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1. Animal-dependent veterinary staff: Too much of a good thing

   

   | Contributor(s):: Myrna Milani

   Ideally, everyone working in a veterinary practice chooses to do so following an educational process and personal experiences that imbued them with a strong desire to work with animals and people, as well as a strong interest in medical science and technology. However, sometimes the...

2. "Animals are friends, not food": Anthropomorphism leads to less favorable attitudes toward meat consumption by inducing feelings of anticipatory guilt

   | Contributor(s):: Wang, F., Basso, F.

3. "Before, he fought every day with the horse and with me": reducing violence in a Guatemalan community through a horse-handling program

   

   | Contributor(s):: J.L. Gibbons, C.A. Cunningham, L. Paiz, K.E. Poelker, M.A. Montufar Cardenas

   Community and family violence are endemic in Guatemala. We evaluated the effectiveness of a horse-handling program to reduce violent attitudes and aggressive behavior. Eighteen community members who worked with horses in their daily lives (16 men, 2 women, ages 15 to 58) participated in four...

4. "Do not choose as I do!" - Dogs avoid the food that is indicated by another dog's gaze in a two-object choice task

   | Contributor(s):: Balint, A., Farago, T., Meike, Z., Lenkei, R., Miklosi, A., Pongracz, P.

   Family dogs successfully follow human-given cues in a two-object choice test. However, whether this ability has any roots in dog-dog visual communication, has been seldom investigated. We designed a test where a video-projected, life-sized dog 'demonstrator' provided directional cues for...

5. "Early" cat ownership and the risk of sensitization and allergic rhinitis in Ligurian children with respiratory symptoms

   | Contributor(s):: Fasce, L., Tosca, M. A., Silvestri, M., Olcese, R., Pistorio, A., Rossi, G. A.

6. "Expectations versus experiences of veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) service dogs: An inductive conventional content analysis": Correction to Nieforth et al. (2022)

7. "Flexible Personhood": Loving Animals as Family Members in Israel

   | Contributor(s):: Shir-Vertesh, Dafna

8. "Gift giving" by wild bottle-nose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) to humans at a wild dolphin provisioning program, Tangalooma, Australia

   | Contributor(s):: Holmes, B. J., Neil, D. T.

   Since 1992, wild dolphin provisioning has occurred on a nightly basis at Tangalooma, a resort located on Moreton Island, Australia. Each evening at dusk up to 12 bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) are provided with fish in a regulated provisioning program. Since July 1998, biologists managing...

9. "I am a vegetarian": Reflections on a way of being

   | Contributor(s):: Shapiro, K. J.

   Employing a qualitative method adapted from phenomenological psychology, the paper presents a socio-psychological portrait of a vegetarian. Descriptives are a product of the author's reflection on (dialogue with) empirical findings and published personal accounts, interviews, and case...

10. "I'm just wild about Harry!" a psychoanalyst reflects on his relationship with his dog

    | Contributor(s):: Marcus, P.

11. "If All Animals Were Cats"

    | Contributor(s):: Pritchard, Michael

12. "Like owner, like dog": correlation between the owner's attachment profile and the owner-dog bond

    | Contributor(s):: Siniscalchi, M., Stipo, C., Quaranta, A.

13. "My salt in your belly" Agreement, binding and identity by meat consumption in South Western Morocco

    | Contributor(s):: Gelard, Marie-Luce

14. "One health": the potential of closer cooperation between human and animal health in Africa. (Bovine tuberculosis in Ethiopia.)

    | Contributor(s):: Zinsstag, J., Tanner, M.

    Emerging zoonoses affect livestock and humans, which calls for closer cooperation between animal and public health. Conceptually ideal, such cooperation is difficult to achieve and the causative agents of outbreaks are often confused. A lack of awareness may very likely be due to limited capacity...

15. "Paws" to provide comfort, relieve pain

    | Contributor(s):: D'Arcy, Y.

16. "Seizure-alert dogs": observations from an inpatient video/EEG unit

    | Contributor(s):: Ortiz, R., Liporace, J.

17. "She's a dog at the end of the day": guide dog owners' perspectives on the behaviour of their guide dog

    

    | Contributor(s):: Craigon, P. J., Hobson-West, P., England, G. C. W., Whelan, C.

    A guide dog is a domestic dog (Canis familiaris) that is specifically educated to provide mobility support to a blind or visually impaired owner. Current dog suitability assessments focus on behavioural traits, including: trainability, reactivity or attention to environmental stimuli, low...

18. "Support your local invasive species": animal protection rhetoric and nonnative species

    | Contributor(s):: Seymour, M.

19. "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.

20. "Taming the Wild Profusion of Existing Things"? A Study of Foucault, Power, and Human/Animal Relationships

    | Contributor(s):: Palmer, Clare