Care of dogs and attitudes of dog owners in Port-au-Prince, the Republic of Haiti.
J Appl Anim Welf Sci
; 15(3): 236-53, 2012.
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ABSTRACT
This article reports the first known study on dogs in Port-au-Prince. Interviews with 1,290 residents provided information on 1,804 dogs. More than 57.7% of homes kept dogs. Not all the dogs received vaccinations for rabies (41.6%), even though 28.2% of households had had a household member bitten by a dog. Although the "owned" dog population had decreased as a result of the earthquake in January 2010, the number of roaming dogs appeared to have been uninfluenced by the disaster. Given that 64.8% of dogs probably had access to the street and only 6.0% of the females were spayed, to humanely contain the dog population will require both confinement and neutering. Although roaming dogs were considered a nuisance by 63.3% of respondents, 42.6% of households fed dogs they did not own.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Bem-Estar do Animal
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Cães
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Animais de Estimação
Limite:
Animals
País/Região como assunto:
Caribe
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Haiti
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Appl Anim Welf Sci
Assunto da revista:
MEDICINA VETERINARIA
Ano de publicação:
2012
Tipo de documento:
Article