Title Potcakes : dog ownership in New Providence, the Bahamas / William J. Fielding, Jane Mather, Maurice Isaacs

Published West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 191 pages) : illustrations Series New directions in the human-animal bond New directions in the human-animal bond. Summary Annotation The dog population in the Bahamas consists mainly of mongrels, called "Potcakes," a term unique to the greater Bahamas archipelago. Potcakes provides the first systematic study of dog ownership in a Caribbean society by investigating the Bahamian perceptions of "pet" and "responsible pet ownership" in the context of both dog overpopulation concerns and how "image" dogs like Rottweilers and Pit Bulls have interacted with and altered the Potcake population Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (149-184) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Dogs -- Bahamas -- New Providence Island Dogs -- Social aspects -- Bahamas -- New Providence Island Dog owners -- Bahamas -- New Providence Island Human-animal relationships -- Bahamas -- New Providence Island PETS -- Dogs -- General. Dog owners Dogs Dogs -- Social aspects Human-animal relationships Bahamas -- New Providence Island Form Electronic book Author Mather, Jane Isaacs, Maurice LC no. 2004021845 ISBN 1423732308 9781423732303

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