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Influences of indication response requirement and target prevalence on dogs’ performance in a scent-detection task
Contributor(s):: Edwards, Timothy L., Giezen, Claudia, Browne, Clare M.
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Long-term hyperalgesia and traumatic neuroma formation in tail-docked lambs
Contributor(s):: Larrondo, C., Bustamante, H., Paredes, E., Gallo, C.
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Interobserver reliability of measures of the Welfare Quality (R) animal welfare assessment protocol for sows and piglets
Contributor(s):: Friedrich, L., Krieter, J., Kemper, N., Czycholl, I.
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Goat kids are not small calves: Species comparisons in relation to disbudding
Contributor(s):: Hempstead, M. N., Waas, J. R., Stewart, M., Sutherland, M. A.
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Genetic and environmental effects on piglet survival and maternal behaviour of the farrowing sow
Contributor(s):: Baxter, Emma M., Jarvis, Susan, Sherwood, Lorna, Farish, Marianne, Roehe, Rainer, Lawrence, Alistair B., Edwards, Sandra A.
There is growing external pressure to abolish the farrowing crate, however alternative farrowing systems need to equal or surpass the performance (i.e. piglet survival) of more restrictive systems. In order to achieve consistent improvement in piglet survival genetic selection strategies...
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Canine Olfactory Thresholds to Amyl Acetate in a Biomedical Detection Scenario
| Contributor(s):: Astrid R. Concha, Claire M. Guest, Rob Harris, Thomas W. Pike, Alexandre Feugier, Helen Zulch, Daniel S. Mills
Dogs’ abilities to respond to concentrations of odorant molecules are generally deemed superior to electronic sensors. This sensitivity has been used traditionally in many areas; but is a more recent innovation within the medical field. As a bio-detection sensor for human diseases such as...
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Attachment security in companion dogs: adaptation of Ainsworth's strange situation and classification procedures to dogs and their human caregivers
| Contributor(s):: Solomon, J., Beetz, A., Schoberl, I., Gee, N., Kotrschal, K.
This exploratory study describes the development of a classification system for dogs' attachment security to caregivers that adheres closely to Ainsworth's seminal methodology. Fifty-nine adult dogs and caregivers participated in a mildly threatening laboratory encounter with a stranger (TS) and...
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Specificity and variability of trunk kinematics on a mechanical horse
| Contributor(s):: Goodworth, A. D., Barrett, C., Rylander, J., Garner, B.
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Effect of odorant pre-exposure on domestic dogs' sensitivity on an odorant detection task
| Contributor(s):: Hall, Nathaniel J., Smith, David W., Wynne, Clive D. L.
Although dogs are widely trained and deployed for odor detection work, relatively little research has investigated procedures that may more efficiently train or increase detection performance. Prior research in rodents and humans suggests that odorant exposure may enhance sensitivity to that...
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No better than flipping a coin: Reconsidering canine behavior evaluations in animal shelters
| Contributor(s):: Gary J. Patronek, Janis Bradley
Use of behavior evaluations for shelter dogs has progressed despite their lack of scientific validation as reliable diagnostic tools. Yet results of these evaluations are often used to make life-and-death decisions. Despite acknowledging the significant limitations of evaluations, most authors...
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The human-animal relationship: a new field of socio-educational action
| Contributor(s):: Senent-Sánchez, Joan-Maria
This article analyses the educational approaches towards the animal-human relationship which have been developed during the last 20 years. The article establishes a chain of states in that relationship and presents the reasons why those states are consecutive or, occasionally,...
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Development of personality tests to use in the field, stable over time and across situations, and linked to horses' show jumping performance
| Contributor(s):: Lansade, Léa, Philippon, Pascaline, Hervé, Lucile, Vidament, Marianne
This study aimed to identify tests that include all the criteria necessary to characterise reliably the personality of horses on a large scale: stability of measures across situations and over time, evaluation of independent dimensions, links with use and easy to organise for a large number of...
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Relationships between pet ownership and self-esteem, social sensitivity, and interpersonal trust
| Contributor(s):: Hyde, Karen R, Kurdek, Lawrence, Larson, Paul
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4-H PetPALS Juvenile Diversion Program Supports At-Risk Youth and Seniors
| Contributor(s):: Goble, Connie L., Miller, Lucinda B.
The 4-H PetPALS Juvenile Diversion Program provides a partnership opportunity with Extension and the juvenile court system to positively impact lives of at-risk youth. At-risk youth are taught by 4-H PetPALS adult volunteer leaders and 4-H PetPALS members to value and respect the human-animal...
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Can dogs smell lung cancer? First study using exhaled breath and urine screening in unselected patients with suspected lung cancer
| Contributor(s):: Amundsen, T., Sundstrom, S., Buvik, T., Gederaas, O. A., Haaverstad, R.
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Cancer odor in the blood of ovarian cancer patients: a retrospective study of detection by dogs during treatment, 3 and 6 months afterward
| Contributor(s):: Horvath, G., Andersson, H., Nemes, S.
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Colorectal cancer screening with odour material by canine scent detection
| Contributor(s):: Sonoda, H., Kohnoe, S., Yamazato, T., Satoh, Y., Morizono, G., Shikata, K., Morita, M., Watanabe, A., Kakeji, Y., Inoue, F., Maehara, Y.
Objective Early detection and early treatment are of vital importance to the successful treatment of various cancers. The development of a novel screening method that is as economical and non-invasive as the faecal occult blood test (FOBT) for early detection of colorectal cancer (CRC) is...
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Key considerations for the experimental training and evaluation of cancer odour detection dogs: lessons learnt from a double-blind, controlled trial of prostate cancer detection
| Contributor(s):: Elliker, K. R., Sommerville, B. A., Broom, D. M., Neal, D. E., Armstrong, S., Williams, H. C.
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Olfactory detection of human bladder cancer by dogs: proof of principle study
| Contributor(s):: Willis, C. M., Church, S. M., Guest, C. M., Cook, W. A., McCarthy, N., Bransbury, A. J., Church, M. R., Church, J. C.
Objective To determine whether dogs can be trained to identify people with bladder cancer on the basis of urine odour more successfully than would be expected by chance alone. Design Experimental, “proof of principle” study in which six dogs were trained to discriminate...
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Olfactory detection of prostate cancer by dogs sniffing urine: a step forward in early diagnosis
| Contributor(s):: Cornu, J. N., Cancel-Tassin, G., Ondet, V., Girardet, C., Cussenot, O.
