Loving Them to Death
Blame-Displacing Strategies of Animal Shelter Workers and Surrenderers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8107719 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephanie S Frommer (Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, corresponding author), Arnold Arluke (Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-16 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Society and Animals (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1063-1119 • E-ISSN: 1568-5306 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/156853099x00121 |
| OpenAlex | W1978846281 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 6 |
This article examines how shelter workers and individuals who surrender their companion animals to shelters manage guilt about killing previously valued animals. Researchers used an ethnographic approach that entailed open-ended interviews and directobservations of workers and surrenderers in a major, metropolitan shelter. Both workers and surrenderers used blame displacement as a mechanism for dealing with their guilt over euthanasia or its possibility. Understanding this coping strategy provides insights into how society continues to relinquish animal companions-despite the animals' chances of death-as well as how shelter workers cope with killing the animals they aim to protect
Blame · Companion animal · Coping (psychology · Criminology · Ethnography · Political science · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Surrender · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Psychology · Law · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,17 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2024 (23) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |