Factors Informing the Return of Adopted Dogs and Cats to an Animal Shelter [PDF]
Animals, 2020 Although the adoption rate of dogs and cats from animal shelters has increased, a proportion of animals are returned to the shelter after they are adopted.
Sloane M. Hawes +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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Faecal virome of cats in an animal shelter. [PDF]
J Gen Virol, 2014 We describe the metagenomics-derived feline enteric virome in the faeces of 25 cats from a single shelter in California. More than 90 % of the recognizable viral reads were related to mammalian viruses and the rest to bacterial viruses. Eight viral families were detected: Astroviridae, Coronaviridae, Parvoviridae, Circoviridae, Herpesviridae ...
Zhang W +5 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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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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Epidemiological investigation of euthanasia in an Ontario animal shelter. [PDF]
J Feline Med Surg, 2018 Objectives The objective was to evaluate factors associated with euthanasia in an animal shelter in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Methods Data from 3737 cats admitted to the shelter between January and December 2011 were ...
Mozes R, Pearl DL, Niel L, Weese JS.
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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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The Impact of Caring and Killing on Physiological and Psychometric Measures of Stress in Animal Shelter Employees: A Pilot Study [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020 Nathaniel Hall, Alexandra Protopopova
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Owner-Related Reasons Matter more than Behavioural Problems—A Study of Why Owners Relinquished Dogs and Cats to a Danish Animal Shelter from 1996 to 2017 [PDF]
Animals, 2020 Peter Sandøe +2 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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