Best Friends Animal Society No Kill Map
Report Card Shows Areas with Most Lifesaving, and Where Most Pets Are Killed Outlines How People Can Help End the Killing of Pets in Shelters
Best Friends Animal Society has produced a report card to offer a detailed look at progress and areas of focus for the statewide No-Kill Utah (NKUT) initiative.
A coalition of 57 municipal shelters and animal welfare organizations joined together in 2014 to form the NKUT initiative, led by Best Friends Animal Society, to work together with passionate individuals to end thekilling of dogs and cats in Utah shelters, to make Utah a no-kill state by the year 2020.*
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The NKUT Coalition is working to ensure that every shelter and community reaches the threshold 90% save rate individually, rather than averaging all shelters and communities together. When Utah achieves this goal, we will be the second no-kill state in the country by this standard.
This save rate means that at least 90% of the animals entering Utah shelters leave alive, either through adoption, being taken in by another animal group, or being returned to their owners. (The remaining 10%, or less, typically are euthanized for severe, untreatable medical or behavioral issues.)
At the end of 2018, Utah’s save rate stood at just above 85%. There were an estimated 3, 490 pets killed in Utah shelters last year, simply because they didn’t have safe places to call home. While that number may seem daunting, it represents just ten additional families or individuals each day over the next year choosing to save a life by adopting a pet from a shelter or rescue group.
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The public is key to reduce the number of animals killed in shelters. Best Friends through the years has stressed the importance of personal responsibility in multiple areas of pet ownership: adopting from shelters or rescue groups (rather than buying from pet stores, breeders or online retailers), spaying and neutering, microchipping and licensing, fostering or volunteering for a shelter or rescue group, donating and spreading the word as a community advocate.
Because of the decision to raise the bar to make every shelter and community no-kill by 2020, there is far greater focus and urgency in the areas of the state where the most dogs and cats are being killed. With thorough research, Best Friends has identified the counties and specific shelters that have the largest lifesaving gap. While the good news is that 30 shelters in Utah are operating at or above a save rate of 90%, unfortunately, five counties killed 200 or more animals last year, with Utah County showing the largest lifesaving gap of 1, 290 pets killed in 2018.
“Approximately 63% of the pets killed in Utah shelters are felines. For Utah to reach our no-kill goal, we must focus on saving more cats and kittens, ” said LaSalle. “Community cats, aka stray and free-roaming are some of the most at-risk pets in Utah’s shelters.”
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“Utah County has the largest lifesaving gap in the state, ” LaSalle continued, “largely because it is the only county along the Wasatch Front without Return-To-Field (RTF) programs, where shelter clinics spay/neuter, vaccinate and ear tip feral cats that enter shelters as strays, then officers release them back where they were found. This program is one of the most important lifesaving policies for a no-kill community, as the catch-and-kill method of handling community cats has proven over decades to be ineffective. Weber, Davis, and Salt Lake Counties all have successful RTF programs, but Utah County remains the only urban county to not adopt the practice which is becoming the national norm. Best Friends is dedicated to closing that gap and will support Utah Countyin implementing a return to field program with our own funds and staff.”
“Bottom line, since the state passed the Community Cat Act in 2011, cities and counties across the state have been utilizing this method of managing community cats for years to great success, ” LaSalle said. “We have laid out a clear pathway to success in Utah County, and it’s now up to the community to hold elected officials, the special service districts, and shelters accountable to this plan that will save the lives of hundreds of cats in Utah County.”
Best Friends also has demonstrated its commitment to saving lives in Utah County, and has been part of the community for more than a decade, operating a clinic in Orem to providelow-cost spay/neuter and vaccines for Utah County residents.
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Much progress has been made since the original coalition (formerly called the No More Homeless Pets in Utah Coalition) was formed in 2000. At that time nearly 38, 000 healthy and adoptable animals were being killed in Utah every year. Today that number is down to around 3, 500.
In 1999 more than 103 animals were killed in Utah’s shelters every day. Today that has dropped to around 10 per day, a number of lives that is very possible to save with community support. Together, we will make Utah no-kill by 2020.
*The original goal was to make the entire state no-kill by 2019. Rather than averaging the save rates of all shelters and communities together, we’re now working to ensure that every shelter and community reaches the threshold 90% save rate individually. Best Friends also now counts all animals that come into shelters, without excluding categories such as animals whose owners request that they be euthanized, as some of those may be treatable and could be saved. The new method changes Utah’s no-kill goal year to 2020, and it will give even more dogs and cats the second chances they deserve.
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Best Friends Animal Society is a leading national animal welfare organization dedicated to ending the killing of dogs and cats in America's shelters. In addition to running lifesaving programs in partnership with more than 2, 600 animal welfare groups across the country, Best Friends has regional centers in New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Salt Lake City, and operates the nation's largest no-kill sanctuary for companion animals. Founded in 1984, Best Friends is a pioneer in the no-kill movement and has helped reduce the number of animals killed in shelters nationwide from an estimated 17 million per year to about 800, 000. That means there are still nearly 2, 200 dogs and cats killed every day in shelters, just because they don’t have safe places to call home. We are determined to bring the country to no-kill by the year 2025.
Working collaboratively with shelters, rescue groups, other organizations and you, we will end the killing and Save Them All. For more information, visit .Our lifesaving work began with the opening of Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in southern Utah in 1984. From there, the work to save the lives of homeless pets has spread across the country and it continues to expand.
While the Sanctuary remains the heart and soul of Best Friends, we now have lifesaving centers and programs in Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, New York City, Atlanta, Houston, Northwest Arkansas and other areas. In addition, through our national network of partners, lifesaving tactics are being implemented in shelters and rescue groups across the country.
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As recently as 2016, nearly 1.5 million cats and dogs were killed in America just because shelters didn’t have the community support or the resources needed to save them. Best Friends is committed to changing that and to bringing the entire country to no-kill by 2025. Together, we can Save Them All.
Located five miles north of Kanab, Utah, Best Friends Animal Sanctuary is the largest no-kill sanctuary for companion animals in the country. It is a home-between-homes for up to 1, 600 animals on any given day.
In Atlanta, we run a completely foster-based program in our continuing efforts to best serve the metro area in its push to end the killing of dogs and cats in shelters, while strengthening the movement across the entire Southeast.
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Part of our lifesaving work here includes organizing foster and adoption programs, as well as transports to relocate animals to areas of the country where they are more likely to be adopted.
In Los Angeles, we bring together animal rescue groups, city shelters and passionate individuals to save the lives of homeless pets in the city.
Our West Los Angeles location includes a kitten care center and a pet adoption center with adoptable dogs and cats from the L.A. city shelters and regionally in California.
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In New York, we work with city shelters, local animal welfare organizations, passionate advocates and volunteers to save the lives of pets in the city and the surrounding tristate area.
On-site cat and dog adoptions are offered here at the Best Friends Pet Resource Center, along with a pet food and supplies pantry, trap-neuter-vaccinate-return resources and a meeting space for foster caregivers, volunteers and adopters.
In Salt Lake City, we bring together animal rescue groups, city shelters and dedicated individuals working to make Utah a no-kill state.
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Best Friends is working with Navajo Nation Animal Control and the Navajo Nation Veterinary Program, along with spay/neuter and rescue organizations, to save more lives in the Navajo Nation animal control facilities.
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