Percepción de los tutores sobre el miedo a la pirotecnia de sus mascotas caninas en la ciudad de Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Abstract

The fear generated by pyrotechnics in dogs is a problem that currently continues to be ignored due to lack of information. For this reason, the present degree work aimed to evaluate the perception and posture of the guardians in the face of their pets' fear of fireworks, in addition to establishing the degree of efficacy of the most common treatments. The methodology used was a convenience and snowball sampling of 395 dog tutors in the city of Guayaquil, reaching a non-experimental descriptive and correlational scope. The instrument used was a survey divided into four sections that collected demographic information (both from the guardians and from the dogs), related to fear, the effectiveness of the treatments used and the position of the guardian regarding the problem. The data obtained were processed using descriptive statistics, representing them in pie charts. Subsequently, the chisquare and Spearman correlation tests were performed with a significance of 0.05. It is in this way that it was possible to conclude that the level of perception and the posture of the tutor depends on several factors of a sociodemographic nature as well as the intensity of fear manifested by the dogs. Regarding validity and reliability, all the items showed a CVR' of 1.00 and a Cronbach's Alpha of 0.75.