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HOSTED BY PEDIGREE FOUNDATION AND SHELTER ANIMALS COUNT

AND MODERATED BY KRISTEN HASSEN OF OUTCOMES FOR PETS

APRIL 19, 2024

Monthly Insights and �Solutions for Shelter Dogs

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April 19: Shelter Safety

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Agenda:

Welcome
The Field Services Database
The role of Capacity for Care
Local trends - what are you experiencing?
How to compare your data to the national dataset

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How did we get here?

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Shelter data history

Chameleon - 1985

Asilomar Accords - 2004

Petpoint - 2005

Shelter Buddy - 2002

Shelter Luv - 2012

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Lack of standard definitions
Variations in intake and outcome types
Systems not built to account for foster placement or services like TNR or RTF
Shelter software systems are not the same
Staff turnover and short-staffing make data entry inconsistent
How we count animals varies among organizations

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What makes animal shelter data so hard?

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Q1 2024

National Data Trends

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Jan-Mar 2024 (compared to Jan-Mar 2023)

Dog INTAKE is a bit lower than last year…

but still close to, 2019 intakes

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Jan-Mar 2024 (compared to Jan-Mar 2023)

Dog NON-LIVE OUTCOMES are higher

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Jan-Mar 2024 (compared to Jan-Mar 2023)

Dog TRANSFERS are lower

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Jan-Mar 2024 (compared to Jan-Mar 2023)

Dog RETURN-TO-OWNERS are lower

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Jan-Mar 2024 (compared to Jan-Mar 2023)

Dog ADOPTIONS are holding steady (as a % of intake)

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Jan-Mar 2024 (compared to Jan-Mar 2023)

Dog DAYS IN CARE are getting longer (PetPoint)

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2019-2024

Q1 OUTCOMES

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And lastly, non-live outcomes for dogs…SAC includes Died in Care, Lost in Care, and Shelter EU as what we report as non-live outcomes. We do not include owner-intended EU since we extract that data and report it as a community service, as intended. The US sheltering systemd to see that increase the following year in 2022 with what we started to share was likely “delayed EU” as shelters filled up again.

started before the pandemic with 9% of every dog entering the shelter leaving through a non-live outcome, dipping as low as 6% in 2021 and then climbing back up to where we now are at 11%, higher than the pre-pandemic baseline, and higher than every year since 2022. You may notice that 2021 had fewer non-live outcomes than 2020. What we heard from our partner shelters is that clearing the shelters in 2020 allowed for more space in 2021 to hold onto animals for longer than they would have been able to in 2019. We starte

Audience question: Does what I’m describing reflect what is happening in your shelters? If not, what is different?

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Dr. Julie Levy

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Dr. Emily Weiss