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For the Love of Darcie: recognising the human-companion animal relationship in housing law and policy [PDF]

, 2018
This paper identifies the law’s failure to recognise and protect the human-companion animal relationship in the housing arena. The nature of the human-companion animal relationship has striking similarities to human-human relationships in the socially ...
Rook, Deborah
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Prospective Estimation of the Prevalence of Thromboembolism in Dogs With Inflammatory Protein‐Losing Enteropathy

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine
Background Inflammatory protein‐losing enteropathy (iPLE) is thought to be associated with a hypercoagulable state and may predispose dogs to thromboembolism (TE). However, little information is available regarding the prevalence of TE in dogs with iPLE.
Nene Oishi, Hiroshi Ohta, Masahiro Tamura, Kiwamu Hanazono, Kenjiro Miyoshi, Nozomu Yokoyama, Genya Shinbo   +6 more
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A Study on Growth Performance of Ducks Fed Diets with Different Types of Sipjeondaebo-Tang Byproduct Meal and Red Ginseng Marc with Fermented Red Koji and Ammonia Fluxes in Duck Litter using Alum or Aluminum Chloride

The Journal of Poultry Science, 2018
The aims of the present study were to investigate the growth performance of ducks fed diets with different types of Sipjeondaebo-tang (ST) byproduct meal and red ginseng marc with fermented red koji (RGMK), and to investigate ammonia (NH3) fluxes from ...
Tae-Ho Chung, Chang-Man Kim, In-Hag Choi
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Gut Probiotics and Health of Dogs and Cats: Benefits, Applications, and Underlying Mechanisms

Microorganisms, 2023
Pets (mostly domestic dogs and cats) play an important role in the daily lives of humans and their health has attracted growing attention from pet owners.
Qing Yang, Zhenlong Wu
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MRSA Variant in Companion Animals

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2012
Methicillin-resistant Staphylocoocus aureus (MRSA) harboring mecA(LGA251) has been isolated from humans and ruminants. Database screening identified this MRSA variant in cats, dogs, and a guinea pig in Germany during 2008-2011. The novel MRSA variant is not restricted to ruminants or humans, and contact with companion animals might pose a zoonotic risk.
Walther, Birgit, Wieler, Lothar H., Vincze, Szilvia, Antão, Esther-Maria, Brandenburg, Anja, Stamm, Ivonne, Kopp, Peter A., Kohn, Barbara, Semmler, Torsten, Lübke-Becker, Antina   +9 more
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MiRo: Social Interaction and Cognition in an Animal-like Companion Robot [PDF]

, 2018
Future companion and assistive robots will interact directly with end-users in their own homes over extended periods of time. To be useful, and remain engaging over the long-term, these technologies need to pass a new threshold in social robotics-to be ...
Bridges, G., Conran, S., Mitchinson, B., Power, T., Prescott, T.J.   +4 more
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Congenital urethral sphincter mechanism incompetence: observational clinical findings and treatment outcomes—a small retrospective study in 19 bitches

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica
Background This study aimed to report observational clinical findings and treatment outcomes in a population of bitches affected with congenital urethral sphincter mechanism incompetence (CUSMI).
Pierre Langer, Charles Porsmoguer, Géraldine Bolen, Annick Hamaide, Stéphanie Noël   +4 more
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Animal and human health: tackling uncertainty through participatory modelling and simulation [PDF]

, 2017
Zoonoses–infectious diseases communicable between animals and humans–, drug resistance and environmental pollution are now causing serious health problems worldwide.
Binot, Aurélie, Duboz, Raphaël
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Approaches to canine health surveillance [PDF]

, 2014
Effective canine health surveillance systems can be used to monitor disease in the general population, prioritise disorders for strategic control and focus clinical research, and to evaluate the success of these measures.
Brodbelt, D C, Church, D B, McGreevy, P D, O'Neill, D G, Sydney, Thomson, P C   +5 more
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Children and Pets: The Hidden Victims of Domestic Violence & Abuse (DVA): Where Action & Activism merge! [PDF]

, 2019
Children and Pets: The Hidden Victims of Domestic Violence & Abuse (DVA): Where Action & Activism merge! Researchers such as Harne (2011) and Radford et al (2011) have long championed the area of Children’s rights in the DVA field and the Government ...
McKie, Ruth, Turgoose, Di
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