Characteristics of Shelter-Relinquished Animals and Their Owners Compared With Animals and Their Owners in U.S. Pet-Owning Households

Im, Piljae; Salman, Mo; King, Michael G.; Scarlett, Janet M.; Kass, Philip H.; Hutchison, Jennifer

doi:10.1207/s15327604jaws0303_1

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“…However, individuals who surrendered their animals to shelters also reported these reasons or potential risk factors (MILLER et al, 1996;NEW et al, 1999NEW et al, , 2000DIESEL et al, 2008;CASEY et al, 2009;ELLIOTT et al, 2010), suggesting that interviewees can identify in advance intolerable situations in their cohabitation with their animals. Thus preventive programs focused on the preacquisition of animals and on ethological approaches to understand and manage some behaviors, may help to reduce abandonment rates.…”

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Demographic characteristics of owned dogs and cats of Votorantim, São Paulo State, Brazil

Baquero

Chiozzotto²,

Garcia³

et al. 2015

Cienc. Rural

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Demographic characteristics of owned dogs and cats of Votorantim, São Paulo State, Brazil

Baquero

Chiozzotto²,

Garcia³

et al. 2015

Cienc. Rural

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“…8,16,[32][33][34][35][36][37] Neutering prior to adoption is likely to improve the odds that adopted animals will be retained in their new homes because being sexually intact has been identified as the leading risk factor for owner relinquishment of cats and dogs. [38][39][40][41][42] Veterinarians must weigh the risks and benefits of neutering patients with mild infectious or noninfectious medical conditions, such as upper respiratory tract disease, parasite infestation, or subclinical heartworm infection. 43,44 Although some conditions may theoretically increase the risk of anesthetic complications or the risk of transmitting infectious diseases to other animals, the benefits of neutering likely outweigh these risks in the setting of a spay-neuter program.…”

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The Association of Shelter Veterinarians’ 2016 Veterinary Medical Care Guidelines for Spay-Neuter Programs

Griffin¹,

Bushby²,

McCobb³

et al. 2016

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As community efforts to reduce the overpopulation and euthanasia of unwanted and unowned cats and dogs have increased, many veterinarians have increasingly focused their clinical efforts on the provision of spay-neuter services. Because of the wide range of geographic and demographic needs, a wide variety of spay-neuter programs have been developed to increase delivery of services to targeted populations of animals, including stationary and mobile clinics, MASHstyle operations, shelter services, community cat programs, and services provided through private practitioners. In an effort to promote consistent, high-quality care across the broad range of these programs, the Association of Shelter Veterinarians convened a task force of veterinarians to develop veterinary medical care guidelines for spay-neuter programs. These guidelines consist of recommendations for general patient care and clinical procedures, preoperative care, anesthetic management, surgical procedures, postoperative care, and operations management. They were based on current principles of anesthesiology, critical care medicine, infection control, and surgical practice, as determined from published evidence and expert opinion. They represent acceptable practices that are attainable in spay-neuter programs regardless of location, facility, or type of program. The Association of Shelter Veterinarians envisions that these guidelines will be used by the profession to maintain consistent veterinary medical care in all settings where spay-neuter services are provided and to promote these services as a means of reducing sheltering and euthanasia of cats and dogs.

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“…Most cat and dog owners, for instance, will typically claim to know how their companion animal is 'feeling'. However, it is evident from the large number of animals that fail to integrate successfully and end up in animal rescue centres, that understanding their behaviour can be problematic, New et al [8].…”

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"I Can Haz Emoshuns?"--Understanding Anthropomorphosis of Cats among Internet Users

Foster

Kirman

Linehan

et al. 2011

2011 IEEE Third Int'l Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and 2011 IEEE Third Int'l Conference on Social Computing

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The attribution of human-like traits to non-human animals, termed anthropomorphism, can lead to misunderstandings of animal behaviour, which can result in risks to both human and animal wellbeing and welfare. In this paper, we, during an interdisciplinary collaboration between social computing and animal behaviour researchers, investigated whether a simple imagetagging application could improve the understanding of how people ascribe intentions and emotions to the behaviour of their domestic cats. A web-based application, Tagpuss, was developed to present casual users with photographs drawn from a database of 1631 images of domestic cats and asked them to ascribe an emotion to the cat portrayed in the image. Over five thousand people actively participated in the study in the space of four weeks, generating over 50,000 tags. Results indicate Tagpuss can be used to identify cat behaviours that lay-people find difficult to distinguish. This highlights further expert scientific exploration that focuses on educating cat owners to identify possible problems with their cat's welfare.

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Characteristics of Shelter-Relinquished Animals and Their Owners Compared With Animals and Their Owners in U.S. Pet-Owning Households

Cited by 271 publications

References 9 publications

Demographic characteristics of owned dogs and cats of Votorantim, São Paulo State, Brazil

Demographic characteristics of owned dogs and cats of Votorantim, São Paulo State, Brazil

The Association of Shelter Veterinarians’ 2016 Veterinary Medical Care Guidelines for Spay-Neuter Programs

"I Can Haz Emoshuns?"--Understanding Anthropomorphosis of Cats among Internet Users

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