Potcakes: Dog Ownership in New Providence, The Bahamas (New Discoveries in Human-Animal Links)
Book Details
Author(s)William J Fielding, Jane Mather
PublisherPurdue University Press
ISBN / ASIN1557533342
ISBN-139781557533340
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank4,346,502
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
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.
