The number of animal shelters is slowly decreasing, though
Even though people abandon their beloved pets in a very large number every year, nowadays the rate of animals remaining in the shelter is slowly decreasing. In case you did not know this before, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), 2011 brought with it a rate of 7.2 million animals in shelters, but the nationwide shelters recorded a decrease of about 10 percent.
