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Animal Shelter Count releases 2023 Statistics

Spoilers: It's not good.

-3.2 million dogs entered shelters and rescues in 2023. This was 3.2% higher than 2022, which was 10.2% higher than 2021.

-Dog adoptions in 2023 were 5% lower than in 2019. Cat adoptions were up.

-Non-live outcomes for dogs surpassed the number for cats. 359,000 dogs were euthanized in 2023 vs 330,000 cats.

-A total of 900,000 animals have entered “and lingered” in our nation’s shelters since and rescues since 2021, resulting in “an ongoing capacity crisis.”

-6,010,000 dogs and cats have had live outcomes from animal shelters, This is an increase of 166,000 live outcomes over 2022 and 75,000 more than in 2019

Read the full release (with fun graphs) here:
shelteranimalscount.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Full-Year-2023-Report.pdf