United States
The first SPCA in the United States was the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), founded by Henry Bergh in New York in 1866. Two years later, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded in Boston by a group that included George Thorndike Angell, John Quincy Adams II, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Saltonstall, and William Gordon Weld. Examples of other national, nonsheltering humane animal societies include: American Humane, which was founded in 1877 as a network of local organizations to prevent cruelty to children and animals.
As of 2012, the Oregon Humane Society adopts the highest percentage of animals in the U.S. nationally with 97% overall adoption rate and a 98% save rate with over 11,000 adoptions annually.
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