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Can cat caregivers reliably assess acute pain in cats using the Feline Grimace Scale? A large bilingual global survey
Contributor(s):: Monteiro, Beatriz P., Lee, Netta H. Y., Steagall, Paulo
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All Creatures Great and Small: A Review and Typology of Employee-Animal Interactions
Contributor(s):: Quan, Shawn Xiaoshi, Lam, Carisa, Schabram, Kira, Yam, Kai Chi
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CATastrophic myths part 1: Common misconceptions about the social behavior of domestic cats and implications for their health, welfare, and management
Contributor(s):: Croney, C., Udell, M., Delgado, M., Ekenstedt, K., Shoveller, A. K.
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Inhuman animals: Moving dehumanization into the domain of human–animal relations
Contributor(s):: Gradidge, Sarah, Alcañiz-Colomer, Joaquín, Loughnan, Steve
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Horses' Tactile Reactivity Differs According to the Type of Work: The Example of Equine-Assisted Intervention
| Contributor(s):: Rochais, C., Lerch, N., Gueguen, L., Schmidlin, M., Bonamy, O., Grandgeorge, M., Hausberger, M.
Tactile perception in humans varies between individuals and could depend on extrinsic factors such as working activity. In animals, there is no study relating the influence of animals' work and their tactile reactivity per se. We investigated horses' tactile reactivity using von Frey...
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Investigating the market for cultivated meat as pet food: A survey analysis
| Contributor(s):: Oven, Alice, Yoxon, Barbara, Milburn, Josh
The number of people reducing their meat consumption due to ethical and environmental concerns is growing. However, meat reducers sometimes care for omnivorous or carnivorous pets, creating the `vegetarian's dilemma'. Some meat-reducers opt to feed plant-based diets to companion animals,...
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Effects of contact with a dog on prefrontal brain activity: A controlled trial
| Contributor(s):: Marti, Rahel, Petignat, Milena, Marcar, Valentine L., Hattendorf, Jan, Wolf, Martin, Hund-Georgiadis, Margret, Hediger, Karin
Background There is a broad range of known effects of animal contact on human mental and physical health. Neurological correlates of human interaction with animals have been sparsely investigated. We investigated changes in frontal brain activity in the presence of and during contact with a...
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A Global Survey of the Views of Practicing Companion Animal Veterinarians on Their Undergraduate Curriculum and Their Access to Continuing Education Resources
| Contributor(s):: Endenburg, Nienke, van Lith, Hein A. A.
A global survey was developed to gain insight into the opinion of companion animal veterinarians about their undergraduate education and their access to continuing education on the following topics: client communication, animal welfare, surgical techniques, human-animal bond, dentistry, animal...
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Attitudes of wildlife park visitors towards returning wildlife species: An analysis of patterns and correlates
| Contributor(s):: Ostermann-Miyashita, Emu-Felicitas, Pernat, Nadja, Koenig, Hannes J., Hemminger, Karoline, Gandl, Nina, Bellingrath-Kimura, Sonoko Dorothea, Hibler, Sophia, Kiffner, Christian
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Guide dog versus robot dog: assembling visually impaired people with non-human agents and achieving assisted mobility through distributed co-constructed perception
| Contributor(s):: Due, Brian L.
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Hayvan refahına ilişkin tüketici algı ve tutumu
| Contributor(s):: Özlem GÖKMEN TÜFENK
Bu araştırmada, tüketicilerin hayvan refahına yönelik algı ve tutumunun belirlenmesi ve tüketicilerin bazı özellikleri ile hayvan refahı algı ve tutumu arasındaki ilişkilerin incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Araştırmanın amacı kendilerine açıklandıktan sonra kabul...
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A Dog?s Dinner: Factors affecting food choice and feeding practices for UK dog owners feeding raw meat-based or conventional cooked diets
| Contributor(s):: Morgan, G., Williams, N., Schmidt, V., Cookson, D., Symington, C., Pinchbeck, G.
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Environmentalities of coexistence with wolves in the Cantabrian Mountains of Spain
| Contributor(s):: Marino, A., Blanco, J. C., Cortes-Vazquez, J. A., Lopez-Bao, J. V., Bosch, A. P., Durant, S. M.
Coexistence between humans and large carnivores is mediated by diverse values and interactions. We focus on four sites in the Cantabrian Mountains of Spain with a history of continuous wolf presence to examine how perceptions of coexistence vary across contexts. We conducted semi-structured and...
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Understanding the Attitudes of Communities to the Social, Economic, and Cultural Importance of Working Donkeys in Rural, Peri-urban, and Urban Areas of Ethiopia
| Contributor(s):: Martha Geiger, Jo Hockenhull, Henry Buller, Gebre Tefera Engida, Mulugeta Getachew, Faith Adelaide Burden, Helen Rebecca Whay
Working donkeys (Equus africanus asinus) are vital to the development and support of people’s livelihoods in rural, peri-urban, and urban areas of Ethiopia. However, despite their critical role in providing transport, food security, and income generation to some of the poorest and most...
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Understanding stakeholders perception towards human-wildlife interaction and conflict in a tiger landscape-complex of India
| Contributor(s):: Ronak T. Sripal
Human-population of the earth exceeding 6 billion and growing at an estimates rate of 1.2% per year (US census Bureau, 2002) will lead to increase in human-wildlife encounters. Attacks on humans are perhaps the least understood of these encounters, but the most interesting and emotionally...
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Implications for Conservation of Collection of Mediterranean Spur-Thighed Tortoise as Pets in Morocco: Residents' Perceptions, Habits, and Knowledge
| Contributor(s):: Amalia Segura, Miguel Delibes-Mateos, Pelayo Acevedo
The trading and collection of wild animals as pets may be cause for concern regarding animal welfare and species conservation. These concerns can be exemplified by Mediterranean spur-thighed tortoise (Testudo graeca), a long-living species whose use as pets is long established. The human...
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Impact of disease characteristics and knowledge on public risk perception of zoonoses
| Contributor(s):: Spence, C. E., Jenkins, S. C., Osman, M.
Zoonoses represent a global public health threat. Understanding lay perceptions of risk associated with these diseases can better inform proportionate policy interventions that mitigate their current and future impacts. While individual zoonoses (e.g. bovine spongiform encephalopathy) have...
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Are Coyotes "Natural"? Differences in Perceptions of Coyotes Among Urban and Suburban Park Users
| Contributor(s):: Brielle R. Manzolillo, Carol S. Henger, Tatyana Graham, Nadya Hall, Anne H. Toomey
By 2050 more than 65% of humans are expected to live in urban and suburban areas. This shift has gained the attention of conservation scientists and managers with more focus directed on conflict and coexistence between wildlife and urbanized populations. One species that is increasingly...
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Hippotherapy: An Alternative Treatment from the Perceptions of Practitioners
| Contributor(s):: Leah Tinkham
Hippotherapy can be defined as a dynamic service offered by occupational, physical, and speech-language pathologists that utilizes a horse’s unique movement to achieve functional outcomes. While there are an abundance of studies demonstrating the effectiveness of hippotherapy, very few...
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Between Freedom and Abandonment: Social Representations of Free-Roaming Donkeys in the Brazilian Northeast
| Contributor(s):: Perozzi Gameiro, Mariana Bombo, Clancy, Cara, Zanella, Adroaldo José
The presence of free-roaming donkeys on Brazilian Northeastern roads has significant welfare and safety implications for both humans and animals. Working donkeys have played an important historical role in regional development and are considered a cultural symbol of the Brazilian Northeast, as...
