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What You Can and Can't Learn From a Pet Food Label
Contributor(s):: Angela Witzel
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Helping Client Manage the Aggressive Dog
Contributor(s):: Julia Albright
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Our Pet Population Explosion and Operation SPARED
Contributor(s):: Kay Clausing
All humane societies are dedicated to preventing cruelty and suffering. No society can effectively prevent cruelty unless it makes spaying compulsory for all females released for adoption and talks spaying to every owner of a female. Even if the home is a good one in every other respect, if a...
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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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Transformational Solutions of Self through Companion Animals
Contributor(s):: Jill R. Mosteller
How consumers manage the dynamics between love and money can be intertwined in a myriad of ways. Based upon the growing presence of companion animals in U.S. households (now estimated at 62%) and related financial spend (over $50 billion in 2011) (APPA 2011), understanding consumers' identity...
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The impact of owner age on companionship with virtual pets
Contributor(s):: S. Lawson, T. Chesney
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Human-directed feline aggression
Contributor(s):: Curtis, T. M.
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Managing separation anxiety: an evidence-based approach
Contributor(s):: Neilson, J. C.
