Citation

Fielding WJ, Gall M, Green D, Eller WS. J. Appl. Anim. Welf. Sci. 2012; 15(3): 236-253.

Affiliation

Planning Unit, The College of The Bahamas, New Providence, The Bahamas. wfru@hotmail.com

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/10888705.2012.683760

PMID

22742200

Abstract

This article reports the first known study on dogs in Port-au-Prince. Interviews with 1,290 residents provided information on 1,804 dogs. More than 57.7% of homes kept dogs. Not all the dogs received vaccinations for rabies (41.6%), even though 28.2% of households had had a household member bitten by a dog. Although the "owned" dog population had decreased as a result of the earthquake in January 2010, the number of roaming dogs appeared to have been uninfluenced by the disaster. Given that 64.8% of dogs probably had access to the street and only 6.0% of the females were spayed, to humanely contain the dog population will require both confinement and neutering. Although roaming dogs were considered a nuisance by 63.3% of respondents, 42.6% of households fed dogs they did not own.

Keywords: Animal Bites; Dog Bites

Language: en