{"id":426383,"date":"2026-09-04T19:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/426383\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T19:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:42:28","slug":"lubbock-animal-services-releases-weekly-metrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/426383\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock Animal Services releases weekly metrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; City of Lubbock Animal Services released its weekly metrics report for Aug. 28 through Sept. 3.<\/p>\n<p>Call volume<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The department received 867 total phone calls. Of those, 67 calls came in on the field services line and 800 came in to the front desk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Field operations ran a total of 565 calls. Field services ran 354 original calls, and rechecks, follow-ups and officer assist calls accounted for 211 calls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A total of 287 calls were placed on hold, with an average hold time of 2 minutes, 10 seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There were 50 aggressive animal calls and 37 animal welfare calls.<\/p>\n<p>Spays, neuters and adoptions<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Animal Services reported 48 spays and neuters performed in house and 23 performed at vet clinics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The department reported 48 dog adoptions and 19 cat adoptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Seven animals were transported to other shelters around the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Eleven dogs and one cat were returned to their owners.<\/p>\n<p>Other programs and population<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The department logged 16 \u201cDoggie Day Out\u201d outings and 10 sleepovers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Total intakes for the week were 187.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The current dog population is 234, against a design capacity of 359.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For monthly metrics and information on volunteering, fostering or adopting through Lubbock Animal Services, visit mylubbock.us\/AnimalServices.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; City of Lubbock Animal Services released its weekly metrics report for Aug. 28 through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[148255,148256,168,148257,71219,170,169,148258],"class_list":["post-426383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-animal-shelter-metrics-lubbock","tag-dog-adoptions-lubbock-texas","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-animal-intake-numbers","tag-lubbock-animal-services","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-lubbock-pet-adoption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}