ANNUAL REPORT

2021
A MESSAGE
FROM MATT
Friends,

Even as the pandemic continued from scenes of large-scale diligently in direct care and
to challenge people and animals cruelty and natural disasters, critical support roles to achieve
in 2021, those obstacles relocating more than 34,000 these successes—often with
strengthened our resolve to animals to areas of great strategic partners—and they
persevere, adapt, and—in some adoption opportunity, spaying have my deepest appreciation.
cases—evolve our work to save and neutering more than 63,000
and protect the most vulnerable animals across the country, If the stories, data, and details
dogs, cats, horses, and farm addressing pet owner toxicity in this report inspire you to
animals. concerns involving more than come to the rescue of an animal
400,000 animals, and assisting or shelter in need, thank you.
We also implemented more ways more than 58,000 animals with Animals in need deserve all the
to expand animal protections, basic and preventative care help we can provide.
including innovations in animal at our service facilities in New
cruelty and disaster response, York, Los Angeles, and Miami,
law enforcement and shelter including a new Community Thank you for your support,
training, and the sharing of Veterinary Clinic in Brooklyn,
research and insight. New York.

As you’ll read in this 2021 Leveraging data, expertise,

Annual Report, our work strategy, and creativity, more
throughout the year included than 1,000 ASPCA staffers Matt Bershadker,
rescuing thousands of animals across the country worked President & CEO

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Mission Statement
Our mission, as stated by ASPCA founder Henry Bergh in
1866, is “to provide effective means for the prevention of
cruelty to animals throughout the United States.”

WE ARE THEIR VOICE

Founded in 1866, the ASPCA® (The
American Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals®) was the first
animal welfare organization established
in North America and today serves as
one of the nation’s leading voices for
vulnerable and victimized animals. As
a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation
with more than two million supporters
nationwide, the ASPCA is committed
to preventing cruelty to dogs, cats,
equines, and farm animals throughout
the United States.

The ASPCA assists animals in need

through direct medical care, on-
the-ground disaster and cruelty
interventions, behavioral rehabilitation,
animal placement, legal and legislative
advocacy, and the advancement of the
sheltering and veterinary community
through research, training, and
resources.

For more information, visit aspca.org

and follow the ASPCA on Facebook,
Twitter, and Instagram.

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RESCUING AND BRINGING CARE
TO ANIMALS IN CRISIS
The ASPCA routinely responds to requests from law enforcement, emergency management
authorities, and animal welfare agencies to assist with emergencies that threaten the lives and
welfare of animals across the country. These emergencies include natural disasters—such as
hurricanes and wildfires—and large-scale cases of animal cruelty or severe neglect.

We support these animals and communities with a wide range of responsive actions and services,
including land and water rescue operations, emergency sheltering, relocation services, and
medical and behavioral treatment. ASPCA experts also conduct evidence collection and forensics
exams to provide investigative support in criminal cases to ensure the best legal outcomes for
rescued animals.

In 2021, the ASPCA helped

nearly 3,000 animals in crisis
across the country. These
animals included:
More than 60 dogs from a hoarding
situation in North Carolina, where
animals of varying breeds, sizes,
and ages were found inside a shack
filled with mud and animal waste

More than 500 dogs living in

horrific conditions at multiple Iowa
properties

More than 80 dogs from a brutal

dogfighting operation spanning New
York and several other states

Nearly 100 neglected dogs found

on a dilapidated property in Ohio,
some of whom had severe untreated
medical conditions

More than 20 animals living in filthy,

unsafe conditions in Missouri

Nearly 30 dogs living in

overcrowded and substandard
conditions at a property in Alabama

More than 2,000 animals More than 350 homeless rescued animals were transported to our ASPCA Cruelty
endangered by natural disasters Recovery Center (CRC) in Ohio, where they received daily care, enrichment,
in Kentucky, Louisiana, and and medical and behavioral treatment that prepared them for adoption. Treating
Washington animals at the CRC also allows local shelters to focus their lifesaving work, space,
and resources on other community animals in need.

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Giving Vulnerable and Victimized Animals
SECOND CHANCES THROUGH
BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION
More and more animals are entering shelters with medical problems,
behavior problems, or both. Without treatment, adoption isn’t possible
for many of these animals, which is why the ASPCA is leading efforts to
develop effective behavior interventions for dogs and cats in our care. Our
work includes establishing facilities that provide rehabilitation and care
for behaviorally-challenged animals, conducting research to discover new
ways to effectively and efficiently resolve behavior problems, and offering
in-person and online learning opportunities for shelter professionals to
help them prioritize integrated animal care and rehabilitate shelter animals
facing behavioral barriers to adoption.

The Behavioral Rehabilitation Center standards of behavioral care.

The ASPCA Behavioral Rehabilitation We also provide behavior rehabilitation

BUTTERS
Center (BRC) in Weaverville, North information, research, and resources On July 31, a two-year-old pit bull mix
Carolina, treats extremely fearful dogs, through ASPCApro.org, which has named Butters was one of more than
primarily those who have experienced become a leading resource for animal 80 dogs rescued by the ASPCA from
cruelty and neglect. These dogs welfare practitioners, including shelter an alleged interstate dogfighting ring
undergo an intensive rehabilitation staff and veterinary professionals. across Long Island, New York City,
program designed to reduce their fear, and several nearby states. The Suffolk
improve their overall well-being, and Improving and Opening New County Acting Police Commissioner
prepare them for adoptive homes. Behavioral Rehabilitation Facilities called the case one of the most
disturbing he had witnessed in his 36
We share the learnings and research In 2021, we announced that we would
years with the department.
developed through this work with move our Cruelty Recovery Center in
shelters and rescue organizations Columbus, Ohio, to a larger building
Many of the dogs, including Butters,
across the country through in 2022 and open a Recovery &
were transported to the ASPCA
publications, trainings, studies, and Rehabilitation Center in Pawling, New
Cruelty Recovery Center in Ohio,
other resources of the ASPCA Learning York, by 2024.
where they spent several months
Lab and ASPCApro, the ASPCA
Both sites will significantly improve the recovering and receiving care. Butters
informational and training website for
quality of life and adoption prospects suffered from leg injuries and was
animal welfare professionals.
for some of the country’s most easily frightened, but the staff at the
Since its inception in 2013, the BRC vulnerable animals, including those CRC slowly increased Butters’ activity
has graduated more than 500 dogs. rescued from hoarding situations, and helped her rebuild trust. Butters
dogfighting, puppy mills, cruelty, and recovered and was eventually adopted
natural disasters. by a family in Omaha, Nebraska.
The ASPCA Learning Lab

The ASPCA Learning Lab offers Along with the BRC, the CRC and Read Butters’ story at
in-person and virtual training and R&R Center will integrate advanced aspca.org/ARButters
resources to shelters across the behavioral healthcare into all aspects
country as part of its mission to elevate of ASPCA shelter operations, including
behavioral healthcare for dogs and critical medical care, daily care, and
cats in animal shelters. In 2021, the enrichment.
Learning Lab supported more than
10,000 interactions through free online Working alongside law enforcement and animal welfare
roundtables and courses that bring
ASPCA best practices and knowledge
professionals to assist with cases of cruelty and neglect
to shelter staffs. They also engaged is a key part of the ASPCA’s work to improve the lives of
a select group of 14 animal welfare animals in communities nationwide.
organizations to explore programmatic-
level changes aimed at increasing their - Teresa Ladner,
Senior Director of Investigations for the ASPCA Legal Advocacy & Investigations team
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PROVIDING DIRECT CARE
TO AT-RISK PETS AND THEIR TALIA
OWNERS
Talia was rescued alongside 90 other
dogs from a dilapidated, single-
wide trailer in Shadyside, Ohio in
The ASPCA’s direct animal care programs in New York, Los Angeles, Miami,
May 2021. Like many animals who
and North Carolina provide expert care to animals and pet owners who
come from situations of neglect or
need it most. ASPCA veterinary clinics in these cities assisted nearly 58,500
severe overcrowding, Talia was very
animals with basic and preventative care in 2021, including more than 43,700
fearful of humans, which significantly
spay/neuter surgeries.
challenged her adoption chances.
New York City Programs client expectations.
Talia was transferred to the BRC,
In New York City, the ASPCA operates Many of our Adoption Center animals
where behavioral specialists
a longstanding Animal Hospital and came to us from our partner, Animal
worked closely with her. She was
Adoption Center, a Kitten Nursery for Care Centers of NYC, which is New
also assisted by helper dogs, who
extremely vulnerable young kittens, two York City’s official animal care agency.
can often give fearful animals the
animal recovery centers (the Animal Most of these incoming animals
confidence and reinforcement they
Recovery Center and the Canine were very young kittens who needed
need to interact successfully with
Annex for Recovery and Enrichment) veterinary care from specialists at our
people and their environment. By
that specialize in providing recovery ASPCA Kitten Nursery and specially
the end of her treatment, Talia had
and rehabilitation for animal victims trained foster homes before they could
overcome her fear and was eventually
of cruelty, three community veterinary be available for adoption.
adopted into a loving home with the
clinics that provide affordable and
In April, we opened the Brooklyn help of a partner shelter in South
accessible veterinary care, as well as
Community Veterinary Clinic (CVC), Carolina.
mobile spay/neuter and primary pet
care units. supported by the Alex and Elisabeth
Read Talia’s story at
Lewyt Charitable Trust, to create
aspca.org/ARTalia
In 2021, the ASPCA Animal Hospital better access to affordable veterinary
provided critical veterinary care to services for underserved pet owners
more than 8,750 animals, including and improve the health and welfare
more than 360 animal victims of cruelty of dogs and cats in Brooklyn. This
who received specialized medical and CVC serves an area with limited
behavioral treatments at the hospital’s resources for veterinary care, with
recovery centers. An overwhelming partially and fully subsidized basic and
majority of these cruelty victims were preventive veterinary services, spay/
rescued through the ASPCA-NYPD neuter surgeries, and vaccinations for
Partnership. homeless dogs and cats being cared
for by animal shelters and rescue
Throughout 2021, more than 1,400 organizations.
animals were adopted from the
ASPCA Adoption Center into safe The Brooklyn CVC joins other ASPCA
and loving homes—most of them with facilities in New York City, including the
support from nearly 600 foster homes. Bronx CVC, the Glendale spay/neuter
ASPCA Matchmakers supported clinic, and several ASPCA mobile
these connections to help ensure the clinics in a growing commitment to
adoptions met both animal needs and expand access to veterinary care.

