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Highlights

• We shelter and love about 4,000 animals every year; 68% are dogs
  
  
• Because the facility cannot house all the animals in our care, as many as 206 animals can be in foster care on any given day
  
  
• Through resourceful efforts, 97% of our adoptable animals find homes
  
  
• “Driving Doggies” places 54% of our dogs (and a few cats) in Colorado where there is a need for pets
  
  
• Our service area, Rio Arriba County is roughly the size of Connecticut and among the poorest counties in New Mexico
  
  
• It costs approximately $93 to shelter, spay/neuter and place an animal; Rio Arriba County pays $15
  
  
• Our spay/neuter clinic is open four days a week, altering an average of 15 animals a day
  
  
• Over 95% of our 2,800 surgeries are low cost or free