Janke Natasha, Berke Olaf, Klement Eyal, Flockhart D T Tyler, Coe Jason, Bateman Shane
a Department of Population Medicine , University of Guelph , Guelph , Ontario , Canada.
b Koret School of Veterinary Medicine , The Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Jerusalem , Israel.
J Appl Anim Welf Sci. 2018 Jul-Sep;21(3):283-294. doi: 10.1080/10888705.2017.1414607. Epub 2018 Jan 4.
In recent years, there has been a growing concern regarding populations of cats who are homeless. Shelters are constantly overwhelmed by the influx of cats without caregivers and are seeking solutions to enhance positive outcomes for them. In 2014, the Guelph Humane Society implemented a population management program to expedite the movement of cats through the shelter by decreasing the average nonhuman animal's length of stay using scheduled intakes to control for overcrowding and by implementing strategies to increase adoption rates. This study investigated the time trends in admission rates of cats to the Guelph Humane Society to assess the effectiveness of a population management program called Capacity for Care using a generalized linear autoregressive moving average model. From January 2011 to December 2015, a total of 3295 live cats were admitted to the Guelph Humane Society. When the analysis was adjusted to account for admissions of kittens, there was a significant reduction in admissions for adult cats (p < .01) following the introduction of the population management program. The results also showed a strong seasonal peak in total admissions during the summer months.
近年来，人们对流浪猫群体的关注日益增加。收容所不断被无照料者的猫咪涌入所淹没，正在寻求解决方案以改善它们的积极结局。2014年，圭尔夫人道协会实施了一项种群管理计划，通过使用定期收容来控制过度拥挤以减少平均非人类动物的停留时间，并通过实施提高收养率的策略，加快猫咪在收容所的流转速度。本研究使用广义线性自回归移动平均模型，调查了猫咪进入圭尔夫人道协会的收容率的时间趋势，以评估一项名为“照料能力”的种群管理计划的有效性。2011年1月至2015年12月，共有3295只活猫被收容进圭尔夫人道协会。在对分析进行调整以考虑小猫的收容情况后，种群管理计划实施后成年猫的收容数量显著减少（p < 0.01）。结果还显示，夏季总收容数量出现强烈的季节性峰值。
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