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As a volunteer Board Member, I am very impressed with the staff's commitment to animal care as evidenced by the 97% live release rate over the past several years. I am extremely proud to be involved with the safest Shelter in the Country.

The Clinic staff includes both medical and animal behavior evaluations so that all animals can be adopted by appropriate Adopters, greatly reducing animal returns to YHS. In addition, staff and volunteers are trained in animal care and handling to minimize animal stress, minimize animal and human injuries and promotes the proper animal/human interaction. Weekly training sessions promote and reinforce proper animal care. New staff and volunteers undergo additional training so that they are rapidly integrated into YHS best practices.

YHS employs an innovative budgeting process to establish each year's budget from the "ground up" so that all revenue and expense streams are fully described and shared with all staff. All staff are strongly encouraged to identify and champion cost saving ideas in all ares of YHS operations and a cost saving sharing policy is in place to reward all staff for these ideas.

Over the past 4+ years, YHS has performed over 16,000 low cost (sometimes free) spay and neuter operations. In the YHS service area, YHS estimates that over 60% of all cats and dogs have been spayed or neutered, greatly reducing the number of stray or unwanted animals. The 16,000 YHS operations represent over one-third of the total spay and neuter operations in the YHS service area.

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