HUMANE SOCIETY OF BLUE RIDGE

Community Spay/Neuter Program: We continue to offer our Spay/Neuter Incentive program to the local community. In 2021 we provided 685 spay/neuter surgeries.

Improving Turn-rate: In 2021, our average turn-rate was 83 days (89 days for cates, 73 days for dogs), which has been improving YoY, but is far from our goal of 45 days. In 2021, we ramped up our Transport Program by hiring a dedicated Transport Coordinator to locate potential out-of-area rescues that we might transport to and run monthly transports (increasing the number of transports over time). In addition, we amended our protocol for dog intake from 10 days to 24 hours for a surrender with up to date vet records, 3 days for a surrender without up to date vet records, and 5 days for strays (providing that they present well at the end of these periods). That will allow us to move animals more quickly into our General Population and shorten the length of stay in the shelter.

As of July 31, 2022, our turn-rate has drastically improved (31.5 days for dogs and 47.9 days for cats).

Basic Veterinary Care: We were awarded a large capital grant in December, 2021 which will allow us to build a low-cost vet clinic to provide basic vet services as well as spay/neuter surgeries. The clinic will serve members of our community that can demonstrate financial need.

Microchipping: In 2022, we plan to hold quarterly free microchipping clinics in order to help alleviate the number of lost animals that find their way into Animal Control or local shelters by helping to locate their owners.

TNR: We continue to conduct our TNR program to alleviate the feral cat population in the area. In 2021, we TNR'd 597 cats.

Reviewing our protocols for intake will make a huge difference in our shelter turn rate, along with hiring a dedicated Transport Coordinator.

By changing my role from grant writer to Executive Director - Development allowed me to look at all our methods of fundraising and focus on long term strategies for Community Outreach.

Our new Adoption Center Manager, Brandy Arreaga, who started in the role January 31, 2022 has made an amazing positive impact to the Adoption Center and the programs that we offer to the community.

We have closely tracked our KPI's YoY to be sure that we are trending in the right direction. We have recently hired some new talent that will bring new skills to implement and execute more rapidly on our goals.

Intake has increased YoY and our turn-rate has improved as well. We still have a ways to go to reach our desired goals. We have seen a 300% increase in the number of local pets being altered via our Community Spay/Neuter Program. Our TNR program continues to reach approximately 600 feral cats per year.

As of July 31, 2022, our intake has been 525 animals compared to 188 for all of 2021, and 284 adoptions compared to 160 for all of 2021.

We have started a Foster Program and currently have 92 dogs and cats in Foster!