Why Support Bark and Beauty

Thank you for considering supporting Bark and Beauty benefiting Proud Pups Rescue and Lucky Tales Rescue. We hope the following information will help you realize why our mission to rescue animals is so important to not only the animal but to our community as well.

Key statistics and insights:

• Roughly 6.5 million animals enter shelters each year but only 3.2 million are adopted. 
• 28% of dogs and 31% of cats are adopted out of shelters each year.
• In 2020, people spent $99 billion on their pets. 
• 96% of Americans report a moral duty to protect animals & states should support laws that do so.

Euthanized animal statistics

• On average, 1.5 million shelter animals are euthanized every year in the United States because shelters and rescues are full.
• Shelters around the country euthanize an estimated 670,000 dogs and 860,000 cats each year.
• 93% of pit bulls in shelters are euthanized because of the harmful stereotype they are an aggressive breed. 

Animals in shelters statistics

• Government-supported animal shelters cost Americans almost $2 billion every year.
• Nearly all (about 99%) of all shelter animals are healthy enough to be adopted.
• 60% of adopted pets are no longer in their adoptive homes six months later after their initial adoption, and 20% are returned back to the original shelter.
• Only about 20% out of all 50 states require animal shelters to report any kind of annual adoption data at all.

Animal abandonment and surrender facts

• Homeless animals outnumber homeless people 5 to 1.
• Only 10% of dogs born will find a permanent home.
• 14.1% of dogs are surrendered due to housing issues/ 10.1% of animals surrendered due to owner’s death/ 7.8% of animals are surrendered due to aggressive behavior / 7.2% are surrendered due to the owner’s financial situation

Sources: ASPCA, Humane Society, Rescue Paws Foundation, Spots.com, The No Kill Advocacy Center, Pet Pedia, BestFriends.org, Orvis, Do Something, Top Dogs (Updated March 2023)