Physical and behavioural health of dogs belonging to homeless people.

IF 1.4 4区 农林科学 Q2 VETERINARY SCIENCES Animal Welfare Pub Date : 2024-02-26 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI:10.1017/awf.2024.12
Camille King, Thomas J Smith, Kyle Kabrick, Amy Dzur, Temple Grandin
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Homeless persons with dogs are often the subject of stigma, with the public criticising them for not having a proper lifestyle to care for a pet. There is solid documentation of how dogs enhance a homeless person's life, but there are few publications that address the welfare of the dog. This descriptive study assesses the physical and behavioural health of dogs belonging to homeless persons through a One Welfare lens by observing animal/human well-being, environment, and "a life worth living". A survey was carried out along with a visual assessment of the condition of the dog for 100 human-dog dyads in the Western United States. Results showed that dogs of homeless persons were well cared for and physically healthy (which was consistent with other studies), and had few behavioural problems, but did display evidence of separation distress while the owner was away. Results from this study can provide information that may lead to policy and practice changes, including, for example, changes to policies and practices prohibiting dogs from being kept with their owner while staying at a homeless shelter. Typically, shelters report that they do not have the resources to care for a person with a dog.

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无家可归者养的狗的身体和行为健康状况。
养狗的无家可归者经常成为污名化的对象,公众批评他们没有适当的生活方式来照顾宠物。关于狗如何改善无家可归者生活的资料翔实,但很少有出版物涉及狗的福利问题。这项描述性研究从 "一个福利 "的角度,通过观察动物/人类的福祉、环境和 "有价值的生活",评估无家可归者的狗的身体和行为健康状况。研究人员对美国西部 100 对人狗组合进行了调查,并对狗的状况进行了目测评估。结果表明,无家可归者的狗得到了很好的照顾,身体健康(这与其他研究结果一致),行为问题很少,但在主人不在家时确实表现出了分离的痛苦。这项研究的结果可以为政策和做法的改变提供信息,例如,包括改变禁止狗在无家可归者收容所期间与主人在一起的政策和做法。通常情况下,收容所都表示他们没有足够的资源来照顾带狗的人。
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Animal Welfare
Animal Welfare 农林科学-动物学
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2.30
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8.30%
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43
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18-36 weeks
期刊介绍: Animal Welfare is an international scientific and technical journal. It publishes the results of peer-reviewed scientific research, technical studies and reviews relating to the welfare of kept animals (eg on farms, in laboratories, zoos and as companions) and of those in the wild whose welfare is compromised by human activities. Papers on related ethical, social, and legal issues and interdisciplinary papers will also be considered for publication. Studies that are derivative or which replicate existing publications will only be considered if they are adequately justified. Papers will only be considered if they bring new knowledge (for research papers), new perspectives (for reviews) or develop new techniques. Papers must have the potential to improve animal welfare, and the way in which they achieve this, or are likely to do so, must be clearly specified in the section on Animal welfare implications.
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