Even though we know it is not true, we often like to think about and talk about the animal shelter director or CEO as being the "top dog" in

People working to assess animal shelters have relied heavily on a simple statistic to measure shelter performance: The Live Release Rate or LRR, which is the percentage of animals that leave the shelter alive, relative to the total outcomes. In an ideal world, computing this number would be simple and straight-forward. Unfortunately, in the strange world of animal sheltering, it is anything but, because there is no standardized way of entering animal records, or consolidating