[SEMCO] Oregon Sea Grant On-Line Survey on "Pet Well-Being and the Environment"

[Jeffrey M. Brodeur]

Dear Pet Owner,


Oregon State University and Oregon Sea Grant is launching a new nationwide online survey-based study on “Pet Well-Being and the Environment”. The study is conducted to learn about the motivations for pet ownership, the environment that pet owners desire for their pets, and the pet owner’s decisions on the choice, use, storage and disposal of pet pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs). The results of the study are intended for pet health professionals, public conservation agencies, pet organizations, and educators. Our results will help guide outreach strategies and options tailored to the needs of pet owners, which will enable safer use, storage, and disposal practices for PPCPs. Safer and more accessible stewardship and disposal practices for PPCPs will help to reduce the risks from PPCP misuse, accidental poisonings, abundance in our environment, and unintended impacts on aquatic life and water quality.

Pet owners in the United States and Canada are encouraged to take part in an online Institutional Review Board (IRB) approved survey to learn about pet ownership values, consumer choices, and the ways pet owners choose, store, and dispose of pet PPCPs. They estimated that it will take about 15-30-minutes to complete the survey. Individual responses to the survey will be kept anonymous. The survey is available between now through October 18th at [http://tinyurl.com/PetWellBeingandEnvironment].

If you have questions please the project principal investigator, Dr. Samuel Chan, 503-679-4828 or Samuel.chan at oregonstate.edu, Oregon Sea Grant and Fisheries and Wildlife Dept at Oregon State University. For further information on the purpose of the survey you may also visit [https://www.facebook.com/events/827139963976382/?ref=22/].


Sincerely,
Samuel Chan



Jeffrey M. Brodeur
Communications and Outreach Specialist
Woods Hole Sea Grant/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
193 Oyster Pond Rd., MS #2
Woods Hole, MA  02543
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