@article{ref1,
title="Care of dogs and attitudes of dog owners in Port-au-Prince, the Republic of Haiti",
journal="Journal of applied animal welfare science",
year="2012",
author="Fielding, William J. and Gall, Melanie and Green, Dick and Eller, Warren S.",
volume="15",
number="3",
pages="236-253",
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 &quot;owned&quot; 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<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1088-8705",
doi="10.1080/10888705.2012.683760",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10888705.2012.683760"
}