Convivencia con animales de compañía en la cultura contemporánea: necesidades físicas que los custodios reconocen, tienen los animales de compañía, en Guayaquil-Ecuador (2019)

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify the physical needs that the custodians recognize companion animals have in Guayaquil, Ecuador 2019. In order to achieve the objective, a quantitative methodology was used using the survey tool to a sample of 1054 custodians with children between 5 and 12 years, who have at least one pet in the home (dog or cat), in which they have to respond if they agreed or disagreed with the needs determined as a Likert scale, being 1 totally disagree and 5 strongly agree. Among the results obtained, it was showed that there is an average of 4,05 over 5 among the presented variables, for which only two of them were below the average. Therefore, it is concluded that the custodians of cats and dogs in Guayaquil, recognize most of the physical needs that pets have in contemporary culture; being the importance of keeping the pet and its environment clean daily, the most recognized physical need.