Modeling Interventions in the Owned Cat Population to Decrease Numbers, Knox County, TN

被引：4

作者：

Lancaster, Evan P. ^{[1
]}

Lenhart, Suzanne ^{[2
,3
]}

Ojogbo, Ejebagom J. ^{[4
]}

Rekant, Steven I. ^{[5
]}

Scott, Janelle R. ^{[6
]}

Weimer, Heidi

New, John C., Jr. ^{[7
]}

机构：

[1] Middle Tennessee State Univ, Dept Math, Murfreesboro, TN 37130 USA

[2] Univ Tennessee, Dept Math, 227 Ayres Hall,1403 Circle Dr, Knoxville, TN 37996 USA

[3] Univ Tennessee, Natl Inst Math & Biol Synth, Knoxville, TN USA

[4] Fisk Univ, Math & Comp Sci, Nashville, TN USA

[5] ARS, Foreign Anim Dis Res Unit, USDA, Plum Isl Anim Dis Ctr, Greenport, NY USA

[6] Schuyler Vet Clin, Schuyler, NE USA

[7] Univ Tennessee, Dept Biomed & Diagnost Sci, Knoxville, TN USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF APPLIED ANIMAL WELFARE SCIENCE | 2016年 / 19卷 / 04期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

Owned cat population; spay strategies; mathematical model; TRAP-NEUTER-RETURN; FREE-ROAMING CATS; EUTHANASIA; OVERPOPULATION; PROGRAMS; SURVIVAL; SHELTERS;

D O I：

10.1080/10888705.2016.1176923

中图分类号：

S85 [动物医学（兽医学）];

学科分类号：

0906 ;

摘要：

To find management strategies for controlling the owned cat population in Knox County, TN, the authors formulated a mathematical model using biological properties of such nonhuman animals and spay actions on certain age classes. They constructed this discrete-time model to predict the future owned cat population in this county and to evaluate intervention strategies to surgically sterilize some proportion of the population. Using the predicted population size and the number of surgeries for specific scenarios, they showed that focusing on specific age classes can be an effective feature in spay programs.

引用

页码：396 / 407

页数：12