The behavioral and psychological impact of cruelty and neglect on dogs and cats
is both devastating and complex, and the ASPCA is responding by expanding our
programs to address behavior-related barriers to adoption. These specialized programs
will help us learn how to be even more effective in preparing these vulnerable animals
for life in a loving home, and we look forward to sharing our learnings with the animal
welfare field. - Matt Bershadker,
President & CEO of the ASPCA
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PROVIDING DIRECT CARE TO AT-RISK PETS
AND THEIR OWNERS (continued)
BY THE
Los Angeles Programs community. In 2021, this CVC assisted NUMBERS:
In Los Angeles, the ASPCA plays a
more than 6,500 local animals.
Animal Veterinary
major role in the health and welfare of
The ASPCA Spay/Neuter Alliance Care in NYC
vulnerable animals, including running
a spay/neuter clinic that helps the City A pioneer in the development and In New York City alone,
of Los Angeles animal shelter and local advance of high-quality, high-volume ASPCA efforts assisted more
pet owners, as well as mobile spay/ spay/neuter techniques, the ASPCA than 37,000 animals, including
neuter units that also provide services Spay/Neuter Alliance (ASNA) in at the following locations:
to pets in need. Asheville, North Carolina, supports the
Western North Carolina community
We also help care for kittens under by spaying and neutering more than ASPCA NYC Mobile Clinics:
eight weeks old—an extremely 25,000 animals—including pets as
vulnerable population—through the
ASPCA L.A. Kitten Foster Program.
In 2021, our facility and mobile
well as shelter cats and dogs—at its
facility annually. Read details about 7,000+
animals
ASNA’s spay/neuter work in 2021 in the
programs in Los Angeles assisted more “Advancing the Practice and Impact of
than 22,000 animals overall, including Spay/Neuter Surgery” section of this
nearly 1,400 cats fostered through our Annual Report.
Kitten Foster Program.
ASPCA Glendale, NYC
The Miami Community Veterinary Spay/Neuter Clinic:
Clinic

In Miami, we operate a Community

nearly
Veterinary Clinic in Liberty City that
addresses the pressing pet care 6,800
needs of that critically underserved
animals
ADVANCING THE PRACTICE AND
IMPACT OF SPAY/NEUTER SURGERY ASPCA Animal Hospital:

Accessible and affordable spay/neuter services are essential to significantly

decreasing the number of animals entering shelters and improving the 8,750+
health and welfare of animals and community animal populations. A
national leader in the development and practice of high-quality, high-
volume spay/neuter surgeries through the work of the ASPCA Spay/Neuter
animals
Alliance in North Carolina, the ASPCA also provides high-quality, low-cost
spay/neuter services in critically underserved communities in New York
City, Los Angeles, and Miami. In 2021, we provided spay/neuter surgeries ASPCA Brooklyn CVC:
to more than 63,000 animals in our focus areas.

The ASPCA also conducts in-person and video training programs that 11,400+
share spay/neuter surgery innovations and insight with veterinary clinics
and professionals throughout the country. animals
The ASPCA Spay/Neuter Alliance spay/neuter teaching operation,
with training programs available
In 2021, the ASPCA Spay/Neuter ASPCA Bronx CVC:
for veterinary students, licensed
Alliance (ASNA) performed more
than 20,000 surgeries for dogs and
veterinarians, and medical teams. nearly
cats belonging to area residents and
shelters and rescues in the region.
Since its inception in 1994, ASNA has
trained 190 spay/neuter clinics and
more than 7,700 vets and vet students.
12,400
ASNA is also a nationally renowned animals
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ADVANCING THE PRACTICE AND IMPACT OF SPAY/NEUTER SURGERY (continued)
New York City Services since coming there in 2014. This provides accessible and affordable
service includes spay/neuter support basic and preventive veterinary care to
As part of our overall service to New to low-income pet owners, community Miami-Dade County cats and dogs.
York City residents, animals, and cats, and animals at Los Angeles
shelters, we performed nearly 26,000 Animal Services and County of Los
spay/neuter surgeries at ASPCA Angeles Department of Animal Care &
Community Veterinary Clinics and Control Animal Care Centers. Our spay/
facilities in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and neuter support to local agencies helps
Queens, as well as at ASPCA mobile their shelter animals go home faster,
spay/neuter clinics. enabling the shelters to help more
animals in need.

