Play and welfare have long been linked within animal research literature, with play considered as both a potential indicator and promoter of welfare. An indicator due to …
Domestic cats are popular companion animals, however not all live in human homes and many cats live within shelters or as free-roaming, unowned-feral or stray cats. Cats can …
Feline panleukopenia (FPL), a frequently fatal disease of cats, is caused by feline parvovirus (FPV) or canine parvovirus (CPV). We investigated simultaneous outbreaks of FPL between …
LR Moss, SM Hawes, K Connolly, M Bergstrom… - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary There is a critical gap in the literature regarding how community engagement is employed to address animal cruelty and neglect. This study sought to …
CY Hou, A Protopopova - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Whereas much research has been conducted on rats in their roles as pests and laboratory animal models, little is known about rats in their role as companion animals. However, rats …
Simple Summary Every year, millions of cats are admitted to shelters around the world. Reducing the amount of time that cats stay in a shelter environment (length of stay, LOS) …
LG DeTar, V Dubrovsky… - Journal of feline medicine …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives The aims of this descriptive study were to identify risk factors for feline Microsporum canis infection at shelter intake, to describe screening test accuracy, and to …
Accurate information about the number of cats living outdoors and how they respond to different kinds of management are necessary to quell debates about outdoor cat policy. The …
CY Hou, A Protopopova - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Domestic rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) are the fourth most common species admitted to the British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (BC SPCA) shelter …