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Dogs at Work

2022
Abstract This chapter draws on research into the way dog training constructs the relationship between dog and human to explore how different organizational cultures shape dog-human working relationships. Using a gendered lens, it addresses the idea of partnership and how it develops through training in two contrasting organizational ...
Nickie Charles   +3 more
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Working the Dog

2022
Abstract This chapter examines how time and space are organized in specific ways around paid human work, walking with dogs, and within the home. In so doing, the chapter contributes to moves critiquing anthropocentric assumptions which form the basis of much of the study of organization(s); by suggesting that the organization of everyday
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Nutrition for Working and Service Dogs

Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice, 2014
Conformation, genetics, and behavioral drive are the major determinants of success in canine athletes, although controllable variables, such as training and nutrition, play an important role. The scope and breadth of canine athletic events has expanded dramatically in the past 30 years, but with limited research on performance nutrition.
Joseph, Wakshlag, Justin, Shmalberg
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Working Dogs

2009
The inadvertent introduction of the brown treesnake (Boiga irregularis) to Guam resulted in unprecedented losses to the island’s fragile ecology and economy. A primary management objective is preventing the spread of brown treesnakes to other locations via Guam’s transportation network.
Vice, Daniel S.   +3 more
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A Preliminary Work on Dog Emotion Recognition

IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence - Companion Volume, 2019
Humans react to animal emotions, and animals react to human emotions because we share similar emotional and neurological mirroring systems. Mirror neurons fire both when an animal performs an action and when the animal observes the same action performed by another individual.
Franzoni V.   +3 more
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Work with sledge dogs in the Antarctic

Journal of Small Animal Practice, 1976
ABSTRACTThe author is the first veterinary surgeon to spend a winter in the Antarctic looking after the sledge dogs. The method of training and driving the dogs is described, together with the veterinary conditions that were encountered.
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The World of Working Dogs

Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice, 2021
Maureen A, McMichael   +1 more
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Introduction to Working Dogs

Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice, 2021
Maureen A, McMichael   +1 more
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Practitioner's guide to working dog welfare

Journal of Veterinary Behavior, 2008
Abstract Research conducted by the Anthrozoology Institute and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory has shown that many working dogs exhibit high levels of physiologic stress in response to kenneling (Hiby et al., 2006; Rooney et al., 2007a).
Rooney, NJ, Gaines, SA, Hiby, E
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The challenges of wearable computing for working dogs

Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers - UbiComp '15, 2015
We present two case studies on creating wearables for dogs and discuss them in terms of challenges of safety, space, weight and comfort, that motivated them. You can use these case studies and our design process as a practical primer for designing wearables for working dogs.
Giancarlo Valentin   +2 more
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