Los Angeles Services

Miami Services
The ASPCA Los Angeles program
performed more than 16,900 spay/ The ASPCA Miami Community
neuter surgeries in 2021, including Veterinary Clinic performed nearly 840
more than 10,000 cats and dogs spay/neuter surgeries, more than half
spayed/neutered aboard ASPCA of which were for clients in Liberty City,
mobile clinics and nearly 7,000 owned where the CVC is situated, and where
pets, foster kittens, and shelter and we’re focusing this effort to address the
rescue animals at our South L.A. Clinic. pressing pet care needs of this critically
In October, we performed our 100,000th underserved community. In addition to
spay/neuter surgery in Los Angeles spay/neuter services, the ASPCA also

It’s well-known that spay/neuter surgeries can

significantly reduce shelter intake, but the key to
elevating that lifesaving impact is making those
services accessible and affordable to pet owners and
rescue organizations who desperately need them.

- Matt Bershadker,
President & CEO of the ASPCA

Given L.A.’s substantial dog and cat population, there

is a continuous need for spay/neuter services. To meet
that challenge, our program brings free services to pet
owners in areas with the greatest need. Meeting owners
where they are removes several obstacles to accessing
spay/neuter resources, including affordability and lack
of transportation.

- Jennifer Anderson,
Senior Director of Operations for ASPCA
Los Angeles Community Medicine

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MOVING ANIMALS FROM
PERIL TO OPPORTUNITY Relocation works best
when it’s not just an
Through Animal Relocation occasional movement of
The ASPCA Relocation Program transports at-risk homeless animals by
animals—it’s a consistent
land and air from areas of very high shelter intake, large-scale cruelty flow. The shelters can
cases, and natural disasters to places where they are more likely to rely on the transport
be adopted. Putting these animals on a faster path to new homes also
reduces pressure at partner shelters where the animals originated, giving
coming and know what
those organizations space and resources to create and strengthen animal animals will be going and
welfare programs in their communities. what space will be made
In 2021, the ASPCA Animal Relocation Since starting our relocation program available for them. Animal
Program completed more than 1,000 in 2014, we have transported more relocation is an essential
animal transport trips, relocating more than 200,000 companion animals tool to free up resources
than 34,500 animals (roughly 24,700 on over 7,800 trips throughout the
dogs and 9,800 cats). These lifesaving country, making the ASPCA the so those shelters can
journeys included 895 ground largest transporter of shelter dogs better serve the animals
transports and 132 air transports. and cats for adoption in the U.S. in their communities.

- Karen Walsh,
Senior Director, ASPCA Animal
Relocation Program

MILA AND AVA

Mila, a 10-month-old German
Shepherd mix, was found in
Washington County by two college
students who went door to door trying
to find an owner but had no luck. They
contacted Washington County Animal
Shelter in Fayetteville, Arkansas,
where she quickly became a favorite
among staff. Mila and Ava, a five-
month-old Husky/German Shepherd
mix also found as a stray, were placed
on a Nancy Silverman Rescue Ride
vehicle and journeyed from Arkansas
to Great Plains SPCA in Merriam,
Kansas. Mila was adopted within two
weeks, and Ava quickly found a home
with a canine sibling.

Read their story at

aspca.org/ARMila

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TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION
OF WELL-ROUNDED VETERINARIANS
Across the U.S., the ASPCA employs hundreds of veterinarians and veterinary
technicians at stationary and mobile clinics, temporary shelters, forensic labs,
and remotely in consultative roles with animal shelters and veterinary practices.
Utilizing this broad collection of expertise and experience, the ASPCA provides a
range of professional training experiences for veterinary professionals and aspiring
professionals seeking continuing education.

As a national veterinary shortage continues to grow, these ASPCA programs help

attract, retain, and advance the careers of veterinary professionals in a way that
uniquely prepares them to serve the animal welfare needs of their communities.

