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The ability of shelters to meet the needs of their animals is called a shelter's capacity for care (C4C) (http://www.millioncatchallenge.org/resources/capacity‐for‐care). When shelters have more animals than they can house humanely or too few staff members to provide basic care, conditions adverse to animal well‐being can result (e.g. high disease rates, numerous animals housed in small spaces or in carrying crates, dirty cages). It is often easy to recognize when a shelter is overcapacity or understaffed; quantitatively measuring overcrowding or deficits in staffing may be more difficult depending on the type and quality of data available but is worth the extra effort.