Just looking over that .pdf from the PETA kills animals site. Something with their math just isn't making sense to me.

For 2005 they report on one line that they have, as of January 1, 2005

- 5 cats on hand

- they took in 19 strays

- they had 1,564 owner surrenders

- they had 5,191 "other" (which since it's the largest group of intake animals, seems to me that ought to have to report what "other" actually is)

Okay so those numbers jibe...that's a total of 6,779 cats for year 2005 which is the total number they reported.

Now how in the world does the math work out when on the next area below..."Disposition" clearly states

- Cats - Reclaimed by Owner - 5,193

Now how do over 5,000 cats get reclaimed by owners when owners only surrendered just over 1,564 and only 19 came in as strays which may have been tracked down by their owners????? Let's be honest too, most cats are never tracked down by their owners....they wander off and the owners never find them and a lot are not microchipped. So how do more owners, like over twice as many owners "reclaim" cats that they never "surrendered"????? These cats weren't picked up as strays, they weren't surrendered, or came in from other shelters in VA, they aren't biters or seized for cruelty or neglect????

Where'd those 5,191 "other" cats come from I'd like to know!

Also I noted as of December 31, 2005 they report zero cats on hand. Now that again makes no amount of common sense to me. What shelter/rescue etc. ever "clears the books" just exactly in time for a certain date on a calendar? What the heck, cats suddenly stop becoming homeless by midnight on December 31st?

This report is, when put against my own concepts of what makes sense, total crap and somebody's shuffling numbers obviously and hiding the bulk of the numbers in a vague "other" category.

Though if you compare the link from the anti-PETA site to the link they provide to this PETA reporting, the numbers they quote don't match either.