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Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2017 Background Diarrhea is the most frequent morbidity affecting kenneled dogs in animal shelters. Diarrhea impacts animal welfare and the finances of the shelter as they must treat, clean, and house affected animals until recovered.
L. Rose, J. Rose, S. Gosling, M. Holmes
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Extreme Weather Events and Consumer Food Responses
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates consumer food responses to Hurricanes Helene and Milton, which affected a swath of the Southeastern U.S. in 2024. Using representative consumer survey data from six affected states, we analyze 10 distinct food responses classified into ex ante and ex post responses, and examine their associations with food insufficiency
Ahmad Zia Wahdat, Joseph Balagtas
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Study of the effect on shelter cat intakes and euthanasia from a shelter neuter return project of 10,080 cats from March 2010 to June 2014 [PDF]
PeerJ, 2014 Cat impoundments were increasing at the municipal San Jose animal shelter in 2009, despite long-term successful low cost sterilization programs and attempts to lower the euthanasia rate of treatable-rehabilitatable impounds beginning in 2008.
Karen L. Johnson, Jon Cicirelli
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Lied Animal Shelter Animal Campus Renewable Energy Demonstration Project
, 2005 The Animal Shelter campus plan includes a new adoption center coupled with a dog adoption park, a wellness/veterinary technician education center, a show arena, and an addition to the existing shelter that will accommodate all animal control and ...
Spitzmesser, Randy
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines how mandatory disclosure of added sugar content on the updated U.S. Nutrition Facts Panel (NFP) affects consumer demand and market outcomes. Using NielsenIQ Retail Scanner Data (2015–2020) and a random coefficient discrete choice model, we estimate how added sugar labeling influences purchasing behavior in yogurt and cookie
Yuxiang Zhang, Yizao Liu
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The impact of returning a pet to the shelter on future animal adoptions
Scientific Reports, 2022 Unsuccessful animal adoptions are stressful for many owners and may reduce their willingness to adopt again. The goal of this study was to determine the proportion of return owners who adopted post-return and investigate return characteristics that ...
Lauren Powell +5 more
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Inspired by the Mexican jumping bean, this study presents a centimeter‐scale, electronics‐free robot that merges principles from both the animal and plant kingdoms. A thermo‐responsive actuator mimicking larval motion, enclosed within a uniquely shaped plant‐seed‐inspired shell, generates jumping, rolling, flipping, sliding, and climbing through ...
Ragesh Chellattoan +3 more
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Nonprofit Shelter Finances and Live Release Rates: 97 Dogs, 45 Kennels
PetsRationale: This research explores the connections between shelter and rescue revenues and expenses and live release outcomes, specifically focusing on the implications of a nonprofit having a government contract to provide animal control and welfare ...
Laura Ann Reese
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Animals, 2021 The objective of this study was to identify phenotypic characteristics predicting the outcome of euthanasia for dogs entering shelters compared to live release.
Cassie J. Cain +2 more
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Factsheets On Pitbulls and Expectations When Adopting from an Animal Shelter [PDF]
, 2022 Over the past few decades, Pitbulls have been known to be the "most aggressive" dog breed to people and other dogs. However, people base this knowledge on gossip rather than facts and studies.
Van Buren, Kristin
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