Greetings:

 I have 20 years' experience with private and public shelters, and have studied management of strays extensively. What I have ultimately concluded is that a shelter can pay lip service to saving animals while euthanising 80 to 90 percent of them, while other, similar shelters, through the use of modern policies and procedures, save that many.

Please include a 50% metric. This is not difficult to achieve in the 21st century, and will help prevent the most egregious mismanagement.

Thank you for your kind attention.

Josie Kinkade