Practitioner Perspectives on Unowned Cat Management in Cyprus, Greece, and Portugal

44 practitioners across Cyprus, Greece, and Portugal provide frontline insights into unowned cat population and welfare management. The qualitative analysis, authored by Jamie L. DeLeeuw and published in April 2026, examines systemic challenges like unreliable funding, fragmented support, and weak legal frameworks. Findings reveal shared issues of overpopulation and welfare harms, alongside country-specific variations in governance and implementation.

Use Cases

• Comparative policy analysis based on country-specific legal and institutional contexts described
• Thematic coding of qualitative interview data based on practitioner-reported challenges like funding and collaboration
• Modeling systemic factors in animal welfare based on described ecological systems theory framework
• Analyzing governance frameworks based on described gaps between policy intent and implementation capacity

Strengths

• Qualitative data from 44 frontline practitioners across three countries
• Analysis grounded in Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory and a relational lens
• Explicitly compares sociopolitical and legal contexts in Cyprus, Greece, and Portugal

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Data is contained in a 672.7 KB DOCX file, indicating a limited textual scope rather than a structured dataset

Provenance

Source

Jamie L. DeLeeuw

Collection Method

Thematic and comparative analyses of semi-structured interviews

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-14 10:10:21; freshness should be verified

Geography

Cyprus, Greece, Portugal