Among the professional veterinary training experiences provided by the ASPCA:

ASPCA Veterinary Forensic Science ASPCA Veterinary Technician

Center Externship (Gainesville, FL) Internship (New York City, NY)

ASPCA Veterinary Forensic ASPCA Julie Morris Shelter

Medicine Externship (New York City, Medicine Residency (New York
NY) City, NY)

ASPCA Animal Hospital Veterinary ASPCA Animal Hospital Small

Externship (New York City, NY) Animal Rotating Internship (New
York City, NY)
ASPCA Adoption Center Externship
(New York City, NY) ASPCA Spay/Neuter Alliance
Veterinarian Training Program
ASPCA Community Medicine (Asheville, NC)
Externship (Brooklyn, NY)
ASPCA Animal Hospital Access to
ASPCA Spay/Neuter Alliance Vet Care Fellowship (New York
Veterinary Student Externship City, NY)
(Asheville, NC)

ASPCA Animal Poison Control

Center Externship (Remote)

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ASPCA ACTION ACROSS AMERICA

Clockwise from top left: The Cruelty Recovery Center’s Niki Curnell, Manager, Medical Support, with Rhene, a dog
transported out of harm’s way from Hurricane Ida to a temporary shelter in Knoxville, TN; Brynáe Riggins, Manager, Federal
Legislation, with a dog rescued from an Iowa puppy mill case; and Kylie McGarity, Equine Training & Behavior Specialist, at
the Equine Transition and Adoption Center in Oklahoma with Micah, an 18-year-old gelding.

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Clockwise from top left: Lauren Zverina, Director, Shelter Behavior Science, with a beagle mix puppy rescued from a
Shadyside, Ohio hoarding case; a neonate kitten gets some TLC at the ASPCA Kitten Nursery in Manhattan; clients pick
up their pets after a mobile spay/neuter event at the Basil Behagan Playground in the Bronx; Cricket Allen, Behavior
Rehabilitation Center Specialist, with Abbie, a recent graduate of the BRC in Weaverville, N.C.; and National Response
Team’s Ryan McFadden, Manager, Animal Rescue Technician, delivering dog food to shelters in Kentucky after flooding.
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ENHANCING PROTECTIONS FOR
ANIMALS THROUGH PUBLIC POLICY
ASPCA Government Relations and the country. In 2021, the ASPCA helped dogs and puppies, most of whom are
Legal Advocacy & Investigation work overturn a 30-year-old law in Overland sold at pet stores or over the Internet.
keeps intense pressure on federal, Park, Kansas, which barred residents The AWA directs the USDA to license
state, and local governments from owning pit-bull-type dogs and and inspect these businesses to ensure
to ensure the enactment of joined a coalition of organizations that they provide minimum standards of
compassionate policies that stop successfully stopped an anti-pit bull care and enforce the law when the
animal cruelty and protect dogs, ordinance in Stoneville, North Carolina. agency identifies violations. Despite
cats, horses, and farm animals from this Congressional mandate, the USDA
After identifying needed reforms in
suffering. pursued policies that allow violations to
the insurance industry, the ASPCA go unreported and unpunished and has
spearheaded work that led to the not imposed a single penalty against
Keeping People and Pets Together in
introduction and passage of first- a dog dealer since 2017. Our lawsuit
Communities Across the Country
in-the-nation legislation in Nevada seeks to compel the USDA to record
In New York City, the ASPCA helped and New York to prohibit property all observed violations of the AWA and
enact two laws to expand co-sheltering insurance companies from denying end its policies of non-enforcement.
options so people experiencing homeowners’ coverage for families
homelessness and their pets can with specific breeds of dogs. In December, following years of ASPCA
stay together safely. These laws leadership and background working
At the federal level, the ASPCA worked on puppy mill enforcement efforts, a
require the Department of Homeless closely with legislators to introduce the
Services (DHS) and the Department bipartisan group of federal lawmakers
Pets Belong With Families Act, which introduced Goldie’s Act, which requires
of Social Services to develop a plan would prevent discrimination against
to accommodate pets of individuals meaningful penalties for AWA violations
certain breeds of dogs and discourage uncovered by USDA inspectors and
and families who are homeless by size and weight-based restrictions
providing pet-friendly shelters and ensures they share findings of cruelty
on pets in government-owned Public and neglect with local law enforcement.
DHS to provide a monthly report on the Housing.
placement or disposition of pets who
This legislation was introduced on the
belong to people who enter homeless
Working to End Puppy Mills heels of a disturbing case in Iowa,
shelters. The compilation of this data
where the ASPCA assisted the Animal
will facilitate efforts to increase the In Florida, the ASPCA took action Rescue League of Iowa (ARL) with the
availability of pet-friendly services for to ensure that the Boards of rescue of more than 500 dogs and
people who are homeless. Commissioners of Orange and puppies living in horrific conditions
Manatee Counties, Florida, passed at multiple properties operated by a
In California, we helped secure $10
ordinances to shut down the puppy USDA-licensed dog breeder.
million in the state budget to fund the
mill pipeline into those communities
Pet Assistance Support (PAS) Program,
by ending the sale of cats and dogs in
which allows homeless shelters to
retail stores.
make accommodations for individuals
with pets. At the federal level, the ASPCA
filed a lawsuit against the USDA for
In Missouri, the ASPCA successfully
abandoning its responsibility to enforce
lobbied for the enactment of a new
the Animal Welfare Act (AWA)—a
law establishing pet protective orders,
federal law passed more than 50 years
ensuring that pets are legally able to be
ago to ensure the humane treatment
included when survivors of domestic
and care of animals used for research
violence or other threats require such
and many commercial purposes,
orders.
including dogs bred for the pet trade.
The ASPCA also continues to be Approximately 2,000 commercial dog
a leader in the fight to end breed breeders and dealers are licensed by
discrimination in communities across the USDA and house roughly 250,000

