Pub Date : 1999-03-01DOI: 10.2752/089279399787000426
Sarah Fifield, Darryl Forsyth
ABSTRACTThe demographic variables related to pet ownership in New Zealand families of 8–12 -year-olds were investigated. Questionnaire surveys were used to establish data from 312 families of primary school children. Family composition, reasons for pet acquisition, and the advantages and disadvantages of pets were also examined. Almost 90% of families owned at least one pet, and over half of these families included a child who was the sole owner of a pet. Parental employment level, living locality, and sibling status (number and position) were related to pet ownership. Parents acquired pets for their children mainly to teach responsibility and care, or because their child had asked for the pet, and these reasons were related to sibling status. Perceived advantages of pet ownership included teaching responsibility and care, love, respect and affection, and companionship. Over half the sample claimed no disadvantages of pet ownership. The most common disadvantages were finding holiday care, the time and wor...
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Pub Date : 1999-03-01DOI: 10.2752/089279399787000408
E. Natoli, M. Ferrari, Elisabetta Bolletti, D. Pontier
ABSTRACTThe aim of this study was to assess the relationships between cat lovers and feral cats in Rome. One hundred and fifty-eight cats from 3 populations were observed for 1108 hours of data collection: some demographic characteristics of the colonies were investigated, together with the behavior of cat lovers (those who fed and cared for the cats). The quantity of food eaten and uneaten by the cats was recorded, and the cost to support each colony calculated. The quantity of food provided ranged from 20.47 to 264 kg/month. The mean quantity of food eaten/day by each cat in the study areas never surpassed 130.4 g. In total, the quantity of food wasted ranged from 522 g to 34.05 kg/month. The results of this study can help public administrations decide on how to allocate funds for the management of feral cats. Indeed, they provide statistics on the individual food intake/cat/day, as well as information on the type of collaboration one should expect from cat lovers. In addition, this study outlines advan...
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Pub Date : 1999-03-01DOI: 10.2752/089279399787000417
Véronique Servais
ABSTRACTThe Autidolfijn project was undertaken in 1991 in Bruges, Belgium, to asses the effect of interactions with captive dolphins on learning in autistic children. The project lasted four years and ended with ambiguous results. Although one group of children did seem to gain learning benefits from working with the dolphins, difficulties arising from the experimental set-up itself seemed to play a role in how well the groups performed. The Autidolfijn project was intended as an experiment, but it was imperfectly controlled and consequently the data could not be used to answer directly the question of the therapeutic effect dolphins have on children with autism. Here the data generated from the project are presented as ethnographic data attached to a particular situation. It is hoped they will help researchers understand the difficulties involved in trying to assess experimentally the positive effects of animals on people (cf. Rowan, 1996; Marino and Lilienfeld 1998; Nathanson 1998).
1991年，在比利时布鲁日进行了一个名为Autidolfijn的项目，目的是评估与圈养海豚互动对自闭症儿童学习的影响。这个项目持续了四年，结果不明确。虽然一组孩子似乎确实从与海豚一起工作中获得了学习上的好处，但实验设置本身产生的困难似乎在各组的表现中起了作用。Autidolfijn项目原本是作为一个实验，但它的控制并不完美，因此数据不能用来直接回答海豚对自闭症儿童的治疗效果。在这里，从项目中产生的数据是作为附属于特定情况的人种学数据呈现的。希望它们能帮助研究人员了解在试图通过实验评估动物对人类的积极影响时所涉及的困难(参见Rowan, 1996;Marino and Lilienfeld 1998;内桑森1998)。
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Pub Date : 1999-03-01DOI: 10.2752/089279399787000471
R. Reading, B. Miller, S. Kellert
ABSTRACTPrairie dogs (Cynomys spp.) have declined drastically over the past century. Conservation of the genus will require an interdisciplinary approach, including consideration of human values and related variables. We conducted a sample survey of the values, attitudes, knowledge, and perceptions of 900 residents of Montana, USA toward prairie dogs. Sub-samples included rural residents (n=300), urban residents (n=300), ranchers (n=150), and members of conservation organizations (n=150). On average, all sample groups except members of conservation organizations displayed little regard for prairie dogs, with the level of antagonism increasing from conservation organization members to urban residents, rural residents, and finally ranchers. Still, the average respondent from each group supported maintaining some prairie dogs. Values and attitudes toward prairie dogs were linked to issues of range management, especially on public lands. Sample groups varied with respect to attitudes and perceptions toward th...
