|  Maddie's Adoption Guarantee Coalition
Albuquerque's Maddie's Adoption Guarantee Coalition (MAGC), a Bernalillo County, New Mexico-based coalition, has received the first grant in a potential series of grants from Maddie's Fund. In December 2010 Animal Humane | New Mexico, Albuquerque's Animal Welfare Department, EnchantMutts, NMAF and PACA formed a coalition to begin the first phase of the grant series.
MAGC has been awarded a $30,000 Data Collection Grant to be paid to Animal Humane | New Mexico for distribution to coalition members. This grant is to support efforts to collect and publish data concerning the number of dogs and cats impounded, adopted and euthanized annually by Bernalillo County's animal shelters and animal rescue groups. The coalition members will supply data from 2011-2013.
The collection and publication of this data is sponsored by Maddie’s Fund, www.maddiesfund.org
Animal Humane | New Mexico is in the process of submitting an application for the next grant phase, the Pet Evaluation Matrix. Animal Humane | New Mexico will be conducting surveys with our community's dog and cat owners and veterinary practices. The goal is to obtain information from the community on which medical and behavioral conditions it would consider as "healthy"," treatable", and "unhealthy and untreatable." For example, in our community, if a cat has cancer that would cost over $5,000 to treat, would the majority of owners and veterinarians consider this "treatable" or so expensive that it would be considered "unhealthy and untreatable". These classifications would then be used by the sheltering community to classify outcomes of the pets that are euthanized. The classifications would not prohibit a shelter from euthanizing the cat if it lacked the resources to treat it even if the community had deemed it "treatable." The purpose of using these community-based classifications is to determine if more funding and resources are needed to meet the community's expectations of care by its shelters.
Bernalilllo County Statistics 2010
Bernalillo County Statistics 2009 |
