What is the definition of the Asilomar Accords?
Asilomar is a retreat center in Pacific Grove, California where eighteen national, regional and local animal welfare leaders met in August of 2004 to build bridges across varying philosophies, develop relationships, and create goals focused on ending the killing of healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats in the United States. The outcome of the meeting was the Asilomar Accords which include a set of Guiding Principles, standardized definitions, a statistics table for tracking shelter populations and a formula for determining shelter live release rates. The purpose of the definitions, table, and live release rate formula is to produce a uniform system so that shelters and other stakeholders can get a better understanding of lifesaving progress nationwide.
