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UC DAVIS STUDY, PUB MED, RELATED TO SURVEY OF 66 HOMELESS PETOWNERS DONE AND PUBLISHED IN 1995.
Text Version PubMed Services Journals Database MeSH Database Single Citation Matcher Batch Citation Matcher Clinical Queries LinkOut Cubby Related Resources Order Documents NLM Gateway TOXNET Consumer Health Show: 1: Psychol Rep. 1995 Dec; 77(3 Pt 1): 851-7. Related Articles, Links Dilemmas associated with rehousing homeless people who have companion animals. Singer RS, Hart LA, Zasloff RL. Center for Animals in Society, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis 95616, USA.
66 individuals were given a questionnaire during the initial visit to a veterinary clinic for homeless pet owners. Among the 35 men and 31 women, 32 had been homeless for 6 mo. or less and were termed the acutely homeless subgroup, and 34 had been homeless multiple times or for more than 6 mo. and were termed the chronically homeless subgroup. In responding to the Lexington Attachment to Pets Scale, both men and women participants had significantly higher mean scores on attachment to their pets than did the scale's standardization population. Participants did not differ from the normative sample of adults on the Beck Hopelessness Scale.
Both men and women participants stated a preference for being rehoused. 93% of men and 96% of women said that housing would not be acceptable if pets were not allowed. 61% of the men and 33% of the women stated they would be willing to live anywhere pets were allowed except in a shelter. Reluctance to live in a shelter was significantly greater among chronically homeless men than other subgroups, and they also had low desire to be rehoused. A majority of the participants had been refused housing because they had pets. Attempts to rehouse homeless individuals who have pets are likely to be unsuccessful unless accommodation for pets is included. PMID: 8559923 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Show: Write to the Help Desk NCBI | NLM | NIH Department of Health & Human Services Freedom of Information Act | Disclaimer Jan 14 2004 16:08:52
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