Cultural Attitudes Towards Pets

Brown, Donna B.

doi:10.1016/s0195-5616(85)50303-4

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“…Reasons for keeping or tolerating dogs vary across societies and may involve aspects of security, companionship, transport, food acquisition or religious beliefs [ 1 ]. Whilst broad cultural patterns in human-dog relationships can be defined [ 2 - 4 ], within these trends there remains considerable variation between individual social units (e.g. families or households) in attitudes towards and associations with dogs [ 5 - 8 ].…”

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A cross-sectional study of factors associated with dog ownership in Tanzania

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Background: Mass vaccination of owned domestic dogs is crucial for the control of rabies in subSaharan Africa. Knowledge of the proportion of households which own dogs, and of the factors associated with dog ownership, is important for the planning and implementation of rabies awareness and dog vaccination programmes, and for the promotion of responsible dog ownership. This paper reports the results of a cross-sectional study of dog ownership by households in urban and rural communities in the United Republic of Tanzania.

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“…The pattern of exchanges and adaptations of specialized human and animal technologies also hints at the differences in value accorded animals within biomedical research and orthopedic practice. As human and veterinary orthopedists developed interchangeable fracture care technologies for humans and animals, some animals were valued individually within irreplaceable human-animal relationships (Brown 1985), whereas others were perceived as ethically appropriate and affordable surgical models to test out technologies before they were applied to humans (Michell 2000). A much more detailed study of the discourse that surrounds animal experimentation in veterinary fracture care is required, but it seems probable that concepts such as control, efficiency, and function are commonly utilized to bridge the disjunction in the value accorded orthopedic animal models and the negotiated value of individual animal patients.…”

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2007

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At the beginning of the twentieth century, human and veterinary surgeons faced the challenge of a medical marketplace transformed by technology. The socioeconomic value ascribed to their patients was changing, reflecting the increasing mechanization of industry and the decreasing dependence of society on nonhuman animals for labor. In human medicine, concern for the economic consequences of fractures “pathologized” any significant level of posttherapeutic disability, a productivist perspective contrary to the traditional corpus of medical values. In contrast, veterinarians adapted to the mechanization of horsepower by shifting their primary professional interest to companion animals; a type of patient generally valued for the unique emotional attachment of the owner and not their productive capacity. The economic rationalization of human fracture care and the “sentimental” transformation of veterinary orthopedic expertise indicate how these specialists utilized increasingly convergent rhetorical arguments to justify the application of innovative fracture care technologies to their human and animal patients.

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“…Furthermore, cultural and geographical factors may also influence the impact of pet ownership on human well-being, for example, the choice of pets, purpose and role of the pet and how they are cared for. 37,38 The aim of this study was to use qualitative methods with a Brazilian sample of dog owners to generate a thematic framework of the main DHRA reported to impact on human well-being and examine its consistency with the results previously obtained from British dog owners. 30 We hypothesised that the overall themes of DHRA and associated well-being outcomes would be similar for the two culturally different samples, but constituent activities might show more variability.…”

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Dog-related activities and human well-being in Brazilian dog owners: A framework and cross-cultural comparison with a British study

2021

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Despite the abundance of studies investigating the benefits of having a dog, the specific aspects of dog ownership that impacts human well-being are not well understood. This study used a qualitative approach to create a framework of the main dog-related activities perceived by Brazilian owners to impact their well-being and compared the findings with those of a similar study in England. Thirty-two Brazilian dog owners from the five regions of the country were remotely interviewed. The thematic analysis of the transcripts generated a total of 58 dog-related activities, organised into 13 themes. Most activities were reported to have a positive effect on participants’ well-being, accounting for 76.8% of the total number of mentions in the interviews. ‘Playing with dog’ and ‘Dog presence’ were the themes most frequently associated with positive well-being outcomes, whereas ‘Unwanted behaviours’ and ‘Failing to meet dog's needs’ were the most commonly associated with negative outcomes. The dog-related activities reported by Brazilian dog owners and the well-being outcomes linked to those activities were consistent with the previous British sample in the framework that emerged. These findings suggest reliability between the two methods used to gather data (remote interview versus focus group) and, most importantly, provide consistent cross-cultural evidence for how certain activities impact dog owner’s well-being.

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Cultural Attitudes Towards Pets

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A cross-sectional study of factors associated with dog ownership in Tanzania

A cross-sectional study of factors associated with dog ownership in Tanzania

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Dog-related activities and human well-being in Brazilian dog owners: A framework and cross-cultural comparison with a British study

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