Q2 Analysis, 2023

Shelter Animals Count (SAC) released their Q2 2023 data analysis, comparing animal sheltering data January-June, 2021, 2022, to 2023. 

Summertime can often bring a feeling of chaos for animal welfare workers across the country, as puppies, kittens, and lost and displaced pets continue to inundate already full shelters. Animal organizations continue to struggle with over-capacity status, and urgently need community support.

“As we look back at the second quarter of 2023, one issue stands out to me more than the rest: the continuing decline of animal transfers between organizations,” said Stephanie Filer, Executive Director of Shelter Animals Count. “In Q1, we saw some hope that the bottleneck in transfers may be starting to ease. Unfortunately, that hope was short-lived. Now in Q2, transfers in and out of organizations have hit their lowest point in the past three years. While cat transfers have remained similar to the last two years, dogs continue to be much lower at 14% less than 2022, and 23% less than 2021.”