Understanding the associations between owner and pet demographics on pet body condition among those experiencing homelessness and housing vulnerability in Canada

French, Shawn; Pearl, David L.; Lem, Michelle; Kilborn, Susan H.; Donnelly, Blánaid; Slater, Margaret R.

doi:10.1016/j.prevetmed.2021.105454

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“…1,19 Somewhat similar to SVO's model, a Canadian organization uses what it calls a "One Health Model" to provide free veterinary services when those who are unhoused attend one of their human health and services sites. 19 Although the study focused on the health of the animal companions and not necessarily the health of the pet owners, the One Health model has been successfully expanded to numerous communities in Canada. 19 The gap, however, is in how decisions are made about what kind of human services are offered, often based on assumptions and convenience.…”

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“…The Gap: Creating a Data-Driven Analysis Addressing pet needs to create a trusting relationship with pet owners opens the door for owners to seek out resources for their own health and wellbeing. 3,7,19 A successful model for encouraging this behavior and removing barriers to care has been for veterinary services to partner with human services and colocate to provide owner care without risking the pet's safety. 1,19 Somewhat similar to SVO's model, a Canadian organization uses what it calls a "One Health Model" to provide free veterinary services when those who are unhoused attend one of their human health and services sites.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…3,7,19 A successful model for encouraging this behavior and removing barriers to care has been for veterinary services to partner with human services and colocate to provide owner care without risking the pet's safety. 1,19 Somewhat similar to SVO's model, a Canadian organization uses what it calls a "One Health Model" to provide free veterinary services when those who are unhoused attend one of their human health and services sites. 19 Although the study focused on the health of the animal companions and not necessarily the health of the pet owners, the One Health model has been successfully expanded to numerous communities in Canada.…”

Section: Bene Ts and Barriers Of Animal Companions For Those Who Are ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…19 Although the study focused on the health of the animal companions and not necessarily the health of the pet owners, the One Health model has been successfully expanded to numerous communities in Canada. 19 The gap, however, is in how decisions are made about what kind of human services are offered, often based on assumptions and convenience. Using data to identify client needs offers an evidence-based approach to improving the quality of how to choose human care service partners.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Creating Evidence Driven Practices to Enhance Human Care Services for Unhoused and Low-Income Pet Owners

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Ekstrom²,

Kalaf³

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Background: Seattle Veterinary Outreach, a nonprofit organization providing free and sliding scale veterinary services to those experiencing homelessness and low-income residents of the Seattle Washington Puget Sound area, began operations in 2019. A key premise of the organization is that offering veterinary services creates a trusting relationship with pet owners that fosters guiding human clients toward obtaining services for their own health and wellbeing.1 Pet owners face significant barriers to obtaining care for themselves due to the lack of pet-friendly housing, shelter, and medical care clinics.2Methods: To support this vision, SVO partners with human care service providers to co-locate, allowing for pet-friendly access to needed services. Up until now, the decision about partners has been made based on immediate needs, circumstances, and availability. The purpose of this study was to develop a data-driven process that would assist in identifying the type of human care services needed, create a ranking system to assist in securing these services, and identify partners that can co-locate with SVO mobile clinics to address human care needs. Relying on data collected by SVO staff and volunteers and incorporating attributes of potential partners into the discussion, a data-driven process for partner outreach was created. Results: A new process was created that is currently in use and will be incorporated into staff responsibilities.Conclusion: The new process offers an opportunity to ensure that the needs of pet owners are being best served.

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Section: Bene Ts and Barriers Of Animal Companions For Those Who Are ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Bene Ts and Barriers Of Animal Companions For Those Who Are ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Creating Evidence Driven Practices to Enhance Human Care Services for Unhoused and Low-Income Pet Owners

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Ekstrom²,

Kalaf³

et al. 2022

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“…Public perception of pet ownership in the unhoused population tends to be negative (Irvine et al, 2012), despite recent evidence suggesting that unhoused pets are in similar health conditions as housed pets (French et al, 2021). Many shelters and affordable housing units prohibit pets (Gravinatti et al, 2017; Wusinich et al, 2019), yet one study found that 93–96% of unhoused pet owners would not accept housing if their pets were not allowed (Singer et al, 1995).…”

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Benefits, companion animal zoonotic disease prevalence and public perceptions of pet ownership among people experiencing homelessness in northern California

Conway

Jasuja

Hauser

et al. 2022

Zoonoses and Public Health

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Homelessness is a growing epidemic in the United States, with the highest percentage of insecure housing in California (Baiocchi et al., 2019;Housing and Urban Development, 2019). However, counts often underrepresent homelessness, and the COVID-19 pandemic will worsen the homelessness epidemic over the next few years (Flaming et al., 2021). As up to 25% of unhoused individuals own pets (Rhoades et al., 2015), increased homelessness also increases unhoused pets. Societal, economic and medical impacts of pet ownership among homeless are complex and warrant study as part of efforts to address homelessness and animal welfare.Research strongly supports benefits of companion animals to individuals experiencing homelessness, such as improved mental health,

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The everyday work of One Welfare in animal sheltering and protection

Koralesky

Rankin

Fraser

2022

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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In animal sheltering and protection, One Welfare initiatives include supporting people who have difficulty providing for their animals because of limitations in their physical or mental health, income or housing. However, little research has focused on the actual work that such initiatives involve for animal shelter staff and animal protection officers. We used institutional ethnography to explore how such work activities occur in frontline practices and to better understand how this work is coordinated. Methods included ethnographic observation of animal protection officers and animal shelter staff, document analysis, plus focus groups and interviews with staff, officers and managers. In cases where an animal’s care was deficient but did not meet the standard for legal intervention, officers provided people with supplies for their animals, referred them to low-cost or free veterinary care, and provided emergency animal boarding. This work was time-consuming and was sometimes done repeatedly without lasting effect. It was often constrained by animal owners’ limited housing, cognitive decline, mental health and other factors. Hence, improving the animal’s welfare in these ways was often difficult and uncertain. Although officers and animal shelter staff are increasingly expected to provide and record supports given to vulnerable owners, standard procedures and criteria for intervention have not yet evolved; hence the work is largely left to the judgement and ingenuity of personnel. In addition, the necessary collaboration between animal welfare workers and human social services staff (e.g. social workers, supportive-housing staff) is made difficult by the different expectations and different institutional processes governing such activities. Further work is needed to assess how meeting the needs of both animals and people could be strengthened in challenging situations. This might include sharing best practices among officers and further ethnographic analysis of animal protection services, how they interact with other services, and how One Welfare initiatives actually affect animal care. Institutional ethnography provides a way to study the organisational processes that shape and constrain care for animals, and its explicit focus on actual work processes provides insights that may be missed by other approaches.

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Understanding the associations between owner and pet demographics on pet body condition among those experiencing homelessness and housing vulnerability in Canada

Cited by 10 publications

References 56 publications

Creating Evidence Driven Practices to Enhance Human Care Services for Unhoused and Low-Income Pet Owners

Creating Evidence Driven Practices to Enhance Human Care Services for Unhoused and Low-Income Pet Owners

Benefits, companion animal zoonotic disease prevalence and public perceptions of pet ownership among people experiencing homelessness in northern California

The everyday work of One Welfare in animal sheltering and protection

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