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Raising an Assistance Dog Puppy—Stakeholder Perspectives on What Helps and What Hinders

open access: yesAnimals, 2020
Assistance dog puppies live with their raisers for up to 16 months before entering advanced training and, hopefully, becoming qualified to help people with a disability.
Dac Mai   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Disaster Preparedness among Service Dog Puppy- Raisers (Human Subject Sample)

open access: yesAnimals, 2020
Little is known about the ways in which puppy raisers engage in disaster preparedness for their puppies (or “guide dogs in training”). The aim of this research is to understand disaster preparedness among service dog puppy raisers.
Sarah E DeYoung, Ashley K Farmer
exaly   +3 more sources

Is UK Puppy Purchasing Suffering a Long COVID Effect? Ongoing Negative Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic upon Puppy Purchase Motivations and Behaviours in 2021

open access: yesAnimals, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic led to a surge in acquisitions of puppies in the UK, dubbed the “Pandemic Puppy” phenomenon. In addition to an increased demand for puppies, widespread changes to both why and how puppies were purchased during this period compared ...
Rowena M A packer   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Chasing Puppies

open access: yesJournal of Computational Geometry, 2022
We solve an open problem posed by Michael Biro at CCCG 2013 that was inspired by his and others' work on beacon-based routing. Consider a human and a puppy on a simple closed curve in the plane.
Mikkel Abrahamsen   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pandemic Puppies: Characterising Motivations and Behaviours of UK Owners Who Purchased Puppies during the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic

open access: yesAnimals, 2021
Widespread media reports suggest that unusually high numbers of the public purchased, or sought to purchase, puppies following the first ‘lockdown’ phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, dubbed “Pandemic Puppies”.
Rowena M. A. Packer   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Application of an Adapted Behaviour Change Wheel to Assistance Dog Puppy Raising: A Proposed Raiser-Centred Support Program

open access: yesAnimals, 2023
Puppy raising (PR) programs recruit volunteer community members (raisers) to raise assistance dog (AD) candidates from puppyhood until the dogs are ready for advanced training.
Dac L. Mai   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Information Provided by Breeders and Referring Veterinarians about the Presence and Meaning of a Murmur to Owners of Newly Purchased Puppies with a Later Confirmed Congenital Heart Disease

open access: yesVeterinary Sciences, 2022
Background: A recent study revealed that only 10% of puppies diagnosed with a congenital heart disease were referred for murmur investigation to a veterinary cardiology specialist while the puppies were in the breeders’ possession. Whether the new owners
Vicky R. Vos, Viktor Szatmári
doaj   +1 more source

Highlighting gaps in puppy research using Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological theory of human development

open access: yesHuman-Animal Interactions, 2023
The use of an ecological model in puppy development research can help to capture the real-world complexity of development factors and outcomes. Using a modified version of Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological model, we explored the real-world experiences of 20
Ana Goncalves Costa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Relative Impact of Birth Weight and Early Growth on Neonatal Mortality in Puppies

open access: yesAnimals, 2023
Puppy survival during their first weeks of life can be improved, and early detection of puppies with increased mortality risk is one of the keys to success.
Amélie Mugnier   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Canine Socialisation: A Narrative Systematic Review

open access: yesAnimals, 2022
There are over 10 million pet dogs in the UK alone, and they have become a member of modern human families. If not properly socialised as puppies, dogs have a higher risk of problematic behaviours during adulthood, yet socialisation studies are lacking ...
Victoria McEvoy   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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