Verbeek Peter, Majure Chase Alan, Quattrochi Laura, Turner Stephen James
Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 402 10th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35294-1241, USA.
Animals (Basel). 2024 Jul 5;14(13):1985. doi: 10.3390/ani14131985.
The close bond that can exist between humans and their dogs is an important aspect of the evolutionary, economic, and social connections between the two species. There is a need for a better understanding of the place of the dog within the human-dog bond and on ways the human-dog bond affects dog welfare. We conducted a scoping review to investigate to what extent and in what ways dog welfare is addressed in the research literature on the human-dog bond. We identified 706 publications on the human-dog bond from across the globe that were published from 2012 to 2023. We found that 246 of these 706 publications had a focus on dog welfare. Our review showed that the interplay of characteristics and backgrounds of owners/handlers and their dogs was linked to dog welfare in multiple, both positive and negative, ways. Our review is limited by the fact that most of the research that we reviewed involved pet dogs and in majority came from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic (WEIRD) societies. There is a need for a better understanding of how the human-dog bond affects the welfare of working, assistance, and service dogs.
人类与他们的狗之间可能存在的紧密联系是这两个物种在进化、经济和社会方面联系的一个重要方面。有必要更好地理解狗在人犬关系中的地位，以及人犬关系影响狗福利的方式。我们进行了一项范围综述，以调查在关于人犬关系的研究文献中，狗福利在何种程度上以及以何种方式得到探讨。我们从全球范围内筛选出了2012年至2023年发表的706篇关于人犬关系的出版物。我们发现，这706篇出版物中有246篇关注狗福利。我们的综述表明，主人/饲养者及其狗的特征和背景之间的相互作用以多种积极和消极的方式与狗福利相关联。我们的综述存在局限性，因为我们所审查的大多数研究涉及宠物狗，并且大部分来自西方、受过教育、工业化、富裕、民主（WEIRD）社会。有必要更好地理解人犬关系如何影响工作犬、辅助犬和服务犬的福利。
