# $SURRENDER · Pets given up at city shelters

Animals their owners handed over to three city shelters in a month: Austin, Dallas and Montgomery County, Maryland, added together, from each city's own intake records. Austin: intake sources Owner Surrender, ACO - Owner Surrender and Ambulance - Owner Surrender. Dallas: intake type OWNER SURRENDER. Montgomery County: intake type OWNER SUR. Owner requests to put an animal down (Montgomery EUTH REQ, Dallas DISPOS REQ) are not counted. Counted from June 2025, the first full month all three publish.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Newest complete period | Oct 2026: 630 animals, score 9, Quiet |
| Source | Austin Animal Center intakes, Dallas Animal Services intakes and Montgomery County MD animal intakes, owner surrender rows (https://data.austintexas.gov/d/pyqf-r2dc) |
| Terms | City open data portals. Montgomery County marks its file public domain. Austin and Dallas state no licence on these files. |
| Cadence | Monthly. The cities post intakes within days; a month prints seven days after it ends. |
| Grade | display |
| Rulebook | Rulebook v0.2, 2026-10-04 |

## Settlement

Why this grade: Three cities, not the country, and two of the three files carry no licence. Shown, not settled on.
What it costs to move: Hard. Moving a month means handing animals to a shelter by the dozen.
When the source is late: A month prints only when all three cities have rows in it. If one city stops posting, the month stays open. A month a city never posts is void.
Precision: Whole animals with the named owner surrender values in each file, by intake date, summed.

## As first published, and the proof

Not on-chain yet. The newest complete period goes on-chain with the daily proof at 12:40 UTC.

## Last 30 complete periods

| Period | Level | Change | Band |
| --- | ---: | ---: | --- |
| Oct 2026 | 630 animals | +6.1% | Quiet |
| Sep 2026 | 594 animals | +0.2% | Quiet |
| Aug 2026 | 593 animals | -0.2% | Quiet |
| Jul 2026 | 594 animals | -2.6% | Quiet |
| Jun 2026 | 610 animals | -13.2% | Quiet |
| May 2026 | 703 animals | +8.8% |  |
| Apr 2026 | 646 animals | +4.0% |  |
| Mar 2026 | 621 animals | +12.5% |  |
| Feb 2026 | 552 animals | +7.8% |  |
| Jan 2026 | 512 animals | +9.2% |  |
| Dec 2025 | 469 animals | +5.4% |  |
| Nov 2025 | 445 animals | -2.8% |  |
| Oct 2025 | 458 animals | +6.5% |  |
| Sep 2025 | 430 animals | -12.1% |  |
| Aug 2025 | 489 animals | -30.8% |  |
| Jul 2025 | 707 animals | -3.2% |  |
| Jun 2025 | 730 animals |  |  |

JSON: https://tickerz.com/api/indices/surrender

## Asked often

**How many pets do owners give up to shelters each month?** 630 animals were handed over by their owners to the city shelters of Austin, Dallas and Montgomery County, Maryland, in Oct 2026, counted by Tickerz from each city's intake records.

**Where does the $SURRENDER number come from?** Tickerz reads it from Austin Animal Center intakes, Dallas Animal Services intakes and Montgomery County MD animal intakes, owner surrender rows. Monthly. The cities post intakes within days; a month prints seven days after it ends. Each number is kept as it was first published, with a timestamped proof, and any later revision is shown beside it.

**Can I download the $SURRENDER data?** Yes, free and with no key: the full history as JSON at https://tickerz.com/api/indices/surrender and every period as CSV at https://tickerz.com/api/indices/surrender/history.csv.

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