Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals

Adoptions, foster and rescue - To place formerly neglected, abused, or unwanted Animals in forever homes, which includes collaboration with other animal shelters. During 2022, the pspca found homes for over 5,091 Animals and achieved a 97% live release rate. Shelter hospital care - To provide high quality, personalized, and compassionate veterinary treatment and medical rehabilitation of sick and injured Animals in the pspca's care, a significant volume of which enter the shelter through humane law enforcement. During 2022, over 2,200 shelter Animals were treated in the pspca's shelter hospital. Program service accomplishments: behavior and enrichment - To assess incoming Animals, design individual enrichment plans and offer classes providing training and support To adopters and current pet owners To improve pet retention. the pspca operated three facilities during 2022, one in philadelphia (headquarters on erie avenue) and two regional locations (the central pa center in danville (montour county) and the lancaster center.)

Animal law enforcement ("ale") - To prevent animal Cruelty and neglect by enforcing Pennsylvania's anti-cruelty laws. Humane litigation - To oversee the prosecution of Cruelty cases brought by the animal law enforcement team. Nearly 3,700 animal Cruelty complaints were investigated by ale officers during 2022. Humane education - To prevent animal Cruelty and To promote responsible pet ownership by educating children and adults in the community about human treatment of Animals. In 2022, nearly 1,500 youth participated in humane education programs and over 7,200 pets were served through the community outreach program.

Surgical services - To offer affordable and accessible surgical services To the community, including spay/neuter, which helps reduce pet overpopulation. During 2022 the pspca performed over 6,219 spay and neuter surgeries for owned pets and feral cats and over 3,262 spay and neuter surgeries for shelter Animals as a pre-adoption requirement, and over 744 other surgeries for owned and shelter Animals. Public veterinary care - To provide low-cost wellness, preventative, geriatric, and end of life pet care services To the community, including vaccine clinics, micro-chipping, and flea/tick Prevention. the pspca's public veterinary care clinic served nearly 16,000 Animals during 2022.