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Pub Date : 1999-03-01DOI: 10.2752/089279399787000390
Sherril L. Adkins, D. W. Rajecki
ABSTRACTA sample of 43 mothers and 21 fathers completed a retrospective survey concerning a pet's involvement in adaptation to a child's death. Measures included degree of attachment to the pet, and perceptions of the pet's helpfulness and roles in the process of grief resolution. Most parents (75%) indicated that their pet was helpful. Positive pet roles—a distraction, a comfort, a confidant—were positively correlated with degree of attachment to pet. Negative pet roles—a burden, a scapegoat—were negatively correlated with pet attachment. However, the presence of surviving siblings was negatively correlated with judgments of pet helpfulness, social support roles, and pet bonding itself.
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Pub Date : 1999-01-01DOI: 10.2752/089279399787000066
G. Rieger, D. Turner
ABSTRACTThis study investigated how depressive feelings affect the behavior of singly living persons toward their cats. Data from 47 women and 49 men, who were visited at home for one two-hour observation session, were used for the analyses. Just prior to and after the observations, participants filled out a standard questionnaire used to assess momentary mood (EWL). The mood was assigned to one of 14 sub-scales, one of which was “depressiveness.” Identical questionnaires were later completed by the same subjects in the absence of the observer (43 women, 45 men), and these results compared with those of questionnaires sent to singly living, former cat owners (28 women, three men). Five behavior elements were found to be affected by depressiveness: 1) intents to interact, 2) the starting of interactions, 3) intents, where the partner is willing to comply and interacts, and 4) head- and flank-rubbing by the cat (using multiple regression, Mann-Whitney U tests and Spearman rank correlations). Results show th...
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Pub Date : 1998-12-01DOI: 10.2752/089279398787000490
Joar Vittersø, B. Kaltenborn, T. Bjerke
ABSTRACTThe present study investigated the relationship between emotional investment and attachment to livestock among Norwegian sheep farmers, and their perception of large predators such as the wolf, bear, lynx and wolverine. Most studies on attachment have focused on infants and children. However, more recently, the effects of pet ownership on child development have received increased attention among researchers. In the current work we hypothesized that attachment to livestock would affect the attitudes towards large carnivores. Based on questionnaire data from 491 respondents, a structural equation model (SEM) was set up to test this assumption. Results showed that attachment to livestock significantly predicted attitudes toward carnivores. In particular, negative attitudes were strongly related to attachment in such a way that the deeper the attachment farmers had for livestock, the more negative were their attitudes towards the predators. This article discusses the need for a differentiation among a...
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Pub Date : 1998-12-01DOI: 10.2752/089279398787000508
R. Poresky, A. M. Daniels
ABSTRACTPet presence (ownership) and attachment interview items were appended to a statewide telephone survey of more than 1,800 adults to obtain a demographic profile of pet presence and attachment in a Midwestern state in the United States. Pet presence in the adults' households increased from 54% for the 18–25 year-olds to 71% for the 36–45 year-olds and declined to 37% for those more than 65 years old. Pet presence was associated with larger families, rural residences, family income, and marital status. In contrast, companion animal bonding scores were higher for adults in smaller families, urban residents, divorced adults, and those who mentioned a dog first when asked about their pets.
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Pub Date : 1998-12-01DOI: 10.2752/089279398787000544
T. Bjerke, Toril S. Ødegårdstuen, B. Kaltenborn
Five hundred and sixty two children and adolescents, aged between 9 and 15 years, from one urban and three rural areas in southern Norway, completed a questionnaire in which they expressed their degree of preference for various animal species. The dog, cat, horse, and rabbit were the favourite species, while the crow, worm, bee, and spider were the least liked. Girls were more positive toward horses, and were more pet-orientated than boys, while more boys than girls preferred wild animals. Younger respondents liked animals more than did 15-year-olds, with a few exceptions: the wolf, bear, and whale. Urban respondents liked animals more than rural respondents did, a finding which applied to the large carnivores in particular. Interests in wildlife decreased with increasing age, and few respondents wished to save ecologically-significant species (ants, bees, ladybirds) from extinction.
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Pub Date : 1998-12-01DOI: 10.2752/089279398787000562
Nicola Markus, J. Blackshaw
ABSTRACTA survey of volunteers involved in flying-fox rehabilitation was undertaken to determine the demographic profile of Carers, their motivations for rehabilitation and the costs incurred in the care of flying-foxes. Carers (n=119) from the east coast of Australia responded by completing a two-page questionnaire. Ninety percent of Carers were women and Carers' ages ranged from <20 to 50+ years, with a majority (60%) aged between 30–50 years. Most Carers were employed and almost 30% had professional or para-professional occupations. Carers appeared to be motivated by altruism rather than by a nurturance instinct or the desire to conserve the species. Respondents considered the time-demand of rehabilitation to be the single greatest challenge to the task, while the risk of contracting a bat-transmitted disease caused concern to 41.2% of Carers. Recruitment of new Carers occurred predominantly through contact with care groups or individual bat supporters which indicated a potential avenue for the dissemi...
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