Madrid Health. Animal protection centre statistics

Activity of the Animal Protection Centre: Figures have been provided since 2004 by animal type, differentiating three groups (dogs, cats and others): Number of income Average percentage of occupancy of facilities Animal collection service Adopted animals Sterilised animals Actions on urban cat populations: Information on interventions in cat colonies (global city and district data). In actions on urban cat populations, no global data for 2016 is provided due to a change in action strategies that have introduced changes in the configuration of the data that were being provided. These strategies are derived from the approval of the ‘Procedure for the management of requests for collaboration of the City of Madrid in the consolidation of controlled colonies of urban cats for reasons of sustainability and animal welfare’ and the entry into force of Law 4/2016 on the Protection of Animals of Compañía de la Comunidad de Madrid. Among them is the impulse of the management of urban cat populations through controlled feline colonies, which will allow to control the number of urban cats in a natural and effective way.