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ENHANCING PROTECTIONS FOR ANIMALS
THROUGH PUBLIC POLICY (continued)
Supporting Laws and Policies that higher welfare conditions. Through
Help Dogs, Farm Animals, and strong advocacy, the ASPCA secured
Horses additional sponsors for this legislation
and raised its profile with dozens of
The ASPCA led efforts to secure crucial letters to editors and meetings
protections for animals and increased
funding for critical animal welfare
between volunteers and their Case Study:
representatives.
programs in the Federal Fiscal Year
2022 Appropriations bills to fund the The ASPCA’s longstanding efforts
SHAKE A PAW
USDA and the Interior Department. to end horse slaughter enabled In December 2021, the ASPCA
These provisions protect dogs in puppy the successful passage of a ban joined New York Attorney General
mills, end horse slaughter and prevent on horse slaughter in the House Letitia James at a press conference
horse cruelty, expand resources of Representatives as well as the announcing a lawsuit against Shake
for survivors of domestic violence introduction of the Save America’s A Paw, a retail pet shop that sells
and their pets, support farmers who Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act in puppies, for unlawfully and deceptively
use higher-welfare standards, and Congress, helping build strong selling sick puppies to unsuspecting
fund a humane wild horse and burro cosponsor support for the legislation consumers at its two Long Island
management plan that includes fertility and providing critical national data locations.
control implementation, which the and background research to
Like other U.S. puppy-selling pet
ASPCA strongly supports as the most demonstrate the urgency and
stores, Shake A Paw buys puppies
protective management approach to justification for prohibiting horse
from out-of-state commercial breeding
ensure wild horses and burros will be slaughter.
facilities where dogs are often kept in
able to safely roam our public lands.
cruel conditions. The ASPCA helped
In 2021, the ASPCA supported the the New York State Attorney General’s
reintroduction of federal legislation to office understand the connection
enhance protections for farm animals. between Shake A Paw and an Iowa-
The Farm System Reform Act will help based USDA licensed breeder forced
create a more humane food system by to surrender over 500 dogs after the
moving away from destructive severe USDA documented more than 200
confinement practices as well as violations of the federal Animal Welfare
support farmers transitioning toward Act on his properties.

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STOPPING ANIMAL CRUELTY
THROUGH THE ASPCA-NYPD
PARTNERSHIP
The ASPCA-NYPD Partnership In addition, the NYPD made 101
launched citywide in 2014, with animal cruelty arrests, and ASPCA
the NYPD responding to all animal Veterinary Forensic Science teams
cruelty complaints in the five in NYC and Gainesville, FL, took on
boroughs and the ASPCA providing more than 300 cases to support
direct care for animal victims, as
well as conducting law enforcement
animal cruelty prosecutions. TOMATO
training and providing veterinary NYPD Trainings Tomato was one of 30 animals,
forensic and legal support. In including 10 cats, seized by the
addition, our ASPCA Community Throughout the year, the ASPCA ASPCA from a residence in Queens on
Engagement work follows up trained hundreds of police officers November 26, 2021. During her initial
on NYPD referrals to help keep in animal cruelty case tactics examination, Tomato was found to be
pets safely in their homes and and partnered with the NYPD on underweight with a dirty hair coat. She
prevent animal suffering. The community events. The ASPCA also
also had an ear infection and ear mites
ASPCA and NYPD also participate conducted more than 50 virtual and
collaboratively in ASPCA-led animal that caused intense pain and itchiness
in-person animal cruelty trainings
cruelty trainings and community for thousands of NYPD officers, and neurological issues stemming from
events throughout the city to deliver detectives, and prosecutors. her untreated ear infection. Tomato
services that enable residents to walked in an uncoordinated gait on
keep and care for their pets. Community Events
wobbly legs, and her injured left eye
needed to be removed by veterinarians.
Stopping Cruelty In 2021, the ASPCA collaborated
with the NYPD on more than 20 Tomato’s many medical issues were
From its citywide inception in 2014 events throughout all five boroughs treated by ASPCA veterinarians,
through the end of 2021, the ASPCA that typically provided a range of and her sweet demeanor and playful
and NYPD—working together— services and resources for pets and interactions with other cats helped fast-
rescued and treated more than 3,350 their owners, including vaccines and track her into a foster home. She was
vulnerable animals. Overall in 2021, grooming services, dog and cat pet adopted the following year by a young
nearly 400 dogs and cats were seized food, and other pet care support and woman who is overjoyed by her very
by the NYPD and treated by ASPCA information. special special-needs cat.
veterinary and behavior professionals.
Read Tomato’s Story at
aspca.org/ARTomato

Upon our arrival on the scene, it was clear these

animals were living in terrible conditions and
needed to be immediately rescued and brought to
safety. We’re grateful to the NYPD for continuing
to prioritize animal welfare in NYC and are proud
to play a role in providing these dogs with the care
they so badly need and deserve.

