Q&A
Long-term shelter residents and adoption challenges
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Council Member Schulman inquires about animals in ACC's care for extended periods and adoption challenges. Risa Weinstock discusses the trends and efforts to find homes for these animals.
- Long-term residents (over 6 months) are primarily large dogs, though they are not numerous.
- The average length of stay for animals is about 14 days.
- ACC uses social media and invites people to the shelter to increase visibility for these animals.
- Adoption challenges include affordability issues and fewer people having the means to adopt currently.
Lynn C. Schulman
0:57:20
How many how many animals have been in ACC's care for over 6 months?
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And are there any trends you might have noticed that may play a role in why certain animals are harder to adopt.
Risa Weinstock
0:57:32
Animals that have been with us for over 6 months are large dogs.
0:57:39
There's not a lot of them, but there's, you know, there's a trend.
0:57:42
Some of the dogs just don't don't get adopted and they stay.
0:57:48
So, you know, it's not the main Our average length of stay right now is about 14 days.
0:57:55
So 6 months is a little bit above is way above the norm.
0:57:59
In terms of how to get visibility on them, we do a lot of social media.
0:58:03
We invite people to come into the shelter.
0:58:05
We ask all of our stakeholders to advocate, to, you know, talk about adoption, to direct people to our care centers, I mean, as I testified, there's no shortage of available animals to adopt and the issues for why they're coming in.
0:58:26
It just seems to outpace how many get adopted.
0:58:30
And the challenges with dogs that are larger or that are longer stays, it I think it's everything I've been testifying to.
0:58:38
It's affordability for the same reasons that they're coming in.
0:58:41
I think people are not as there are not as many people who have the afford have the wherewithal to adopt right now.