Behövs kattetologer på djursjukhus i Sverige?
Behaviour problems are often behaviours that cat owners don´t like, but are normal to the cat. The reason to why cat owners experience certain feline behaviours as problematic is probably due to the current practice in cat housing. The ways that cats are kept today causes somewhat of a compromise be...
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SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and Health (until 231231)
2008
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| author | Olnéus, Kajsa |
| author_browse | Olnéus, Kajsa |
| author_facet | Olnéus, Kajsa |
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| description | Behaviour problems are often behaviours that cat owners don´t like, but are normal to the cat. The reason to why cat owners experience certain feline behaviours as problematic is probably due to the current practice in cat housing. The ways that cats are kept today causes somewhat of a compromise between cat and owner and inhibits the expressions of the cat's natural and normal behaviour. The cat owners may misunderstand their cats behaviour, for example the cat owners believe that their cats perform certain behaviours because of feelings of guilt, hate, revenge or maybe to protest against something or someone. An animal hospital may help solve behaviour problems, but also help the cat owners to undstand their cat´s behaviour in an other perspective.
The aim of this study is to investigate the need of a cat ethologist in animal hospitals. To see if there is a need for this, a questionnaire was made, which was send to 7 large animal hospitals in Sweden. The questionnarie was directed to the staff who are responsible for the animal hospitals first contact with cat owners who have cats with behaviour problems. In the guestionnaire the staff had to answer questions about the first contact with the cat owners and if they would find a cat ethologist a useful asset to the staff. All animal hospitals answered that they recieved questions regarding behaviour problems in cats. From my results it seems common that cat owners ask questions about behaviour problems. In certain animal hospitals there were already staff hired with specialites in animal behaviour. In the animal hospitals where there were no one with such expertice employed who could answer behaviour guestions, all agreed upon the need of someone they could consult guestions about behvaiour, and they also felt it would be good if there were someone to whom cat owners could be refered to. |
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| institution | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences |
| language | swe Inglés |
| publishDate | 2008 |
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| spelling | RepoSLU107892017-09-13T08:18:02Z Behövs kattetologer på djursjukhus i Sverige? Is there a need for cat ethologist in animal hospitals in Sweden? Olnéus, Kajsa Katt problembeteende djursjukhus etolog Behaviour problems are often behaviours that cat owners don´t like, but are normal to the cat. The reason to why cat owners experience certain feline behaviours as problematic is probably due to the current practice in cat housing. The ways that cats are kept today causes somewhat of a compromise between cat and owner and inhibits the expressions of the cat's natural and normal behaviour. The cat owners may misunderstand their cats behaviour, for example the cat owners believe that their cats perform certain behaviours because of feelings of guilt, hate, revenge or maybe to protest against something or someone. An animal hospital may help solve behaviour problems, but also help the cat owners to undstand their cat´s behaviour in an other perspective. The aim of this study is to investigate the need of a cat ethologist in animal hospitals. To see if there is a need for this, a questionnaire was made, which was send to 7 large animal hospitals in Sweden. The questionnarie was directed to the staff who are responsible for the animal hospitals first contact with cat owners who have cats with behaviour problems. In the guestionnaire the staff had to answer questions about the first contact with the cat owners and if they would find a cat ethologist a useful asset to the staff. All animal hospitals answered that they recieved questions regarding behaviour problems in cats. From my results it seems common that cat owners ask questions about behaviour problems. In certain animal hospitals there were already staff hired with specialites in animal behaviour. In the animal hospitals where there were no one with such expertice employed who could answer behaviour guestions, all agreed upon the need of someone they could consult guestions about behvaiour, and they also felt it would be good if there were someone to whom cat owners could be refered to. Oftast är problembeteende de beteenden som kattägaren inte tycker om, men som oftast är normala för katten själv. Att kattägare upplever vissa kattbeteenden som problematiska beror ofta på hur man i dagens samhälle håller katter. Dagens sätt att hålla katter leder ofta till att det blir en kompromiss mellan kattägaren och vilka naturliga beteende katten ges möjlighet att utföra. Kattägare kan missförstå sin katts beteende, exempelvis kan de anta att deras katt utför vissa beteenden på grund av skuld, hat, hämnd eller för att protestera. På ett djursjukhus skulle man kunna hjälpa till att lösa problembeteenden, men också få kattägarna att betrakta sin katts beteende från ett annat perspektiv. Syftet med denna studien är att undersöka om det finns ett behov av att ha tillgång till en kattetolog på djursjukhus. För att undersöka detta behov gjordes en enkätstudie som skickades till 7 större djursjukhus. Enkäten var riktad till personalen som får den första kontakten med kattägare som har katter med problembeteende. De fick svara på frågor om vad som händer vid första kontakten och om de tycker att de skulle vara bra om det fanns etologer på djursjukhus. Alla djursjukhusen svarade att de får frågor om problembeteende hos katt, samt att det verkade som det vara vanligt förekommande att kattägare frågade om problembeteende. På vissa djursjukhus fanns redan personal som hade specialiserat sig på djurs beteende. De djursjukhus där det inte fanns någon att rådfråga om beteende tyckte alla att det vore bra om det fanns någon som de kunde rådfråga kring beteendefrågor. De tyckte också att det vore bra om det fanns någon som man kunde hänvisa kattägarna vidare till. SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and Health (until 231231) 2008 L3 swe eng https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/10789/ |
| spellingShingle | Katt problembeteende djursjukhus etolog Olnéus, Kajsa Behövs kattetologer på djursjukhus i Sverige? |
| title | Behövs kattetologer på djursjukhus i Sverige? |
| title_full | Behövs kattetologer på djursjukhus i Sverige? |
| title_fullStr | Behövs kattetologer på djursjukhus i Sverige? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Behövs kattetologer på djursjukhus i Sverige? |
| title_short | Behövs kattetologer på djursjukhus i Sverige? |
| title_sort | behövs kattetologer på djursjukhus i sverige? |
| topic | Katt problembeteende djursjukhus etolog |