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Gimme Shelter and a Pound of Advice <br />APPENDIX 4 <br />Orange County Grand Jury Independent City Shelter Survey <br />1. How is the shelter organized and management governance accomplished at your <br />Center? <br />2. How many cats, dogs and other animals can you shelter? <br />3. What services do you provide your local community? <br />4. How many total staff and volunteers are working or engaged with the shelter? <br />5. -How many volunteers do you require on a daily or weekly basis? <br />a. Do you have adequate volunteers? <br />6. Do you promote spay/neuter services to the members of your community? <br />a. If yes, is there a cost to the individual? <br />7. From your perspective what are the challenges faced by your Center? <br />8. Does your center practice TNR (Trap Neuter Return)? <br />- a. If no, was it ever in place and then discontinued - why? <br />b. If yes, how effective is the program? <br />9._ Does your center accept healthy cats and put them up for adoption? <br />a. If yes, please describe the process. <br />10. What are the parameters that guide euthanasia at your shelter? <br />11. Do you have an animal behaviorist on staff? If no, why not? <br />12. Do you have any interaction with the Orange County Animal Shelter? <br />a. If yes, please describe. <br />b. If no, why? <br />13. How is adoption handled in your center? (Adoption by appointment system, open <br />visits, other)? <br />14, Do your adoption totals include totals transferred to rescues or does it apply only to <br />private parties? <br />15. Please. provide statistics (attachment) for your center (intake, adopted, transferred to <br />- ---shelter, euthanized, etc. by animal type for the current and past 3 years). <br />16. How does your center respond to complaints from the community and animal activists? <br />17. ff tracked, please provide statistics on complaints you received. <br />-18.-Please_ provide.intake-statistics (by Cats and Dogs) for the current and 3 past years: <br />a. Strays <br />b. Relinquished by owner <br />c. Owner intended Euthanasia <br />d. Other Intakes <br />19; Please provide live outcomes statistics (by Cats and Dogs) for the current and 3 past <br />years: <br />20. Adoptions <br />a. Return to Owner <br />b. Transferred to another agency <br />c. Returned to Field <br />- - - 21.-Please provide other outcomes statistics (by Cats and Dogs) for the current and 3 past <br />years: <br />a. Died in Care <br />b. Shelter Euthanasia <br />ORANGE COUNTY GRAND JURY 2022 1 2023 PAGE 45 OF 51 <br />