Age, breed designation, coat color, and coat pattern influenced the length of stay of cats at a no-kill shelter.

摘要: Adoption records from the Tompkins County Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, an open-admission, no-kill shelter in New York State, were examined determine if various physical attributes influenced length stay (LOS) cats and kittens. Similar reports other shelters have not been published. LOS averaged 61.2 days kittens combined ranged less than 1 day 730 days. Based on mixed models that accounted lack independence among attributes, younger, lighter-colored generally adopted more quickly older, darkly colored cats, but yellow-colored had greatest LOS. Coat color did influence patterning breed designation both Male a shorter female kittens, respectively. Studies traditional also demonstrated importance characteristics adopters. Given adopter preferences companion animals with certain characteristics, methods reduce longest potential residences at require continued development.