In January 2020, the Pearland Police Department’s Animal Services Divisions, with the support of the Pearland Animal Shelter Advisory Committee, adopted the Asilomar Accords for all future reporting. The Asilomar Accords were established as means to standardize definitions and shelter statistics. This standard set of criteria helps ensure the collecting and reporting of reliable data for the universal comparison of animal shelters and is the most widely accepted criteria for reporting. 

What is a "No-Kill" Shelter? 

While there is no universal definition of “no-kill”, it is commonly meant to mean a 90% live release rate or “save rate”.  Essentially, the benchmark recognizes 10% or less of the animals entering a shelter suffer from irreparable medical or behavioral issues which would compromise the quality of life of the animal or prevent them from being homed.  Given this, the expectation is euthanasia is used only as a last resort.  Most animal welfare organizations support the 90% live release definition of “no kill”.

If you are interested in viewing our statistics, click on the links below. Moving forward we will update these statistics monthly.