Kay Aileigh, Coe Jason B, Young Ian, Pearl David
a Department of Population Medicine , University of Guelph , Guelph , Ontario , Canada.
b School of Occupational and Public Health , Ryerson University , Toronto , Ontario , Canada.
J Appl Anim Welf Sci. 2018 Oct-Dec;21(4):375-388. doi: 10.1080/10888705.2018.1436917. Epub 2018 Mar 20.
Millions of companion animals are relinquished to shelters each year. For each dog entering, their characteristics and the characteristics of the shelter holding him/her influence their time to adoption. Using a Cox proportional hazards frailty model, these issues were explored using data from 31 shelters within the British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals shelter system. Results indicated that surrender reason, age, original source, coat color, breed, human population density of the shelter location, and year the nonhuman animal entered the shelter significantly influenced time to adoption. This study identified characteristics of dogs that make them less likely to be adopted quickly. Given limited resources, these results may help inform shelters on how to best allocate resources, particularly in interventions to improve adoption rates in shelters.
每年有数以百万计的伴侣动物被送到收容所。每只进入收容所的狗，其自身特征以及收容它的收容所的特征都会影响其被领养的时间。利用考克斯比例风险脆弱模型，通过不列颠哥伦比亚防止虐待动物协会收容所系统内31个收容所的数据对这些问题进行了探究。结果表明， surrender reason（此处原文有误，可能是“送养原因”之类的正确表述）、年龄、来源地、毛色、品种、收容所所在位置的人口密度以及非人类动物进入收容所的年份对被领养时间有显著影响。这项研究确定了那些不太可能被迅速领养的狗的特征。鉴于资源有限，这些结果可能有助于告知收容所如何最佳地分配资源，特别是在提高收容所领养率的干预措施方面。
