Development of a scale to measure responsible ownership practices of dog owners
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responsible ownership, companion dog, owner, guardianAbstract
In the literature, the multiple benefits of having a pet have been studied. However, in certain countries, successful levels of application of responsible ownership management have not yet been achieved. There are still no validated tools to assess the levels of responsible ownership of these animals, which makes it difficult to understand and address this problem. The objective of this research was to develop a valid measurement tool for the responsible ownership practices of dog guardians towards their animals. For this, an online questionnaire was applied to 1,281 dog owners in Chile. To validate the questionnaire, a reliability analysis was performed with the sample of 1065 participants. It has been proven that Cronbach's alpha coefficient is 0.651. It has been shown that this tool can be used to evaluate responsible dog keeping practices, since it has an acceptable internal consistency for these types of variables.
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