Intake Metrics
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Intake Metrics
Definition: Total animals entering the shelter
Best Practices/Considerations When Using:
– Typically used when looking at shelter-level data
Definition: Total animals entering the shelter minus transfers in from all agencies
Best Practices/Considerations When Using:
– Typically used when aggregating intakes at state/region/national levels to prevent “double-counting” of animals being transferred after initial intake type
– Assumes that animals being transferred were already accounted for in another intake type by another organization also in the dataset
Intake Types
Definition: Stated to be unowned or free-roaming
Definition: Admitted by owner, including adoption returns
Definition: Transferred into the agency’s possession from another entity
Definition: Admission from another agency within the same state
Definition: Admission from another agency in a different state
Definition: Admission from another agency outside of the US
Definition: Pets impounded during cruelty cases or for protective custody. This does not include animals picked up as stray or surrendered by owners.
Definition: Pets born while in care and other types of admission not captured above
Definition: Pets relinquished by owners with the intention to be euthanized. When provided as a service through a clinic outside of intake, it should not be included here.