Fielding William J, Gall Melanie, Green Dick, Eller Warren S
Planning Unit, The College of The Bahamas, New Providence, The Bahamas.
J Appl Anim Welf Sci. 2012;15(3):236-53. doi: 10.1080/10888705.2012.683760.
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.
本文报道了在太子港对狗进行的首次已知研究。对1290名居民的访谈提供了1804只狗的相关信息。超过57.7%的家庭养狗。并非所有的狗都接种了狂犬病疫苗（41.6%），尽管28.2%的家庭有家庭成员被狗咬伤过。尽管2010年1月的地震导致“有主”狗的数量减少，但流浪狗的数量似乎并未受到这场灾难的影响。鉴于64.8%的狗可能可以上街，且只有6.0%的母狗做了绝育，要人道地控制狗的数量需要圈养和绝育相结合。尽管63.3%的受访者认为流浪狗是个麻烦，但42.6%的家庭会喂养他们没有养的狗。
