166       113
San Juan Capistrano  1.3  2007     37        48
San Francisco        1.6  2007    744     1,411
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   7.8  2007    682     5,332
OREGON               8.4  2006  3,641    30,528
Los Angeles County   8.5  2007  5,082    43,373
Santa Clara County   8.5  2005  1,668    14,097
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
Lodi, CA            13.9  2005     57       788
Monterey County, CA 14.4  2006    412     5,912
Lindsay/Porterville 14.6  2005     56       817
Visalia, CA         16.4  2006    420     6,896
Santa Cruz Cty, CA  20.0  2005    251     5,000
Kern County, CA     23.3  2006    802    18,669
Spokane             22.1  2006    447     8,991
Stanislaus Cty, CA  23.4  2007    512    12,000
Douglas County      24.0  2005    104     2,519
Valley Oak,  CA     25.4  2005    210     5,336
Bakersfield, CA     26.2  2005    644    16,904
Clovis, CA          28.0  2006     90     2,524
Madera County, CA   35.2  2005    144     5,071
Kings County, CA    27.2  2005    147     4,013
Tulare Cty, CA      40.3  2005    154     6,203
Fresno, CA          40.9  2006    787    32,147
---------------------------------------------------------
PACIFIC (73%)        9.3       48,736   453,340

Broward County       7.3  2006  1,788    13,000
Richmond, VA         7.9  2007    193     1,516
West Palm Beach      9.5  2007  1,351    12,820
VIRGINIA            12.7  2007  7,643    97,011
St. Johns Cnty, FL  13.0  2007    169     2,201
Atlanta area        16.9  2005  5,138    87,000
Alachua Cty, FL     18.2  2006    224     4,071
Orlando/Orange Cty  18.6  2005  1,023    19,000
Lee County, FL      19.1  2007    571    10,907
Tampa area          19.9  2006  2,489    49,557
Buncombe Cnty, NC   21.6  2007    222     4,800
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      25.5  2006  8,856   226,000
York county, SC     37.7  2006    199     7,500
Polk County,  FL    40.3  2005    511    20,566
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
Alamance Cty, NC    42.4  2007    143     6,067
Clay County, FL     44.7  2007    179     8,000
Orangeburg Cty, SC  49.5  2006     91     4,500
Stokes County, NC   60.9  2007     46     2,792
---------------------------------------------------------
SO. ATLANTIC (67%)  19.6       48,976   957,262

Dallas              10.8  2005  2,306    25,000
Dallas/FtWorth rgn  14.2  2005  5,753    82,000
Austin/Travis Cty.  15.2  2007    921    14,000
Shelby County, AL   16.9  2007    178     3,000
Houston             18.4  2007  3,886    71,395
San Antonio         23.1  2006  1,300    30,000
Birmingham          23.8  2005    818    19,438
Fort Worth          24.9  2005    603    15,000
Conroe area, TX     26.8  2006    378    10,120
Baldwin County, AL  28.7  2007    129     3,700
Mobile              30.1  2005    401    12,071
Tuskaloosa, AL      30.1  2006    169     4,982
Gulfport            31.8  2006    194     6,160
Baldwin County, AL  33.3  2006    163     5,432
Blount County, AL   38.6  2006     56     2,153
LOUISIANA           38.6  2005  4,288   157,070
Shreveport/Caddo    48.0  2005    250    12,000
Longview, TX        70.8  2005    114     8,070
Tupelo, MS          55.4  2006     78     4,320
---------------------------------------------------------
GULF COAST (52%)    23.0       35,744   822,598

Mason County, MI     3.9  2007     30       116
Terre Haute          4.6  2005    169       780
Milwaukee            4.8  2005  1,700     8,162
Chicago              6.7  2006  2,833    19,000
Porter Cty, IN       6.8  2007    160     1,081
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
OHIO                14.9  2004 11,467   170,638
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
Independence, MO    29.7  2006    113     3,361
Tulsa               39.2  2006    383    15,000
River Rouge, MI    129.4  2007      9     1,165
---------------------------------------------------------
MIDWEST (41%)       13.0       70,006   910,078

Salt Lake City       6.0  2005  1,016     6,094
Reno                 6.6  2007    396     2,622
COLORADO             9.1  2007  4,753    43,000
UTAH                14.4  2005  2,352    33,854
Phoenix/Maricopa    15.5  2007  3,768    58,531
Cascade County, MT  18.3  2005     79     1,446
Las Vegas/Clark Cty 22.1  2007  1,997    26,500
Albuquerque         23.8  2007    505    12,029
NEW MEXICO          33.7  2007  1,978    66,709
Santa Fe, NM        38.2  2005    130     5,000
---------------------------------------------------------
WEST (72%)          16.0       21,361   341,111

TENNESSEE (prjctd)  25.1  2006  6,039   151,329
Knoxville           29.9  2006    405    12,090
Kanawha/Charleston  34.1  2007    192     6,553
Louisville          42.9  2005    700    30,000
---------------------------------------------------------
APPALACHIA (46%)    27.1       15,045   408,439

U.S. TOTAL          13.8      301,212 4,165,340

	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 regional human 
population encompassed within the shelter service areas from which 
the totals were derived.

 

Fish & Wildlife Service seeks to leghold trap & shoot feral cats

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2008:
VENTURA–“The U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Service is proposing to use padded leg traps and
hunters to eradicate 100 to 200 feral cats now
living on U.S. Navy-owned San Nicolas Island to
protect endangered species,” Ventura County Star
reporter Scott Hadly revealed on June 6, 2008.
“Dogs also would be used to flush out some of the
harder-to-catch cats, according to the plan.
The cats would be shot or given a lethal
injection on the spot,” Hadly wrote.
14,000-acre San Nicholas Island, 60
miles off the California coast, is part of a
U.S. Navy sea test range. The only human
residents are Navy personnel. The Fish &
Wildlife Service contends that the habitat is too
rugged and inaccessible for neuter/return cat
control to be practicable, and that the cats are
much too wild to be tamed for possible adoption.

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