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Event #52 Details
Event # 52
Butte, Montana
Dan Truckle Pet Care Days
August 2 - 4, 2003
Three day event
8 veterinarians: Dr. Mark Francis, Dr. Dave Weinandy,
Dr. Terry Yunker, Dr. Diana Scollard, Dr. Kristin Hollemans, Dr.
Kim Knock, Dr. Jefferey Young, and Dr. Judy Anderson.
Total Dogs 283 (151 male, 132 female)
Total Cats 431 (163 male, 268 female)
Total Rabbits 3
Grand Total 717
Waiting List: over 100
Veterinarians for day 1: Terry Yunker, Dave Weinandy,
Diana Scollard, Mark Francis, Kristin Hollemans, Kim Knock, Jeffrey
Young
Day 1
Dogs 32 male 29 female Total 61
Cats 48 male 69 female Total 117
Rabbit: 1 female
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Day 1Total 179
Veterinarians for day 2: Terry Yunker, Dave Weinandy,
Diana Scollard, Mark Francis, Kristin Hollemans, Kim Knock, Jeffrey
Young
Day 2
Dog 67 male 49 female Total 116
Cats 40 male 78 female Total 118
Rabbit: 1 male
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Day 2 Total 235
Veterinarians for day 3: Terry Yunker, Dave Weinandy,
Diana Scollard, Mark Francis, Kristin Hollemans, Kim Knock, Jeffrey
Young, Judy Anderson, 1⁄2 day
Day 3
Dogs 52 male 54 female Total 106
Cats 75 male121 female Total 196
Rabbit: 1 female
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Day Total 303
Waiting list left over 100.
Not all owners answered all questions..
Litters past/present 84 (from 1 to 6 litters)
(Over 21 of females were pregnant or in heat)
Animals whose Owners never sp/n before 372, 52%
Sources: Home Bred 101, Originally stray 92, Given327,
Bought 60, Shelter 19 + Beaverhead Humane 60 +, No Answer 118
Ages: 1-4 mos. 155; 5-7 mos 90; 8 mos. - 1 yr 49;
1-3 yrs 199, 3-5 yrs 59, 6 yrs and older 34, 2 weeks 16, 6 days
7,
Unknown age 108
ORIGIN BY TOWN
Anaconda 32
Basin 4
Boulder 7
Butte 530
Cardwell 2
Centerville 1
Deer Lodge 9
Dillon 64
Divide 5
Frenchtown 1
Melrose 3
Opportunity 5
Phillipsburg 5
Ramsey 3
Silver Star 3
Twin Bridges 1
Walkerville 11
Whitehall 26
Wyse River 4
No Answer 1
2004 visits to Anaconda and
Butte
Updated August 18th, 2004
We just returned from a 5 days on the road! "Pintler
Wilderness Pet Care Week", a two day clinic in Anaconda, and
"Dan Truckle Pet Care Days", a 3 day clinic in Butte.
The Butte event was in memory of Dan Truckle, a great animal provider
who helped trap cats at the "Montana State Prison Feral Cat
Day", and at the "Montana State Hospital Feral Cat Day".
Final count: 126 dogs fixed and 269 cats fixed in Anaconda, and
283 dogs, 431 cats, and 3 rabbits fixed in Butte.
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| This is Muggsie, our Butte
Poster Child. Muggsie waited for "Dan Truckle Pet Care
Days" a long time -
EIGHT YEARS!!
Sixty-seven percent of the animals in Anaconda and fifty-two
percent of the animals in Butte had owners who had never
had an animal fixed before. These percentages of owners not
experienced with spay and neuter for pets is the highest that
the Montana Spay / Neuter Task Force has ever seen in 52 visits
throughout Montana since November, 1996. These visits include
all seven Native American nations in the state. These impressive
numbers show how great the need is. |
Debi Herman, who came from "No
More Homeless Pets" in Kansas City, Missouri to
volunteer and learn for her local city-wide coalition for spay /
neuter, observed that the event was "awesome".
"The Task Force has created one amazing machine
of effectiveness" she said, noting that she would never have
imagined so many community volunteers would be willing to stay and
help out with their kitties, and be so capable of a variety of other
tasks as well.
Done with the Task Force approach, "Spay / neuter
is not just a 'procedure' but a meaningful experience", Herman
concluded.
Here are some photos taken during the Anaconda and
Butte events....
BUTTE SILVER BOW ANIMAL SHELTER IMPACT STATISTICS
FOLLOWING MONTANA SPAY/NEUTER TASK FORCE VISIT AUGUST
2-4, 2004
and ONE PHASE II EVENT
May 31, 2005
In 2004, the Animal Shelter for Butte Silver Bow changed. The way
statistics were kept also changed. Prior to 2004, we were unable
to record the number of animals impounded. However, the number of
animals handled was recorded for the years 2000 to 2003. The number
of animals destroyed were recorded both before and after the change
of shelter. The large differences in the animals destroyed (put-to-sleep)
in 2004 as compared to the previous years (2000 - 2003) by a different
shelter indicates a markedly different policy toward handling animals.
Consequently, the impact statistics are quite limited and not very
reliable
In general, it seems that in the year 2004 the Pintler Pets Animal
Shelter and Butte Silver Bow Animal Control handled more animals
than did the Chelsea Bailey Animal Shelter plus Butte Silver Bow
Animal Control in each of the four previous years (almost doubled
the number). Most of the animals handled before 2004 were in the
number of animals destroyed.
In 2004 the number of animals destroyed was 75 dogs and l5 cats,
90 animals total. The number of animals destroyed in each of the
previous four years varied from 876 in 2000 to 1,037 in 2003, averaging
948 1⁄2 animals destroyed each year. The Pintler Pets destroyed
less than 10 percent of the total number of animals destroyed by
the Chelsea Bailey Shelter.
On August 2, 2004 to August 4, 2004, the Montana Spay/Neuter Task
Force during the Butte Silver Bow Pet Care Event sterilized 717
dogs and cats in Butte and 106 dogs and cats one month later during
a Phase II Task Force event. No intake statistics are provided and
we cannot account for seasonal variations in intake or for the marked
variation in statistical data. If we look at the number of animals
impounded by the Butte Silver Bow Animal Control for 2004 (the only
year reported - Chelsea Bailey did not provide 2004 statistics from
its shelter), there is no consistency in the data. Differences before
and after the two clinics show no impact for the two Task Force
clinics. Canines show a drop in the number impounded after the main
Task Force clinic, but felines show the reverse trend. However,
the inconsistency in how the data was recorded and the differences
in the system of recording make it impossible to assess the impact
of the Task Force clinics.
The data for the number of animals destroyed is more reliable. However,
the small number of animals destroyed in 2004 compared to the large
number destroyed before 2003 makes it hard to get significant and
reliable results. Both one and two months after the first Task Force
clinic, there was a significant drop in the number of animals destroyed.
It can be clearly seen that the change in the animal shelters contracting
with Butte Silver Bow produces changes in policy and in how statistics
are kept. One of the most important measures of effectiveness both
in terms of cost effectiveness and in the impact of any major events,
is the number of animals taken into the shelter and the number of
animals impounded by animal control.
What has happened in Butte Silver Bow is a change in approach to
the euthanasia of cats and dogs, resulting in a marked decrease
in animals destroyed. For the comparison of data over time, a more
uniform and meaningful system of data collection is needed.
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