Bir Courtney, Ortez Mario, Olynk Widmar Nicole J, Wolf Christopher A, Hansen Charlotte, Ouedraogo Frederic B
Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA.
Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
Animals (Basel). 2020 Mar 13;10(3):483. doi: 10.3390/ani10030483.
Pet ownership, veterinary use, and beliefs regarding veterinary care were elicited through the use of a nationally representative survey of 997 U.S. residents. Fifty-one percent of respondents have or had a dog in the past five years and 37% have or had a cat in the past five years. Over ninety percent of cat and dog owners had visited a veterinarian at any time, but only about 40% visited a veterinarian annually. With the rise of options in veterinary medicine, including low-cost options for vaccines and spay/neuter, further study and analysis of pet-owners use of veterinary care is warranted. Fifty-four percent of dog owners and 40% of cat owners who went to a low-cost spay/neuter clinic also went to a veterinarian/clinic/practice. This finding suggests that pet-owners who use low-cost options do so in a manner that supplements rather than replaces traditional veterinary care. Logit models were employed to evaluate the relationship between dog and cat owner demographics and visiting a veterinarian. The probability of visiting a veterinarian increased with age and income for dog owners.
通过对997名美国居民进行具有全国代表性的调查，了解了宠物饲养情况、兽医服务使用情况以及对兽医护理的看法。51%的受访者在过去五年内拥有或曾经拥有过狗，37%的受访者在过去五年内拥有或曾经拥有过猫。超过90%的猫和狗主人曾在任何时候拜访过兽医，但每年拜访兽医的人只有约40%。随着兽医医学选择的增加，包括疫苗和绝育的低成本选择，有必要对宠物主人使用兽医护理的情况进行进一步研究和分析。前往低成本绝育诊所的狗主人中有54%，猫主人中有40%也会去兽医诊所/机构/执业处。这一发现表明，使用低成本选择的宠物主人这样做的方式是作为传统兽医护理的补充，而非替代。采用逻辑模型来评估狗和猫主人的人口统计学特征与拜访兽医之间的关系。狗主人拜访兽医的概率随着年龄和收入的增加而上升。
