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Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice, 2010 Over the last 10 years, trilostane, a competitive inhibitor of steroid synthesis, is being widely used for the treatment of canine hyperadrenocorticism. Trilostane causes a significant but reversible decrease in cortisol production and a concomitant improvement in clinical signs in most dogs with this common condition.
Ramsey, I.K.
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Topical insecticides control Leishmania reservoir dogs [PDF]
, 2002 Canids and domestic dogs are reservoir hosts of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis (ZVL) caused by Leishmania infantum. Hence, one of the approaches to reduce the incidence of human ZVL is to cull infected dogs (e.g >850 000 dogs are screened per year with ...
Reithinger, R, Richard Reithinger
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Most Dogs Are Not NATIVE Dogs [PDF]
Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2021 Abstract Studies of dogs have proliferated among canine scientists, aided in part by the logistical convenience of working with owned animals whose care is handled by others. These pet dogs are unlike most dogs that have lived in contemporary or prehistoric settings. In particular, many of the dogs studied by canine scientists are NATIVE
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Do domestic dogs learn words based on humans’ referential behaviour? [PDF]
, 2014 Some domestic dogs learn to comprehend human words, although the nature and basis of this learning is unknown. In the studies presented here we investigated whether dogs learn words through an understanding of referential actions by humans rather than ...
Tempelmann, Sebastian +12 more
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Animals, 2023 Owners’ understanding of dog behaviour influences dog welfare. This study aimed to investigate owners’ experiences of living with dogs and perceptions of dog behaviour/behaviour change.
Sara C. Owczarczak-Garstecka +7 more
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Luteal phase decrease in packed cell volume in healthy non‐pregnant and pregnant bitches
Veterinary Medicine and Science, 2023 Objectives To establish packed cell volume (PCV) ranges for non‐pregnant, pregnant and post‐partum bitches from day 10 of proestrus, investigating any relationship with parity and litter size.
Rachel Moxon +4 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Humans’ individual differences including their demographics, personality, attitudes and experiences are often associated with important outcomes for the animals they interact with. This is pertinent to companion animals such as cats and dogs, given their
Lauren R. Finka +9 more
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ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 2006 This paper presents a compositional semantic analysis of pluractional adverbial modifiers like 'dog after dog' and 'one dog after the other'. We propose a division of labour according to which much of the semantics is carried by a family of plural operators. The adverbial itself contributes a semantics that we call pseudoreciprocal.
Beck, Sigrid, Stechow, Arnim von
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Extinction of experimental Triatoma infestans populations following continuous exposure to dogs wearing deltamethrin-treated collars. [PDF]
, 2006 Dogs are domestic reservoir hosts of Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas disease. We evaluated the effect of deltamethrin-treated dog collars (DTDCs) over time on the population dynamics of Triatoma infestans, a main T. cruzi vector. Forty
Reithinger, Richard +4 more
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, 2022 In this chapter I discuss whether and how an ontology can inform ethics. I use the example of ethics of companion animals to describe ethical naturalism and non-naturalism.
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