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The Link between Family Violence and Animal Cruelty: A Scoping Review

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2022
There is some evidence that family violence (intimate partner violence, child maltreatment, elder abuse) co-occurs with animal cruelty (i.e., threats to and/or actual harm of an animal), which is often referred to as “the link.” The aim of this scoping ...
Camie A. Tomlinson   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Relationship Between Scarring and Dog Aggression in Pit Bull-Type Dogs Involved in Organized Dogfighting

open access: yesAnimals, 2016
When pit bull-type dogs are seized in an investigation of organized dogfighting, heavily scarred dogs are often assumed to be highly dog aggressive due to a history of fighting.
Katherine A. Miller   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of Excluding Food Guarding from a Standardized Behavioral Canine Assessment in Animal Shelters

open access: yesAnimals, 2018
Many shelters euthanize or restrict adoptions for dogs that exhibit food guarding while in the animal shelter. However, previous research showed that only half the dogs exhibiting food guarding during an assessment food guard in the home.
Heather Mohan-Gibbons   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Psycho-Behavioural Changes in Dogs Treated with Corticosteroids: A Clinical Behaviour Perspective

open access: yesAnimals, 2022
Arousal and distress are often important factors in problematic behaviours, and endogenous corticosteroids are important mediators in the associated stress responses.
Lorella Notari   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Utilitarianism and animal cruelty: Further doubts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Utilitarianism has an apparent pedigree when it comes to animal welfare. It supports the view that animal welfare matters just as much as human welfare. And many utilitarians support and oppose various practices in line with more mainstream concern over ...
Davies, Ben
core   +2 more sources

Are They Buying It? United States Consumers’ Changing Attitudes toward More Humanely Raised Meat, Eggs, and Dairy

open access: yesAnimals, 2018
This survey research sampled 1000 US (United States) consumers of meat, eggs, and dairy on their attitudes towards the welfare of farm animals and the willingness to pay for products with trustworthy welfare certifications.
C. Victor Spain   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Community Veterinary Medicine Programs: Pet Owners' Perceptions and Experiences

open access: yesFrontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021
Many American pet owners struggle financially, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated this problem. Yet, the positive effects that companion animals have in people's lives create the need for supportive systems to ensure that financial ...
Lori R. Kogan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cluster randomised controlled trial of ‘whole school’ child maltreatment prevention programme in primary schools in Northern Ireland: study protocol for Keeping Safe

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2018
Background Child maltreatment has a pervasive, detrimental impact on children’s wellbeing. Despite a growing focus on prevention through school based education, few programmes adopt a whole- school approach, are multi-component, seek to address all forms
Aisling McElearney   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Adult-perpetrated Animal Abuse: Development of a Proclivity Scale [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
There is a clear discrepancy in the reporting of animal cruelty complaints, prosecutions and convictions suggesting that any prevalence figures of abuse are significant under-representations.
Chan D.   +6 more
core   +1 more source

On the Geometry of Speciesist Policing: The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Animal Cruelty Data

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2023
This article contests the animal cruelty statistics newly collected and publicized in the US by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In what follows, we (1) outline the inclusion of animal cruelty in the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting ...
Piers Beirne, Michael J. Lynch
doaj   +1 more source

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