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TheShelterPets is a page used to help spread information about animals in shelters. Every week, we will have a new video focusing on a shelter and the pets in that shelter. If you would like to send in videos from your local shelter of pets, or send me some information about a shelter near you, it would be greatly appreciated. Hopefully, we will help to decrease the number of shelter pets. If you like, make a video response to a video about your own pets that were adopted from shelters, or came from a bad situation. This is also a channel to help inform people about animal cruelty and laws of it.
Our moto:
~Don't breed or buy while homeless pets die~
Also, I will include some statistics below:
Accurate record keeping is impossible at this time, due to the sheer number of animals handled and emergency shelters opening and closing daily. However, based on the only known statistics that the American Humane Society has recognized to date, the 1997
National Counsel On Pet Population And Study, of the 1,000 shelters that replied to the National Council's survey, 4.3 million animals were handled. In 1997 roughly 64% of the total number of animals that entered shelters were euthanized - approximately 2.7 million animals in just these 1,000 shelters. These animals may have been put down due to overcrowding, but may have been sick, aggressive, injured, or suffered something else. A staggering 56% of dogs and 71% of cats that enter animal shelters are euthanized. More cats are euthanized than dogs because they are more likely to enter a shelter without any owner identification. Only 15% of dogs and 2% of cats that enter animal shelters are reunited with their owners. Only 25% of dogs and 24% of cats that enter animal shelters are adopted. It is widely accepted that 9.6 million animals are euthanized annually in the United States.
Why do so many animals wind up in shelters? The reasons given by the owners who relinquish their pets voluntarily to shelters are numerous. Some animals are captured by Animal Control Officers, and some animals are brought in by concerned citizens whove found them wandering the streets and neighborhoods. Another contributing factor to this staggering number of animals that face euthanasia every day in this country is owners sometimes fail to spay and neuter their pets. The pet reproduces, and the owner simply has no desire or room for more animals.
The top 10 reasons owners have given for voluntarily relinquishing their pets are:
Moving
Landlord issues
Cost of pet maintenance
No time for pet
Inadequate facilities
Too many pets in home
Pet illness (es)
Personal problems
Biting
No homes for littermates
Age
17
Country
United States
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