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Shelter Statistics
2023
January 2023: 81.10% Save rateFebruary 2023: 82.67% Save rateMarch 2023: 83.05% Save rateApril 2023: 83.49% Save rateMay 2023: 76.28% Save rate (*State health department recommended euthanasia for 89 birds in May due to contagious disease)June 2023: 62.13% Save rate (*MAS had a Canine Distemper Outbreak in June)
July 2023: 79.01% Save rate
August 2023: 75.68% Save rate
September 2023: 76.53% Save rate
October 2023: 79.79% Save rate
November 2023: 74.44% Save rate
December 2023: 82.43% Save rate
2022
Overall 2022: 86.05% Save rate
January 2022: 90.30% Save rate
February 2022: 87.39% Save rate
March 2022: 84.10% Save rate
April 2022: 84.95% Save rate
May 2022: 82.73% Save rate
June 2022: 82.52% Save rate
July 2022: 87.52% Save Rate
August 2022: 91.62% Save Rate
September 2022: 86.79% Save Rate
October 2022: 87.75% Save Rate
November 2022: 80.47% Save rate
December 2022: 87.55% Save rate
2021
Overall 2021: 88.27% Save rate
2020
Overall 2020: 89.4% Save rate
Effective July 2020, Memphis Animal Services uses the revised* Best Friends/No More Homeless Pets method of reporting data and calculating save rate. The formula used to calculate it is below:
Total intake=X
Total intake minus euthanasia, minus died/lost in shelter=Y
Divide Y/X=save rate
From December 2016 to July 2020, Memphis Animal Services used the previous* Best Friends/No More Homeless Pets method of reporting data and calculating save rate. The formula used to calculate it is below:
Total intake minus owner requested euthanasias=X
Total intake minus owner requested euthanasias minus euthanasia, minus died/lost in
shelter=Y
Divide Y/X=save rate
*In 2020, Best Friends Animal Society revised their formula to include owner-requested euthanasia numbers in an agency’s save rate, whereas they previously had not. For a more in-depth explanation from Best Friends, click here.