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Should Dogs and Cats be Given as Gifts? [PDF]
, 2013 Policies that state pets should not be adopted as gifts are prevalent at animal welfare organizations, despite the fact that this belief is unfounded. Denying adopters who intend to give the animals as gifts may unnecessarily impede the overarching goal ...
Emily D. Dolan +4 more
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The Implications of Policies on the Welfare of Free-Roaming Cats in New Zealand
Animals, 2022 A lack of national legislation for cat management in New Zealand poses challenges for ensuring that practices are consistently humane and effective. In this paper, we review the current cat management policies in New Zealand and the implications they ...
Christine L. Sumner +2 more
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Echinococcus multilocularis coproantigen detection by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in fox, dog, and cat populations [PDF]
, 1999 A sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection of Echinococcus multilocularis coproantigens (EM-ELISA) was developed with polyclonal rabbit (solid phase) and chicken egg (catching) antibodies that were directed against E ...
Alther, P. +4 more
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Stray cats are more frequently infected with zoonotic protists than pet cats [PDF]
Folia Parasitologica, 2017 Faecal samples were collected from cats kept as pets (n = 120) and stray cats (n = 135) in Central Europe (Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia) and screened for the presence of Cryptosporidium spp., Giardia intestinalis (Kunstler, 1882), Encephalitozoon spp.
Martin, Kvac +9 more
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Microorganisms, 2023 Leptospirosis is a zoonosis of public health concern. Its prevalence in stray animals in the South of Italy is unknown. This study aimed to investigate Leptospira spp. prevalence in 1009 stray animals.
Francesca Grippi +14 more
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Stray Agency and Interspecies Care: The Amsterdam Stray Cats and Their Humans [PDF]
, 2021 AbstractThis chapter discusses the Stichting Amsterdamse Zwerfkatten (Amsterdam Stray Cat Foundation, afterwards SAZ), who work with and for stray cats. In their practices and views they challenge common assumptions about cat subjectivity and agency, the cats’ right to a habitat and social relations, as well as the idea that there is a strict ...
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Disentangling the link between supplemental feeding, population density, and the prevalence of pathogens in urban stray cats [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background Supplemental feeding of free-roaming animals, including wildlife and feral or stray animals, is well known to have a substantial impact on various aspects of animal ecology including habitat use, activity patterns, and host-pathogen ...
Jusun Hwang +5 more
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Veterinary Integrative Sciences, 2021 Domestic cats are a potential source of Toxoplasma gondii infection for humans. This study was conducted to determine the seroprevalence and risk factors for T. gondii infection in domestic cats. Cat sera (n = 182) were tested for T.
Ruenruetai Udonsom +4 more
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Data Processing Pipeline for Pointing Observations of Lunar-based Ultraviolet Telescope [PDF]
, 2015 We describe the data processing pipeline developed to reduce the pointing observation data of Lunar-based Ultraviolet Telescope (LUT), which belongs to the Chang'e-3 mission of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program.
Cai, Hong-Bo +9 more
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First isolation of Toxoplasma gondii from rodents and stray cats in northeast of Iran
Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2019 Toxoplasma gondii is a common coccidian parasite with stray cat family as definitive host, and a wide range of warm blooded animals and human as intermediate hosts. The objective of this study was to isolate T.
EHSAN SHARIAT BAHADORI +4 more
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