Impact & Statistics

The Numbers at a Glance:

In 2025, Women's Animal Center provided critical care, shelter, and resources that strengthened families and saved lives across our community:

LIVES TOUCHED:

• 26,543 animals supported through shelter care, veterinary services, spay/neuter and lifesaving surgeries, reunifications, rescue partnerships, trap-neuter-return, and pet food assistance
• 1,979 animals provided safe shelter and care, with an average of 167 animals arriving each month – nearly half as strays
• 1,152 shelter pets adopted into loving homes
• 163 lost animals reunited with their families
• 82 animals supported through rescue partnerships, expanding lifesaving capacity

LIFESAVING CARE - WHEN IT MATTERED MOST:

• 19,725 pets treated in our Veterinary Hospital
  • 14,925 community pets
  • 4,800 shelter pets
• 14,268 vaccines administered to protect pets and public health
• 1,404 life-enhancing or lifesaving surgeries performed
• 2,085 animals spayed or neutered, helping prevent unplanned litters and reduce shelter intake

KEEPING PETS WITH THE FAMILIES WHO LOVE THEM:

• 1,800 families supported through our Pet Food Pantry, helping prevent surrender during financial hardship
• $135,625 in veterinary fees waived or discounted, ensuring access to care when it mattered most

HUMANE SOLUTIONS FOR OUR COMMUNITY:

• 132 cats helped through Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) to humanely manage feral cat populations
• 28 shelter animals placed with rescue partners for specialized care or placement

POWERED BY COMMUNITY:

• 3,462 community members educated through shelter and hospital programs, including 2,121 K-12 students
• 5,398 volunteer hours donated, supporting daily care, outreach, and lifesaving programs

Understanding Animal Statistics:

Women's Animal Center is a managed admissions shelter for cats, dogs and other small domestic companion animals, including rabbits, guinea pigs, mice and birds within the Lower Bucks County, Central Bucks,  and Northeast Philadelphia region. We accept animals surrendered to us from this area regardless of age, breed, behavior or health.

Our goal is to find homes or other placement for all healthy, and medically or behaviorally treatable animals with favorable post-treatment prognoses, and to reserve euthanasia only for those animals suffering terminally or determined to pose a danger to the public. We cannot accomplish this goal without the support and involvement of our community, and we believe that transparency is key to working together towards it.

Transparency begins with the thorough  collection and tracking of data. How this data is interpreted and ultimately reported can be done through different standardized methods - each of which also utilize different measures to arrive at an organization's Live Release Rate or Save Rate. For a more comprehensive overview of our own status and progress, Women's Animal Center is reporting our data below through two of the most commonly used formulas in the industry: The Asilomar Live Release Rate and Best Friends Save Rate.