Seventy-four first-and second-year students, participating in focus groups at a northeastern U.S. university, discussed recollections of messages received at home, prior to sexual debut, about sex and sexuality. Responses were categorized as Characteristics of Communication (nature of interactions participants had at home about sexuality) and Major Message Content (actual themes of those conversations). Commonly reported characteristics were trouble talking with parents; most conversations happened with mothers; participants feared parents' reactions; and among lesbian, gay, bisexual groups, feared parents' discovering their nonheterosexual orientation. Commonly reported message content included use protection and, among women, wait. Women reported messages that were at best, mixed, and at worst, threatening or moralistic. Men reported fewer conversations, and those recalled were more neutral or encouraging, especially from fathers. Parental messages to males and females differed qualitatively, reflected stereotypical assumptions about gender roles, desire, and appropriate conditions under which to have sex, and lacked support for nonheterosexual orientations.

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Statistics about clinical data is lacking in Uruguay. Herein, we present an account of canine behavioral problems recorded from different sources: a) clinical reports on canine behaviour, from 30 veterinary clinics in Montevideo city from 2005 to 2007 (n = 179); b) records of dog attacks to people (n = 992) reported at the Servicio de Atención al Mordido (Ministerio de Salud Pública, same period); and c) conflicts from records of Comisión Nacional Honoraria de Zoonosis (n = 44,000). Based on these data we discus common behavioral problems, types of aggression involved, the frequency of male / female, if they were neutered or not and the age at the onset of the first episodes of aggression. For each record we obtained an aggressive risk factor associated to breed. The results are consistent with international reports, where the aggression was the most common behavioral problem (58.9%), and dominance aggression has the highest proportion (56%). The RDPCC records revealed that the proportion of animals involved in aggression is similar in both genders. However, SAM-MSP records showed that males (71%) were a significantly greater proportion than females (29%). Our data from RDPCC showed that 100% of males involved in aggression towards people were whole, while 38.5% females were castrated. The first signs of canine aggression towards people were observed in first year of life in 56.5% of cases. On the other hand, while the RDPCC record suggests that Cocker breed tended to show more attacks of aggression toward people, the SAMMSP record pointed to the German Shepher as the more aggressive breed. The Rottweiler and Uruguayan Cimarron, occupied the first and third place respectively in the aggressive risk factor rank associated to breed, both in RDPCC and SAM-MSP set of records. This is the first descriptive work on dog behavior problems and aggression in Montevideo, where also is shows the implication of the Cimarron uruguayo race in aggression.

La consulta por problemas de comportamiento debidos a agresividad canina representa un alto porcentaje de la atención clínica en veterinarias. En este trabajo realizamos una encuesta a médicos veterinarios de 100 clínicas veterinarias de Montevideo (Uruguay) con el objetivo de conocer como abordaban a sus pacientes perros agresivos en consulta. En casos de agresividad canina, los tratamientos más indicados por los veterinarios son el entrenamiento de obediencia (91%), la prescripción de psicofármacos (47%), indicar la eutanasia (28%) o implementar el procedimiento quirúrgico de la castración (7%). Ante consultas de agresividad canina, el 50% de los veterinarios opta por derivar el paciente a un entrenador y solo el 14% solicita exámenes colaterales. Es de resaltar el bajo porcentaje de veterinarios que utiliza exámenes colaterales para descartar o confirmar diagnósticos de agresividad canina, el uso acotado en la variedad de psicofármacos a emplear y el rol preponderante del uso de la eutanasia.

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