Trends in Intake, Length of Stay and Outcome Data in a Portuguese Animal Shelter Between 2018 and 2024 [PDF]
AnimalsMunicipal animal shelters play a crucial role in rescuing abandoned animals, managing free-roaming populations, and promoting animal welfare. This seven-year retrospective study analyzed 2291 animals (1132 dogs, 1159 cats) admitted to a Portuguese ...
Rui Jardim +3 more
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Behaviour Real-Time Spatial Tracking Identification (BeRSTID) used for Cat Behaviour Monitoring in an Animal Shelter [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Efficiently tracking animal behaviour in an animal shelter has direct lifesaving applications. Individualized care and early recognition of distress in cats are often missed.
B. H. Eagan, B. Eagan, A. Protopopova
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Modification of the Feline-Ality™ Assessment and the Ability to Predict Adopted Cats’ Behaviors in Their New Homes [PDF]
Animals, 2015 It is estimated that 2.5 million cats enter animal shelters in the United States every year and as few as 20% leave the shelter alive. Of those adopted, the greatest risk to post-adoption human animal bond is unrealistic expectations set by the adopter.
Emily Weiss +4 more
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Abuse recognition by shelter staff and shelter animal adopters. [PDF]
PLoS ONEScience has provided insight into the physical signs of animal abuse, such as the presence of fractures in different healing stages. Possible behavioural signs of animal abuse are understudied.
Ineke R van Herwijnen +3 more
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Canine Staphylococcaceae circulating in a Kenyan animal shelter [PDF]
Microbiology SpectrumAnimal shelters, especially in resource-poor countries, bring together pets from different regions and with different backgrounds. The crowding of such animals often results in infectious diseases, such as respiratory infections. This study characterized
Hatice Akarsu +10 more
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The implications of weeklong fostering and co-housing on shelter dog welfare [PDF]
PeerJMeeting the needs of dogs in a typical animal shelter can be a challenging proposition. Negative environmental inputs, such as excessive noise, restrictive kenneling, and social isolation, contribute to the compromised welfare that dogs experience. Human-
Lisa M. Gunter +7 more
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Underserved and overburdened: an ethnographic examination of rural animal sheltering [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary ScienceIntroductionIn the US, rural communities face unique challenges to companion animal sheltering and welfare. Smaller municipalities often serve socially vulnerable populations but lack the fiscal and administrative capacity to provide robust public ...
Laura A. Bray +2 more
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Behavioral predictors of subsequent respiratory illness signs in dogs admitted to an animal shelter. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Individual variability is evident in behavior and physiology of animals. Determining whether behavior at intake may predict subsequent illness in the animal shelter may influence the management of dogs housed at animal shelters and reduce overall disease.
Alexandra Protopopova +4 more
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Legal issues of veterinary services for shelters for stray animals in the Russian Federation [PDF]
BIO Web of Conferences, 2021 The important problem of urban and large rural settlements of the Russian Federation is the increase in the number of stray animals. The activities of shelters for stray animals are associated with a number of obligatory veterinary preventive measures ...
Vasiliev Mihail N. +3 more
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Welfare assessment of a dog shelter using the Shelter Quality Protocol
Cluj Veterinary Journal, 2023 The purpose of this study was to practically apply this protocol in a private shelter in Cluj county, Romania. The welfare of the sheltered dogs was carried out on three levels: the management of the shelter, measures at pen level and the individual ...
Anamaria Luciana Blaga Petrean +2 more
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