Absolutely.
I've worked with animals for 15+ years now, with 12 of those years being an ACO.
I started adding individual animals up that I'd have to euthanize, then just did weekly totals for my own knowledge. That being too painful, I'd just count cages and kennels I had to "open up" due to lack of space- but with that being too numerous, I just went by weight taken to the landfill weekly, then just monthly.
After a while I learned that no matter the weight, no matter the number of adults, no matter the number of litters, no matter the excuse- just one is too many outside of a true emergency situation and it's too depressing to "crunch numbers".
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