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Underdogs - Pets, People, and Poverty (Hardcover)
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Underdogs - Pets, People, and Poverty (Hardcover)
Series: Animal Voices / Animal Worlds Series
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Underdogs looks into the rapidly growing initiative to provide
veterinary care to underserved communities in North Carolina and
Costa Rica and how those living in or near poverty respond to these
forms of care. For many years, the primary focus of the humane
community in the United States was to control animal overpopulation
and alleviate the stray dog problem by euthanizing or sterilizing
dogs and cats. These efforts succeeded by the turn of the century,
and it appeared as though most pets were being sterilized and given
at least basic veterinary care, including vaccinations and
treatments for medical problems such as worms or mange. However, in
recent years animal activists and veterinarians have acknowledged
that these efforts only reached pet owners in advantaged
communities, leaving over twenty million pets unsterilized,
unvaccinated, and untreated in underserved communities. The problem
of getting basic veterinary services to dogs and cats in low-income
communities has suddenly become spotlighted as a major issue facing
animal shelters, animal rescue groups, animal control departments,
and veterinarians in the United States and abroad. In the past five
to ten years, animal protection organizations have launched a new
focus trying to deliver basic and even more advanced veterinary
care to the many underserved pets in the Unites States. These
efforts pose a challenge to these groups as does pet keeping to
people living in poverty across most of the world who have pets or
care for street dogs.
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