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“Do Your Homework as Your Heart Takes over When You Go Looking”: Factors Associated with Pre-Acquisition Information-Seeking among Prospective UK Dog Owners

Animals, 2023
The factors influencing why and how people decide to acquire a dog are not well understood and little is known about the extent to which prospective owners undertake preparatory research.
Rebecca Mead, Katrina E. Holland, Rachel A. Casey, Melissa M. Upjohn, Robert M. Christley   +4 more
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Exploring and Developing the Questions Used to Measure the Human–Dog Bond: New and Existing Themes

Animals, 2022
Dogs play an important role in many western societies, providing companionship, emotional support, and assistance, as well as other more specialist roles. The literature reveals that many human–animal interaction (HAI) questionnaires exist to measure the
Lauren E. Samet, Helen Vaterlaws-Whiteside, Naomi D. Harvey, Melissa M. Upjohn, Rachel A. Casey   +4 more
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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, Tempelmann Sebastian, Juliane, Kaminski, Tomasello Michael, Juliane Kaminski, Tomasello, M. ; https://orcid.org/, Tomasello, Michael, Kaminski, J. ; https://orcid.org/, Tempelmann, S. ; https://orcid.org/, Sebastian Tempelmann, Michael Tomasello, Kaminski Juliane, Kaminski, Juliane   +12 more
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Dogs catch human yawns [PDF]

, 2008
This study is the first to demonstrate that human yawns are possibly contagious to domestic dogs (Canis familiaris). Twenty-nine dogs observed a human yawning or making control mouth movements.
Shepherd, Alex J., Atsushi Senju, Joly-Mascheroni, Ramiro M., Senju, Atsushi, Ramiro M Joly-mascheroni, Alex J Shepherd   +5 more
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Sleep Duration and Behaviours: A Descriptive Analysis of a Cohort of Dogs up to 12 Months of Age

Animals, 2020
Sleep is a vital behaviour that can reflect an animal’s adaptation to the environment and their welfare. However, a better understanding of normal age-specific sleep patterns is crucial.
Rachel Kinsman, Sara Owczarczak-Garstecka, Rachel Casey, Toby Knowles, Séverine Tasker, Joshua Woodward, Rosa Da Costa, Jane Murray   +7 more
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“It’s Like Living with a Sassy Teenager!”: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Owners’ Comments about Dogs between the Ages of 12 Weeks and 2 Years

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, Rosa E. P. Da Costa, Naomi D. Harvey, Kassandra Giragosian, Rachel H. Kinsman, Rachel A. Casey, Séverine Tasker, Jane K. Murray   +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, Rebekah Dutton Worsfold, Julie Davis, Wendy Adams, Gary C. W. England   +4 more
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6. A Dog Is a Dog Is a Dog

, 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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Investigation of humans individual differences as predictors of their animal interaction styles, focused on the domestic cat

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, Lucia Ripari, Lindsey Quinlan, Camilla Haywood, Jo Puzzo, Amelia Jordan, Jaclyn Tsui, Rachel Foreman-Worsley, Laura Dixon, Marnie L. Brennan   +9 more
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Dog after dog revisited

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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