What affects us affects cats
The infographic spells out the numbers and they come from reliable sources but I am almost compelled to conclude that they are misleading. If not something dramatically good has happened for shelter cats in the USA. Perhaps shelter management are taking up Nathan Winograd’s advice in greater numbers. He has been pressing the shelters …
It’s an extraordinary twist of fate; Covid has saved the lives of about 4 million companion animals in the USA. This is because of soaring adoptions during the pandemic. The information relates to 2020 so it’s a bit out of date and I can’t find current figures. I would expect the current figures to …
Why is the suicide rate among animal shelter staff relatively high? Is it because of the kind of person working at shelters or the work they do, or both? Are they paid enough? One of the pages on this website did very well. It received thousands of hits and Facebook ‘Likes’. It is a …
Based upon a survey in October 20112, the following information was acquired, some of which is quite surprising. Obviously “pet” includes most typically cats and dogs so we cannot say this information relates to cats only but it provides good indications. Place of Adoption 14% of people purchased their pet from a pet store. …
Below are some animal shelter statistics from the Statistic Brain website. The source of the information is Born Free U.S.A., American Humane Society and Pet Finder according to the author. I’d just like to mention one thing that came to my mind when looking at these statistics. The Humane Society of Ottawa County have …
Caveat: I know animal rescue saves lives but… I am always shocked that in the USA even the experts have to guess the number of cats and dogs that are “euthanised” each year. The figure is somewhere between 2 and 5 million cats a year as far as I can tell. But I don’t …
