Data that purrs

NEW NATIONAL DATA SHOWS PROGRESS TOWARD ACHIEVING NO-KILL BY 2025

If you know Best Friends Animal Society at all, you most likely know that our goal is to work with shelters, rescue groups, community leaders, lawmakers and you to stop the killing of cats and dogs in America’s shelters by 2025.

To do that, we need good data. Accurate data helps us understand what needs to change and where. In July 2019, Best Friends launched the pet lifesaving dashboard (you can see it by going to bestfriends.org/2025) to track statistics from every single shelter in the country. The dashboard makes it easy for members of the public to see local and state information alongside the national statistics.

In collecting and analyzing the 2019 data — released this summer — we identified new changes and trends, which will help us plan our work for the next year. The data isn’t just a bunch of numbers, of course. There’s a nose, and a life, behind every number, and we have big things in the works to save them.

There is so much to be excited about in the new data release. Yes, we’re getting closer to reaching no-kill as a country. And we can all do something to help the country get to that goal by 2025. Speak up to legislators, donate, volunteer, support your local shelter — it all makes a difference. Together, we will Save Them All.