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SF/SPCA Figures Through the Years

• 53 Animal cruelty cases prosecuted in 1877
  
  
• 18,000 People signed a petition in 1888, demanding that San Francisco's Public Pound be placed under SF/SPCA control
  
  
• 336 Lost dogs rescued after the 1906 earthquake and fire
  
  
• 2,069 Horses in the "Horses' Day" parade, September 9, 1911
  
  
• 37 Volunteers in 1869
  
  
• 850 Volunteers in 2005
  
  
• Approximately 10,000 members in 2005
  
  
• 760 Hearing Dogs trained and placed since 1978
  
  
• Approximately 180,000 Adoptions since 1976
  
  
• Approximately 125,000 Animals spayed or neutered since 1982