THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT ANIMAL ABANDONMENT

As taken from Justin Rudd's Haute Dog ENews.

THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT ANIMAL ABANDONMENT
is that it has dramatically decreased since 1973 and only a small portion of the total owned animal population abandoned and/or euthanized. Studies have found 16-24% of reported euthanasia is owner requested. ***shelters include owner-requested euthanasia in their stats; *HSUS figures

1973*

65 million pets

13.5 million euthanized in shelters

21% of the pet population

1982*

92 million pets

8-10 million euthanized in shelters

9%-11% of the pet population

1992*

110 million pets

5-6 million euthanized in shelters

5% of the pet population

2000*

120 million pets

4-6 million euthanized in shelters

3%-5% of the pet population

2001**

141 million pets

4.4 million euthanized in shelters

3.26% of the pet population

2003****(according to Animal People Magazine 2003)

4.2 million euthanized in shelters

Speaking of which....


New Pics of my recent rescues...


Terri who I have been calling Thumper
because she has a cast on her leg...
the shelter splinted the leg...without an xray
to see the xrays go to fghmovie.com link home page
at the top...then click on the 1800saveapet link

All if their info is there... and you could even
fill out an app to adopt!