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  1. The Pet Attitude Scale

    Contributor(s): D.I. Templer, H. Arikawa

  2. Short-Term Interventions That Accomplish Humane Education Goals: An International Review of the Research Literature

    Contributor(s): Virginio Aguirre, Agustín Orihuela

  3. Exploring the Role of Playfulness with Canine Companions in Coping with Stress: How Men Are Impacted by Human–Animal Interaction Through Calling on a Memory of Play

    Contributor(s): Mary Harlinger, Chris Blazina

  4. Pets and the development of positive attitudes to animals

    Contributor(s): James Serpell, Elizabeth Paul

  5. Bond‐Centered Animal Hospice and Palliative Care

    Contributor(s): Laurel Lagoni, Amir Shanan

  6. Chapter 23 - Following the Loss of a Companion Animal: Aftercare and Pet Loss Support

    Contributor(s): Katherine Goldberg, Sandra Brackenridge

  7. Aftercare

    Contributor(s): Coleen Ellis, Amir Shanan (editor), Jessica Pierce (editor), Tamara Shearer (editor)

  8. The Role of Activist & Media Communication in Helping Humanity Establish its Responsibility Toward Fellow Animals

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    Book Sections | Contributor(s): Carrie P. Freeman

    This chapter explores how communication is the fundamental means by which animal and environmental advocates and the media can increase awareness of and accountability for our harmful actions toward nonhuman animals in the Anthropocene era in order to facilitate restorative public intervention...

  9. One Health, One Medicine

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    Book Sections | Contributor(s): Laura H. Kahn, Thomas P. Monath, Bob H. Bokma, ., E. Paul Gibbs, A. Alonso Aguirre

    In recognition that the health of humans, animals, and the environment is linked, One Health seeks to increase communication and collaboration across the disciplines in order to promote, improve, and defend the health of all species on the planet. This strategy may seem simple, but...

  10. "Take a Paws" with Therapy Dogs and Make it a Howling Success

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    Book Sections | Contributor(s): Peggy A. Pritchard

  11. Badger-human conflict: an overlooked historical context for bovine TB debates in the UK

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    Book Sections | Contributor(s): Angela Cassidy

    In Britain, the question of whether to cull wild badgers (Meles meles) in order to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in domestic cattle herds has been the source of scientific, public and policy controversy for over 40 years and still shows no sign of resolution. This chapter...

  12. Recent animal disease outbreaks and their impact on human populations

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    Book Sections | Contributor(s): Jeff B Bender, William Hueston, Michael Osterholm

    There are very positive and strong connections between animals and humans, but also reasons for concern because about 61% of all human pathogens are zoonotic. The increase in new diseases, is due to increases in world trade, animal translocation, ecological disruptions, climate change,...

  13. Keynote Presentation: Making animal welfare sustainable - human behaviour change for animal behaviour: the human element

    Book Sections | Contributor(s): White, J., Rogers, S., Denenberg, S.

    201754-58978-1-78639-458-310.1079/9781786394583.0054text

  14. Evaluation of the association between attendance at veterinary hospital-based puppy socialisation classes and long-term retention in the home

    Book Sections | Contributor(s): Schulkey, R., DePorter, T., Denenberg, S.

    2017100-101978-1-78639-458-310.1079/9781786394583.0100text

  15. No better than flipping a coin: reconsidering canine behaviour evaluations in animal shelters

    Book Sections | Contributor(s): Patronek, G. J., Bradley, J., Denenberg, S.

    20173-4978-1-78639-458-310.1079/9781786394583.0003text

  16. Predicting aggressive behaviour: which factors influence biting and what is the use of temperament tests?

    Book Sections | Contributor(s): Schoening, B., Denenberg, S.

    20171-2978-1-78639-458-310.1079/9781786394583.0001text

  17. Having bitten is no one-way ticket for dogs: rehabilitation possibilities and principles

    Book Sections | Contributor(s): Schoening, B., Fechner, L.

    20175-6978-1-78639-458-310.1079/9781786394583.0005text

  18. The study of animal behaviour and its applications

    Book Sections | Contributor(s): Jensen, P.

    This chapter provides a brief overview of the historical background and of the various fields into which ethology has branched over the decades. The field that is of most interest in this book is the application of ethology in the study of animals utilized by man.

  19. Relationship among cat-owner bond, cat behaviour problems and cat environment conditions: a study with 1553 Spanish cat owners

    Book Sections | Contributor(s): Bulgakova, N.

    201748-51978-1-78639-458-310.1079/9781786394583.0048text

  20. Bonding between pet and pet owner. Animal health: a breakpoint in economic development?

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    Book Sections | Contributor(s): HJ Teoh, SK Cheong, PC Suttiwan, V Borvonsin

     The interactions between 200 pet owners and their pets were observed in this study. In general, the study also found that the more social support the pet provided for their owner, the stronger the emotional bond between pet and owner. Pet owners were also asked to say how...