Orange County Animal Services: 89% of Animals Adopted in 2024

Year-End Report shows over 8,000 pets found new homes

Orange County, FL – Orange County Animal Services (OCAS) published its statistics and released its fourth annual "Year-End Report" today, detailing the data for the 2024 fiscal year, which spanned October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024. The report offers a comprehensive look at the shelter's accomplishments and community support in the past year. Most notably, OCAS achieved a 91% live release rate[1] for dogs and 88% for cats, contributing to an overall live release rate of 89%.

"It's been a challenging year in regard to pet intakes and we've struggled at various points recently with a high number of animals in care," said Diane Summers, Manager for Orange County Animal Services. "But we've also succeeded in helping so many vulnerable animals, and the Year-End Report helps tell those individual stories, and is proof that our staff, volunteers, foster parents, and rescue groups are working hard every day to make miracles happen for these individual pets."

The report includes:

• Shelter Successes:
  • 8,086 pets adopted and 1,234 pets reclaimed by their owners
  • 7,436 spay/neuter surgeries performed
  • 1,775 pets fostered with 179 new foster parents recruited
• Community Support:
  • 402 fosters parents, 330 volunteers and 127 rescue groups actively supporting the homeless pets of Orange County
  • Extensive engagement on social media with more 85,000 followers on Facebook and 76,000 on Instagram
• Overall Data:
  • 14,854 domestic animal impounds
  • 31,483 citizen requests for response handled
  • 66,517 shelter visitors
  • $111,081 awarded in grants to local non-profit organizations

"We're proud to make our data readily available," said Summers. "We want our community to fully understand the scope of our operation and the state of animal welfare in Orange County. This year we will need strong adoption and foster care support, especially for our dogs."

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El índice de liberación de animales con vida es una métrica común de los refugios y se calcula dividiendo el número de resultados vivos por el número total de resultados sin incluir a las mascotas cuyo dueño solicitó la eutanasia humanitaria y los animales que fueron entregados para su eliminación.