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1. What You Can and Can't Learn From a Pet Food Label

   Contributor(s):: Angela Witzel

2. Helping Client Manage the Aggressive Dog

   Contributor(s):: Julia Albright

3. 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...

4. "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...

5. 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...

6. The impact of owner age on companionship with virtual pets

   Contributor(s):: S. Lawson, T. Chesney

7. General ethical considerations for animal-assisted therapy

   Contributor(s):: Beck, A. M.

8. The importance of animal companionship: implications for human and animal health

   Contributor(s):: Beck, A. M.

9. Animals, health and quality of life: professional development forum.

10. Animals, health and quality of life: abstract book

11. Horses as healers

    Contributor(s):: Adams, C. L.

12. Challenges of service dog ownership

    Contributor(s):: Adams, C. L.

13. Our role in the human/animal bond and promotion of human health and well being

    Contributor(s):: Bustad, L. K., Hines, L. M.

14. Veterinary business strategies and the human-animal bond: why pet welfare issues are in everyone's best interest

    Contributor(s):: Ackerman, L.

15. Bereavement, pet loss and deceased body presentation: pet euthanasia and helping owners deal with grief

    Contributor(s):: Brown, C.

    This article describes the role of the veterinarian in helping pet owners make decisions on euthanasia and on coping with the loss of their pets.

16. Making the visit to the veterinarian a positive experience for all

    Contributor(s):: Curtis, T. M.

17. Human-directed feline aggression

    Contributor(s):: Curtis, T. M.

18. Good-byes, grieving, and growing: grief - the role of pets in the family

    Contributor(s):: Dias, J.

19. Pet loss - easing the transition

    Contributor(s):: Downing, R.

20. The nonconventional human companion animal bond, death, and the veterinary practitioner-client relationship

    Contributor(s):: Harris, J. M.