title: Care of dogs and attitudes of dog owners in Port-au-Prince, the Republic of Haiti.
abstract: This article reports the first known study on dogs in Port-au-Prince. Interviews with 1,290 residents provided information on 1,804 dogs. More than 57.7% of homes kept dogs. Not all the dogs received vaccinations for rabies (41.6%), even though 28.2% of households had had a household member bitten by a dog. Although the "owned" dog population had decreased as a result of the earthquake in January 2010, the number of roaming dogs appeared to have been uninfluenced by the disaster. Given that 64.8% of dogs probably had access to the street and only 6.0% of the females were spayed, to humanely contain the dog population will require both confinement and neutering. Although roaming dogs were considered a nuisance by 63.3% of respondents, 42.6% of households fed dogs they did not own.
authors: Planning Unit, The College of The Bahamas, New Providence, The Bahamas. wfru@hotmail.com
authors: William J
authors: WJ
authors: Fielding
authors: Melanie
authors: M
authors: Gall
authors: Dick
authors: D
authors: Green
authors: Warren S
authors: WS
authors: Eller
mesh_terms: D000827:Animal Welfare / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000818:Animals; D001290:Attitude; D001733:Bites and Stings / Q000453:epidemiology; D003625:Data Collection; D004190:Disasters; D004285:Dogs; D055866:Earthquakes; D005260:Female; D006205:Haiti; D008297:Male; D057805:Pets; D011818:Rabies / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000662:veterinary