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"An Experiment on a Gigantic Scale": Darwin and the domestication of pigeons
Contributor(s):: Feeley-Harnik, Gillian
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"Good samaritans": a legislative solution for mandatory reporting of suspected animal abuse
Contributor(s):: Jack, D. C.
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"I didn't feel right about animal dissection": dissection objectors share their science class experiences
Contributor(s):: Oakley, J.
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"I'll only help you if you have two legs," or, why human service professionals should pay attention to cases involving cruelty to animals
Contributor(s):: Loar, Lynn
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"I'm just wild about Harry!" a psychoanalyst reflects on his relationship with his dog
Contributor(s):: Marcus, P.
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"Nobody Wants to Eat Them Alive:" Ethical Dilemmas and Dual Media Narratives on Domestic Rabbits as Pets and Commodity
Contributor(s):: Gayane F. Torosyan, Brian Lowe
Using semiotic analysis, this study explores changes occurring in the societal perception of rabbits as farm animals as juxtaposed to their increasing popularity as domestic companions. This study is based on a preliminary hypothesis that rabbits are increasingly perceived and portrayed in media...
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"Old Wine in a New Bottle": new strategies for humane education
Contributor(s):: Arkow, Phil
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"Pet therapy" : a study and resource guide for the use of companion animals in selected therapies
Contributor(s):: Arkow, Phil
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"Sugar"
| Contributor(s):: Kruse Jr, Clifton B.
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"Take me under your wing" - love in animal-assisted psychotherapy: a clinical perspective on the unique therapeutic bond between animals and humans [Practice]
| Contributor(s):: Lev-Bendov, S., Barel, I., Parish-Plass, N.
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"Tamed" animals not "domesticated"
| Contributor(s):: Carpenter, S.
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"The simple magic of life": phenomenology, ontology, and animal ethics
| Contributor(s):: Weisberg, Z.
This paper explores the important contribution phenomenology can make to animal ethics. The underlying assumption is that animal ethics is as strong as the conception of animal ontology it takes for granted. I contend that Peter Singer's reductive ontology of animals as suffering beings leads him...
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"What does the turtle have inside its house?" Animal-assisted psychotherapy with foster children [Practice]
| Contributor(s):: Hellmann, S., Parish-Plass, N.
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"Zwartje", "Flight of Delight" and "Chikai": Borrowed Names for Animals in Sweden
| Contributor(s):: Katharina Leibring
This paper deals, from a Swedish point of view, with names for domestic animals that have been borrowed from other language areas and other cultures during the last two or three centuries. There are several different reasons for animals having or being given foreign names. These include...
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'A fiendish outrage'? A study of animal maiming in East Anglia: 1830-1870
| Contributor(s):: Archer, J. E.
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'Animal architecture' in the 18th and 19th century. Species-friendly animal raising in rural areas
| Contributor(s):: Blessing, Bettina
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'Canis empathicus'? A proposal on dogs' capacity to empathize with humans
| Contributor(s):: Karine Silva, Liliana de Sousa
Empathy has long attracted the attention of philosophers and psychologists, and more recently, of evolutionary biologists. Interestingly, studies suggest that empathy is a phylogenetically continuous phenomenon, ranging across animals from automatic emotional activation in response to the...
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'Sick as a dog': zooarchaeological evidence for pet dog health and welfare in the Roman world
| Contributor(s):: MacKinnon, Michael
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'Teacher's pet'--a successful formula for National Pet Week
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1993 Report of the AVMA Panel on Euthanasia
| Contributor(s):: , Edwin Andrews, B. Taylor Bennet, J. Derrell Clark, Katherine A. Houpt, Peter J. Pascoe, Gordon W. Robinson, John R. Boyce
In 1992, at the request of the AVMA Council on Research, the Executive Board of the AVMA convened a Panel on Euthanasia to review and make necessary revisions to the fourth Panel Report, published in 1986.1 Since 1986, the panel has become aware of a need for additional information on some...
