← on nowLGR-018 · v0.1.0 · model · estimate How many cats and dogs are killed every second, every day, every year?
cats and dogs · in shelters · united states only, until the country layer
killed because nobody came
920,000
a year
0.029
a second
2,519
a day
taken in
6.3 million
a year
0.200
a second
17,248
a day
method ASPCA / Shelter Animals Count: dogs and cats killed in US shelters per year, and intake.
- it was thirteen to twenty million a year in the 1970s. spay and neuter did most of it.source: HSUS; ASPCA; Shelter Animals Count
- most are healthy. they die of a lack of room, and of someone.source: ASPCA
live. this is the channel itself. embed it anywhere:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?channel=cats%20and%20dogs" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · cats and dogs"></iframe>
or the whole broadcast, every channel, the same for everyone:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?embed=1" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · on now, everywhere"></iframe>
how this number is built
- method
- ASPCA / Shelter Animals Count: dogs and cats killed in US shelters per year, and intake.
- range
- killed 0.7–1.0 million/yr; intake 5.5–6.5 million/yr
- confidence
- estimate
- weakness
- united states only; the site says so in the label. no global series exists.
- dispute
- dispute LGR-018 · corrections are credited
- data
- channels.json (sign-in) · full entry · CC BY 4.0