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The Use of Refuges by Communally Housed Cats [PDF]
Animals, 2015 The increase of domestic animals kept in shelters highlights the need to ensure animal welfare. Environmental enrichment can improve animal welfare in many ways, such as encouraging captive animals to use all the space available to them. The effects of physical environmental enrichment on the spatial distribution and behavioral repertoire of 35 ...
Oliveira, Adriana De +2 more
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KOMPAKS Community Communication Network in Cat Care
Indonesian Journal of Cultural and Community Development, 2022 The study aims to describe the KOMPAKS community communication network in cat care. The method used in this study is quantitative descriptive with communication network analysis techniques. The population of this study is the KOMPAKS Community. Snowball Sampling technique for sampling while data retrieval using questionnaires and interviews is not ...
Bahrul Alam, Ainur Rochmania
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The Impact of Targeted Trap–Neuter–Return Efforts in the San Francisco Bay Area
Animals, 2020 Recently, a growing collection of evidence that associates trap–neuter–return (TNR) programs with substantial and sustained reductions in community cat populations across a variety of environments has emerged.
Daniel D. Spehar, Peter J. Wolf
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Estimation of the dietary nutrient profile of free-roaming feral cats: possible implications for nutrition of domestic cats [PDF]
, 2011 Cats are strict carnivores and in the wild rely on a diet solely based on animal tissues to meet their specific and unique nutritional requirements. Although the feeding ecology of cats in the wild has been well documented in the literature, there is no ...
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Animals, 2019 A growing body of evidence indicates that trap-neuter-return (TNR) is not only effective at reducing community cat numbers, but that such reductions are sustainable over extended periods. Recently, a series of peer-reviewed articles documenting long-term
Daniel D. Spehar, Peter J. Wolf
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The Road to TNR: Examining Trap-Neuter-Return Through the Lens of Our Evolving Ethics
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2019 In the 2008 article “A Review of Feral Cat Control,” Robertson explored the trend developing in the management of so-called “feral” cats away from lethal methods toward the non-lethal method of trap-neuter-return (TNR). The review explored various issues
Peter Joseph Wolf, Joan E. Schaffner
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PLoS ONE, 2022 Feline upper respiratory tract disease (FURTD), often caused by infections etiologies, is a multifactorial syndrome affecting feline populations worldwide.
Holly Kristin Arnold +4 more
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Animals, 2020 The number of cats and dogs impounded and euthanized at animal shelters in the USA has declined dramatically in recent decades. The Humane Society of the United States reported that in 1973 an estimated 13.5 million cats and dogs were euthanized ...
Daniel D. Spehar, Peter J. Wolf
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Dysbiosis of the Urinary Bladder Microbiome in Cats with Chronic Kidney Disease
mSystems, 2021 Despite the clinical importance of urinary diseases in cats, the presence of resident urine microbes has not been demonstrated in cats, and the role of these microbes as a community in urinary health remains unknown.
Younjung Kim +8 more
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Social referencing and cat–human communication
Animal Cognition, 2015 Cats' (Felis catus) communicative behaviour towards humans was explored using a social referencing paradigm in the presence of a potentially frightening object. One group of cats observed their owner delivering a positive emotional message, whereas another group received a negative emotional message.
Merola I. +3 more
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