Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Buff ran on the Republican ticket, against John Adams and Charles Pinckney for the Federalists. The Republican candidates won handily, but both received the same number of electoral votes, thus throwing the selection of the president into the House of Representatives.
â¢ Number of cats and dogs born every day in the U.S.: 70,000 (nearly 3,000 born every hour or 50 born every minute) â¢ Number of stray cats and dogs living in the U.S.: 70 million. â¢ Number of animals in the U.S. that die each year from cruelty, neglect, and exploitation: 30 million. â¢ Number of animal shelters in the U.S.: 4,000 â 6,000. â¢ Number of cats and dogs entering U.S. shelters each year: 6 â 8 million. â¢ Number of cats and dogs euthanized by U.S. shelters each year: 3 â 4 million (nearly 10,000 animals killed every day) â¢ Number of cats and dogs adopted by U.S. shelters each year: 3 â 4 million.
But there are far more animals in need of a caring family than there are kind people willing to provide them with a good, permanent home. Approximately 2 to 3 million cats and dogsâmany of them healthy, young, and adoptableâmust be euthanized in animal shelters every year. No one hates that ugly reality more than the people who hold the syringe, but the alternativeâwarehousing them in âno-killâ shelters that confine animals to cages for weeks, months, or years on endâleaves animals to suffer a far worse fate.