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Decoding the path to success: unveiling how behavior drives assistance dog career outcome [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary ScienceAssistance dogs (ADs) are placed in a variety of careers to meet individual needs, mitigating disabilities, fostering independence, providing life-saving alerts, and improving mental health. Career fit can be a source of stress, particularly when an AD's
Emma Hilby, Molly McCue
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A guide to the livestock-working dog [PDF]
Reprinted August 2003. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalogWelcome to the fascinating world of the livestock working dog.
Henny, Bonnie +1 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 Due to its novelty and lack of empirical study it remains unclear if a service dog truly mitigates the burden of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms.
Emmy A. E. van Houtert +5 more
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Vaccination strategies to conserve the endangered African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) [PDF]
, 2011 Pathogens such as rabies virus and canine distemper virus present a significant risk to the long-term survival of some endangered African wild dog (Lycaon picrus) populations.
R. Woodroffe +9 more
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Biosecurity of service dog environments
Науковий вісник Львівського національного університету ветеринарної медицини та біотехнологій імені С.З. Гжицького. Серія: Сільськогосподарські наукиThe relevance of this study is due to the lack of information space regarding potential biological threats when keeping service dogs and their management methods.
T. Farionik, A. Kolechko, N. Krempa
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Animals, 2021 Many assistance dog providers use volunteer raisers to manage each puppy’s learning and daily experiences, which partly determines the puppy’s behavioural development. Therefore, it is important that raisers engage in recommended practices.
Dac Mai +5 more
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Public Perceptions of Service Dogs, Emotional Support Dogs, and Therapy Dogs [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2017 As service dogs, emotional support dogs, and therapy dogs have become more prevalent in the USA, so too has the controversy surrounding their legitimacy. Yet, there is a lack of objective data regarding the public’s understanding of the role played by each of these types of animals, as well as their perceptions regarding the legitimacy of their ...
Regina Schoenfeld-Tacher +3 more
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Human-Animal Interactions, 2023 Recovery from substance use disorder (SUD) can be conceptualized as a personal journey that includes connection with self and others, as well as animals – known as the human-animal bond (HAB).
Colleen Dell +4 more
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A cross-sectional study of factors associated with dog ownership in Tanzania [PDF]
, 2008 Background: Mass vaccination of owned domestic dogs is crucial for the control of rabies in sub-Saharan Africa. Knowledge of the proportion of households which own dogs, and of the factors associated with dog ownership, is important for the planning and ...
M Karen Laurenson +25 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2019 Japan learnt how to promote assistance dogs effectively by deliberating the issues and challenges that surrounded assistance dogs in the USA and Europe and the Act on Assistance Dogs for Physically Disabled Persons was issued in 2002.
Tomoko Takayanagi, Mariko Yamamoto
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