Simple Summary Despite evidence of a minor role of gastrointestinal parasites in causing
disease in owned pet populations prophylactically treated with anthelmintics …

Research into cat behavior has gained more attention in recent years. As one of the world's
most popular companion animals, work in this field has potential to have wide-reaching …

Domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus) engage in a variety of relationships with humans and
can be conditioned to engage in numerous behaviors using Pavlovian and operant methods …

The results of current wolf-dog studies on human-directed behaviors seem to suggest that
domestication has acted on dogs' general attitudes and not on specific socio-cognitive skills …

Dogs' increased human-directed sociability compared to wolves may be the result of
increased oxytocin system activity and decreased stress responses, but comparative studies …

In many European shelters, dogs may spend many years confined. A poor environment and
inappropriate management may lead to a low quality of life. The absence of harmonised …

Two experiments were conducted to assess the influence of human attentional state,
population, and human familiarity on domestic cat sociability. Sociability behaviors included …

Abstract Qualitative Behaviour Assessment (QBA) was utilised to examine the behavioural
expression of dogs in different housing environments and the results were compared to …

Sociability, defined as the tendency to approach and interact with unfamiliar people, has
been found to modulate some communicative responses in domestic dogs, including gaze …

Highlights•Social referencing is known to occur in dogs when they face an unknown
object.•We investigated if this phenomenon exists when dogs face an unknown person.•We …