Zito Sarah, Paterson Mandy, Morton John, Vanken Di, Bennett Pauleen, Rand Jacquie, Phillips Clive J C
Centre for Animal Welfare and Ethics, University of Queensland, White House Building (8134), Gatton Campus, Gatton, QLD 4343, Australia.
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4076, Australia.
Animals (Basel). 2018 Feb 7;8(2):23. doi: 10.3390/ani8020023.
The surrender of cats to animal shelters results in financial, social and moral burdens for the community. Correlations of caretaking and interactions with surrendered cats were calculated, to understand more about humans' relationships with surrendered cats and the contribution of semi-owned cats to shelter intakes. A questionnaire was used to collect detailed information about 100 surrenderers' relationships with cats they surrendered to four animal shelters in Australia, with each surrenderer classifying themselves as being either the owner or a non-owner of the surrendered cat (ownership perception). Method of acquisition of the cat, association time, closeness of the relationship with the cat and degree of responsibility for the cat's care were all associated with ownership perception. Many non-owners (59%) fed and interacted with the cat they surrendered but rarely displayed other caretaking behaviours. However, most surrenderers of owned and unowned cats were attached to and felt responsible for the cat. Based on these results and other evidence, a causal model of ownership perception was proposed to provide a better understanding of factors influencing ownership perception. This model consisted of a set of variables proposed as directly or indirectly influencing ownership perception, with connecting arrows to indicate proposed causal relationships. Understanding ownership perception and the contribution of semi-owned cats to shelter intake is important as these can inform the development of more targeted and effective intervention strategies to reduce numbers of unwanted cats.
将猫送到动物收容所会给社区带来经济、社会和道德负担。计算了照顾行为以及与被送来的猫的互动之间的相关性，以便更深入了解人类与被送来的猫的关系，以及半放养的猫对收容所收容数量的影响。通过问卷调查收集了100名送养者与他们送到澳大利亚四个动物收容所的猫之间关系的详细信息，每位送养者将自己归类为所送养猫咪的主人或非主人（所有权认知）。获取猫咪的方式、相处时间、与猫咪关系的亲密程度以及照顾猫咪的责任程度都与所有权认知有关。许多非主人（59%）会喂养并与他们送来的猫互动，但很少表现出其他照顾行为。然而，大多数送养有主和无主猫咪的人都对猫咪有感情并感到有责任。基于这些结果和其他证据，提出了一个所有权认知的因果模型，以更好地理解影响所有权认知的因素。这个模型由一组被认为直接或间接影响所有权认知的变量组成，并用连接箭头表示所提出的因果关系。了解所有权认知以及半放养的猫对收容所收容数量的影响很重要，因为这可以为制定更有针对性和有效的干预策略提供依据，以减少流浪猫的数量。