- Howard Lawrence,
Vice President of ASPCA Humane Law Enforcement, speaking about the
October 2021 rescue of 21 dogs from a cruelty situation in Brooklyn, New York

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INCREASING EQUINE
ADOPTION
While a significant number of dog Regional Support Center Pilot
and cat owners obtain their pets
through adoption, that option is Meanwhile, the ASPCA Regional
often not as accessible within Support Center pilot in Oklahoma
the horse community, leaving City, Oklahoma, offered a range of
horses vulnerable. Addressing this assistance for locally owned equines—
challenge head-on, the ASPCA including subsidized veterinary
Equine Welfare program works services and safe rehoming for horses,
on several projects to help at-risk mules, and donkeys who could no
horses, including the ASPCA Right longer be cared for—assisting more
Horse program, which facilitates than 100 horses in 2021. Many owners
collaborations between the equine reported seeking help for their horses
industry and animal welfare for a year or longer before finding
professionals to find more homes
and careers for horses in transition.
support here, highlighting the critical
need for more safety-net services for STEADY
In 2021, ASPCA Right Horse horses.
More Than Steady, known around the
Partners placed nearly 3,600 horses barn as “Steady,” started his journey
in adoptive homes. The Equine Transition and Adoption on Florida racetracks. Once he was too
Center old to race, his caretakers retired him
Adopt a Horse Month responsibly and wanted to ensure that
By the end of the year, the Regional
In May 2021, the ASPCA Equine Support Center evolved into the he’d have a healthy and safe transition
Welfare program led the first-ever Equine Transition and Adoption Center into a new career. Michigan-based
ASPCA Adopt a Horse Month, a pilot, which expanded its reach to Horses’ Haven, an ASPCA Right Horse
nationwide effort to increase and supporting horses throughout the state Adoption Partner, took in Steady and,
celebrate equine adoption. More of Oklahoma. The program continues within weeks, found him a home with
than 150 equine shelters and rescues to provide affordable veterinary care an Animal Control Officer who loves
participated in the event, which for struggling horse owners and Steady’s calm demeanor and enjoys
educates and encourages the public judgment-free support to help horses taking him on trail rides.
to adopt their next horse using transition to their next home.
myrighthorse.org, the ASPCA’s Read Steady’s Story at
online adoption platform for equines. At the facility, a training and behavior
aspca.org/ARSteady
specialist works with relinquished
Using insight from our dog-and-cat horses to prepare them for new homes
animal relocation efforts, we also while an adoption specialist explores
launched the ASPCA Horse Adoption marketing methods for finding each
Express, an equine transport program horse a loving home. Most importantly,
to move horses between ASPCA Right we share what we learn from the
Horse Partner shelters and rescues program with the equine welfare
to increase their adoption prospects. community to elevate and expand
In 2021, the program transported equine adoption efforts nationwide,
188 horses to adoption partners and sharply focusing on increasing
trainers to help them find adoptive the adoption of horses who have
homes more efficiently. traditionally been harder to place.

The ASPCA Horse Adoption Express is one example of how we’re innovating and
adapting learning from successful dog and cat adoption approaches to create new
opportunities for horses.
- Christie Schulte Kappert,
Senior Director, ASPCA Equine
Welfare

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PROTECTING ANIMALS ABUSED
IN CRUEL FARMING SYSTEMS
In 2021, the ASPCA continued the fourth year in a row to help farmers
securing corporate and legislative meet the standards of meaningful
policies that improve the lives of animal welfare certification programs.
farm animals and encouraging More than 32,000 farm animals have
consumer action and awareness that benefited from FACT grants supported We designed the
make the process of food production by the ASPCA since 2017.
in America more compassionate and ASPCA’s Shop With
humane. To encourage greater transparency Your Heart program to
and dialogue around the connections
To coincide with the fifth anniversary of between factory farming and a
help consumers—no
its Shop With Your Heart program, the multitude of social justice issues, the matter what they eat—
ASPCA launched a new tool called the ASPCA and Vermont Law School (VLS) make choices that show
Shop With Your Heart Grocery List—a launched a new Animal Law Media
searchable directory of welfare-certified Fellowship to offer journalists the
animal agriculture there
animal products and plant-based opportunity to attend a VLS summer is no place for animal
alternatives. course focusing on the intersections of cruelty in our food
farm animal welfare, factory farming,
Throughout the year, we also secured system.
media, and the law.
36 new food industry commitments
to meaningfully improve millions of
farm animals’ welfare, including from
The Honest Kitchen, a major pet - Daisy Freund,
food company, and Giant Eagle, the Vice President, ASPCA
eleventh-largest supermarket chain in Farm Animal Welfare
the country.

