The pandemic has brought an increased awareness of the existing interconnections between humans, animals and the planet. It has released a well-known concept from academia, the “One Health”, which emphasises the interdependencies between human, animal and environmental health, complementary to “One Welfare”, that integrates animal welfare and human well-being as directly affecting each other. These interconnections have become obvious with the health emergency, whose effects on humans have directly affected animals. The pandemic containment measures have caused devastating effects on human psychology. Most of the world’s population was in social isolation leading to a general decrease in psychological well-being. In this context, dogs are playing a fundamental role in recovery helping people decrease anxiety, depression and loneliness. Since the early 2020, the number of dog adoptions in Italy has soared, accelerating an already growing trend, with the consequent explosion of the dog care market. Human–dog Bond is a beneficial relationship that improves both humans’ and dogs’ quality of life. It creates mutual emotional dependence which involves increased trust of the dog and caring of the dogs’ needs of the human. Unfortunately, many of the dogs that were adopted during the pandemic were afterwards abandoned or renounced. Indeed, after the initial race for adoptions there was a record of dog renunciations with a quarter of the dogs being adopted at the beginning of 2020 back to shelters. The reasons that are pushing people to give up their dogs are many, from the economic crisis, to hospitalizations, to the fear of being infected. Above all, there is a general lack of awareness and the complementary need for continuous professional support and guidance during the adoption process and beyond. In this framework it arises the opportunity to design a service with the aim of holistically supporting the whole process of adoption of dogs, based on professional and systemic collaboration and focused on the mutual needs of dogs and their owners; which strengthens the human-dog bond, bases it on good practices and improves the mutual health and welfare.
La pandemia ha portato una maggiore consapevolezza delle interconnessioni esistenti tra gli esseri umani, animali e pianeta. Ha reso di dominio pubblico il concetto della “Salute Unica”, la quale sottolinea l’interdipendenza tra la salute umana, animale e del pianeta, e complementare al “benessere unico”, il quale integra il benessere animale e umano come direttamente influenzati l’uno dall’altro. Queste interconnessioni sono diventate evidenti con l'emergenza sanitaria, i cui effetti sugli esseri umani hanno colpito direttamente gli animali. Le misure di contenimento della pandemia hanno infatti causato effetti devastanti sulla psicologia umana; la maggior parte della popolazione mondiale era in isolamento sociale portando ad un peggioramento del benessere psicologico. In questo contesto, i cani stanno giocando un ruolo fondamentale aiutando le persone a stare meglio. Dall'inizio della pandemia, il numero di adozioni di cani in Italia è aumentato moltissimo, accelerando un processo già in crescita da anni e la conseguente esplosione del mercato della cura del cane. Il legame Uomo-Cane è una relazione benefica che migliora la qualità della vita di entrambi, crea reciproca dipendenza emotiva che comporta una maggiore fiducia e cura reciproca. Purtroppo, molti dei cani adottati durante la pandemia sono stati in seguito abbandonati o rinunciati. Dopo la gara iniziale per le adozioni c'è stato un record di rinunce con un quarto dei cani che sono stati adottati all'inizio del 2020 di nuovo nei rifugi. Le ragioni che spingono le persone a rinunciare ai propri cani sono molte, tra le quali spicca la generale mancanza di consapevolezza e il bisogno complementare di supporto e guida professionale continuativa durante tutto il processo di adozione e oltre. In questo quadro nasce l'opportunità di sviluppare un servizio che abbia come obiettivo quello di supportare olisticamente l'intero processo di adozione dei cani, basato sulla collaborazione professionale, sistemica e focalizzato sui bisogni reciproci dei cani e dei loro proprietari, rafforzando il loro legame, insegnando giusti principi e pratiche, e migliorando il benessere e la salute reciproca.
Dogtion. A service for collaborative dog adoptions to improve human-dog bonds and their mutual health and welfare
Teli, Emma
2020/2021
Abstract
The pandemic has brought an increased awareness of the existing interconnections between humans, animals and the planet. It has released a well-known concept from academia, the “One Health”, which emphasises the interdependencies between human, animal and environmental health, complementary to “One Welfare”, that integrates animal welfare and human well-being as directly affecting each other. These interconnections have become obvious with the health emergency, whose effects on humans have directly affected animals. The pandemic containment measures have caused devastating effects on human psychology. Most of the world’s population was in social isolation leading to a general decrease in psychological well-being. In this context, dogs are playing a fundamental role in recovery helping people decrease anxiety, depression and loneliness. Since the early 2020, the number of dog adoptions in Italy has soared, accelerating an already growing trend, with the consequent explosion of the dog care market. Human–dog Bond is a beneficial relationship that improves both humans’ and dogs’ quality of life. It creates mutual emotional dependence which involves increased trust of the dog and caring of the dogs’ needs of the human. Unfortunately, many of the dogs that were adopted during the pandemic were afterwards abandoned or renounced. Indeed, after the initial race for adoptions there was a record of dog renunciations with a quarter of the dogs being adopted at the beginning of 2020 back to shelters. The reasons that are pushing people to give up their dogs are many, from the economic crisis, to hospitalizations, to the fear of being infected. Above all, there is a general lack of awareness and the complementary need for continuous professional support and guidance during the adoption process and beyond. In this framework it arises the opportunity to design a service with the aim of holistically supporting the whole process of adoption of dogs, based on professional and systemic collaboration and focused on the mutual needs of dogs and their owners; which strengthens the human-dog bond, bases it on good practices and improves the mutual health and welfare.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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