Hillsborough Animal Death Rates

Hillsborough County Commissioners voted May 1 to move forward with a plan to reduce the number of animal deaths in the county while increasing the “live outcome” rate for both cats and dogs.

Here’s a look at the numbers the prompted the plan’s creation:

• About 20,000 animals a year are brought to Animal Services a year.
• Only an estimated 8,000 make it out alive.
• About 4,100 dogs were euthanized in Hillsborough in 2012.
• Less than 19 percent of the 10,540 cats that went to Animal Services in 2012 made it out alive.
• About 8,555 cats, or 81.1 percent, were either euthanized or considered “dead on arrival,” in 2012

Source: Hillsborough County’s Be the Way Home documentation

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