Asilomar Animal Statistics

What are the Asilomar Accords?  :

In August 2004, a group of animal welfare industry leaders from across the nation met to build bridges across varying philosophies, develop relationships and create goals focused on significantly reducing the euthanasia of healthy and treatable companion animals in the United States.

The Asilomar Accords outline principles that guide animal welfare organizations to work together to save the lives of all healthy and treatable companion animals.  The document aims to cut through the rhetoric of “no kill” vs. “limited admission” vs. “open admission” shelters and to dispel the murkiness of what defines an adoptable animal.  Shelters haven’t always been clear or consistent when it comes to reporting results. Without the Asilomar Accords, definitions and reporting methods varied from group to group, making understanding of information difficult, if not impossible, across organizations. 

By utilizing a standard language for their statistics, shelters and their supporters are able to easily and clearly track progress both at a specific shelter and across shelters nationwide. 

How do I read the Statistics?
Intake, Adoption, Transfer and Euthanasia statistics are represented in four categories: healthy, treatable/rehabilitatable, treatable/manageable, and unhealthy/untreatable. Definitions of these categories are available at www.asilomaraccords.org/definitions.html.  These clear definitions allow our community to understand the state of the animals when they come into our shelter, and get a picture of disease or illness that they might exhibit at the shelter.

When reading the “Adoption” categories, you might notice a high number of “Treatable/Rehabilitatable and Treatable/Manageable” - this DOES NOT signify their status at time of adoption. The cats and kittens that are available at CAT are healthy at the time of adoption unless otherwise noted.  According to the Maddie’s Funds’ guidelines, we can only downgrade an animal’s condition in our care (from Healthy to Treatable or Treatable to Unhealthy), but not upgrade it once it is healthy again at time of adoption. Maddie’s Fund wants to illustrate where the resources of an animal shelter are being spent. In a no-kill environment such as ours, it exemplifies our lifesaving efforts in rehabilitating a large amount of cats to an adoptable, healthy state. CAT’s mission has always been to save not only the healthy and adoptable cats and kittens but also those that need a little extra help.

CAT Animal Statistics Table
Please click HERE to see the full Animal Statistics Table for 2007

HERE to see the full Animal Statistics Table for 2006

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