$SURRENDER
Pets given up at city shelters
6306.1% upon the month before
animals in Oct 2026Up 38% from 458 in Oct 2025
Quiet. 630 animals in Oct 2026, up 6.1% on the month before.
From Jun 2025 to Oct 2026.
How it is counted
Normal489 to 630
Highest730Jun 2025
Unusual months0
- Counts
- 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.
- Why it is here
- People give up the dog when the rent goes up. The shelters write it down.
- 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. Newest complete month Oct 2026. Read Nov 12, 22:40 UTC. 1 month was revised by the source after first read; the chart shows the latest numbers.
- Baseline
- The prior 24 months, 12 needed.
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630 pets were given up by their owners at the Austin, Dallas and Montgomery County shelters in Oct 2026, according to Tickerz, which counts them from each city's intake records.
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- 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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- Index
- $SURRENDER Pets given up at city shelters. Rulebook v0.2, 2026-10-04.
- Prints
- Monthly. The cities post intakes within days; a month prints seven days after it ends. The newest complete month is on the record after the daily proof at 12:40 UTC.
- As first published
Oct 2026 is not timestamped yet. The daily proof at 12:40 UTC adds it.
The number as first published is final for settlement. A revision by the source is shown beside it and never replaces it.
- Fallback
- 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.
- Cost to move
- Hard. Moving a month means handing animals to a shelter by the dozen.
- Grade
- display. Three cities, not the country, and two of the three files carry no licence. Shown, not settled on.
- For a rulebook
- Settle on the number Tickerz first recorded for $SURRENDER for the month named in the contract, published at tickerz.com/x/surrender and in GET /api/indices/surrender, timestamped daily in Bitcoin with OpenTimestamps.
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- Every reading is timestamped in Bitcoin once a day, so nobody can change it later. The newest proof covers Nov 12, in Bitcoin block 975,557.Proof fileLive feedHow it works
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