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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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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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, 2011 Animal shelters play an important role in the adoption of homeless pets. Without them, there would be animals running loose in neighborhoods around the country, doing damage to personal property and possibly injuring people and other pets. Most shelters receive donations to help fund their operations but others do receive funding from the government ...
Goselin, Casey +4 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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Animal Shelter Management Course
, 2011 Due to a continuous and ever increasing population of domesticated animals, most namely dogs and cats, the inability to care of each and every one of them becomes apparent. This leads to a poor quality of life for some of these animals, often times causing animal abuse, neglect, or starvation.
Ciulla, Danielle +4 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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Examining the Relationship Between Social Vulnerability and Animal Shelter Intakes and Outcomes: Patterns and Implications. [PDF]
Animals (Basel)(1) Background: This study investigates the impact of social vulnerability, as quantified by the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI), on animal shelter intakes and adoptions, and the flow of animals between SVI groups at seven shelters within the United ...
Neal SM, Kremer T.
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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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Optimizing heartworm diagnosis in dogs using multiple test combinations
Parasites & Vectors, 2021 Background Various heartworm (HW) diagnostic testing modalities detect products of, or reactions to, different life cycle stages of Dirofilaria immitis.
Jennifer N. Lane +10 more
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