The ASPCA also granted funds to the

Food Animal Concerns Trust (FACT) for

HELPING PETS EXPOSED GUMBO

TO POISONS Gumbo, a one-year-old dachshund
mix, was among the animals
helped by the APCC in 2021.
The ASPCA Animal Poison Control nearly 200 veterinary professionals,
Gumbo chewed through a bag
Center (APCC) operates a 24-hour- including board-certified toxicologists,
of various medications, including
a-day, 365-days-a-year hotline that veterinarians, veterinary technicians,
acetaminophen, a common
serves as a critical and trusted and veterinary assistants. The APCC
household over-the-counter
resource for pet owners and uses a proprietary database that
medication that can cause life-
veterinarians nationwide in keeping contains data from over four million
threatening issues when ingested by
animals safe and healthy. recorded cases since the program’s
pets. After a month of treatments and
inception more than 45 years ago.
Expert staff at the ASPCA Animal ongoing collaboration between APCC
Poison Control Center answered nearly and his veterinarians, Gumbo fully
416,000 calls in 2021, assisting more recovered, illustrating this service’s
than 401,000 animals with a wide range enormous impact on owners,
of toxicity concerns. animals, and veterinarians.

The only poison control center in Read Gumbo’s Story at

the country focused exclusively on aspca.org/ARGumbo
animals, the APCC is staffed by

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2021 KEY FINANCIAL METRICS

Total income $375,185,142

Total program expenses $228,580,572

Shelter and Veterinary

Services $102,962,979
Expenses for each major program
Public Education and
activity category that appears in the Communications $84,471,215
organization’s financial statements
Policy, Response and
Engagement $41,146,378

Total fundraising expenses $60,146,241

Total administrative expenses $14,155,986

End of the year net assets $507,625,383

TO VIEW THE ASPCA’S 2021 AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENT, PLEASE VISIT

aspca.org/auditreport2021

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ASPCA OFFICERS & DIRECTORS

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Matthew Bershadker Beverly Jones OFFICERS MEMBERS (continued)
ASPCA President & CEO Senior Vice President,
Chief Legal Officer Sally Spooner, Martin Puris
Cheryl Bucci Chairperson Frederick Tanne
Senior Vice President, Gordon Lavalette Mary Jo White
Operations & People Senior Vice President, Scott Thiel, Tim F. Wray
Chief Financial Officer Vice Chairperson
Elizabeth Estroff EMERITI
Jane W. Parver,
Senior Vice President, Bert Troughton DIRECTORS
Treasurer
Communications Senior Vice President,
Shelter & Veterinary Services George W. Gowen
Linda Lloyd Lambert,
Todd Hendricks Secretary Hoyle C. Jones
Senior Vice President, Stacy Wolf Thomas N. McCarter III
Development Senior Vice President, Marvin Schiller
Policy, Response & MEMBERS James F. Stebbins
Engagement
Matt Bershadker
Arriana Boardman LIFE TRUSTEES
Michael D’Alto
Sivan Hong Jonathan D. Farkas
Jeffrey A. Pfeifle Gurdon H. Metz
James L. Nederlander

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 ASPCA CORPORATE OFFICE
New York, NY
(888) 666-2279

ASPCA ANIMAL HOSPITAL

New York, NY
(888) 666-2279

ASPCA ADOPTION CENTER

New York, NY
(212) 876-7700 ext. 4120

ASPCA KITTEN NURSERY

New York, NY

ASPCA SOUTH L.A. SPAY AND

NEUTER CLINIC
Los Angeles, CA
(844) 692-7722

ASPCA ANIMAL POISON

CONTROL CENTER
Champaign, IL
(888) 426-4435

ASPCA D.C. OFFICE

Washington, DC

ASPCA MIDWEST OFFICE

Champaign, IL

ASPCA MIAMI COMMUNITY

VETERINARY CLINIC
Miami, FL
(844) 692-7722

ASPCA BRONX COMMUNITY

VETERINARY CLINIC
Bronx, NY
(844) 692-7722

ASPCA BROOKLYN COMMUNITY

VETERINARY CLINIC
Brooklyn, NY
(844) 692-7722

ASPCA SPAY/NEUTER ALLIANCE

Asheville, NC
(828) 252-2079

ASPCA BEHAVIORAL
REHABILITATION CENTER
Weaverville, NC

ASPCA CRUELTY RECOVERY CENTER

Columbus, OH

ASPCA EQUINE TRANSITION

AND ADOPTION CENTER
El Reno, OK

ASPCA VETERINARY FORENSIC

SCIENCES CENTER
Gainesville, FL

ASPCA GUARDIAN MEMBER SUPPORT

(800) 628-0028