ArticlePreventive veterinary medicine2017
Demography and health of "village dogs" in rural Western Uganda.
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- Socio-economic assessment of dog population management systems: a scoping review.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Pooled it
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- Assessing the welfare of dogs surgically sterilized during single day free community pet clinics in Kampala Metropolitan area, Central Uganda.Animal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2026Article
- Prevalence of common conditions and associated mortalities of dogs treated at the small animal clinic, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.BMC veterinary research · 2024Article
- Viruses of free-roaming and hunting dogs in Uganda show elevated prevalence, richness and abundance across a gradient of contact with wildlife.The Journal of general virology · 2024Article
- "In times of stress, it is good to be with them": experience of dog owners from a rural district of Sri Lanka.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Alternative Paradigms in Animal Health Decisions: A Framework for Treating Animals Not Only as Commodities.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Animal health is often ignored, but indispensable to the human right to health.International journal for equity in health · 2022Article
- Awareness, Knowledge, and Perceptions Regarding Rabies Prevention Among Rural Communities in Masaka District, Central Uganda: A Qualitative Study.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Article
- Genetic diversity and population structure of African village dogs based on microsatellite and immunity-related molecular markers.PloS one · 2018Article
- System dynamics modelling approach to explore the effect of dog demography on rabies vaccination coverage in Africa.PloS one · 2018Article
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Abstract
"Village dogs" in developing economies are assumed to be heavily burdened by infectious disease. We followed a cohort of 61 village dogs in rural western Uganda prospectively for fifteen months to measure changes in health and demographic outcomes, and to examine risk factors for morbidity and mortality. The mean (±standard deviation) number of dogs per household was 2.4 (±2.0), of which 56.0% were male and 44.0% female. For females, average age at first estrus was 1.7 (±0.6)years with a mean litter size of 3.8 (±1.5). In the first, second and third parities, average puppy mortality per litter was 3.2 (±2.5), 2.4 (±2.1) and 3.4 (±2.9), respectively. The main causes of morbidity and mortality were infectious disease (46.1%), culling (euthanasia) by owners (30.8%), and attacks by baboons, Papio anubis (23.1%). Cox proportional hazard regression showed that a clinical diagnosis of anemia significantly predicted morbidity (HR=4.3 (95% CI: 1.1-17.8); p<0.05), and younger age significantly predicted mortality (HR=3.6 (95% CI: 1.2-10.6); p<0.05). Our results indicate that infectious disease is indeed important to the health and survival in village dogs in this setting, but that cultural practices related to ownership and interactions with wildlife also contribute substantially to morbidity and mortality.
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