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The human side of animal experimentation: A qualitative, exploratory study into workrelated stress and coping in animal experimenters
(Universidad de Córdoba, Departamento de Medicina y Cirugía Animal, 2020)
Besides the pervasive controversy of animal experimentation in society, ethics and science, the human experimenter side of laboratory animal studies is a relatively underrepresented topic in human-animal interaction research. ...
Laboratory rats as pets: The potential role of neonatal handling schedule for their life in and after the lab
(Universidad de Córdoba, Departamento de Medicina y Cirugía Animal, 2020)
There are organizations for re-homing animals that are also specialized in re-homing dogs and cats who have been research subjects. Why can’t we do this for more animals and especially for the rats that are used extensively ...
Greeting behavior between dogs in a dog park
(Universidad de Córdoba, Departamento de Medicina y Cirugía Animal, 2020)
I used naturalistic observations to explore patterns of greeting behavior between 58 off-leash dogs (Canis familiaris) at a dog park. Dogs greeting at a dog park entailed one or both dogs approaching, engaging in olfactory ...
The human response to pet rescue TV commercials
(Universidad de Córdoba, Departamento de Medicina y Cirugía Animal, 2020)
According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 6.5 million abandoned pets are housed in shelters in the United States. Of those who are sheltered 670,000 dogs are euthanized. An opportunity ...
Up the leash: Exploring canine handlers’ perceptions of volunteering in canine-assisted interventions
(Universidad de Córdoba, Departamento de Medicina y Cirugía Animal, 2020)
To date, research on university and college based canine-assisted interventions for post-secondary students have focused on identifying the effects of spending time with therapy dogs on the well-being of participants and, ...
Domestic cats’ reactions to their owner and an unknown individual petting a potential rival
(Universidad de Córdoba, Departamento de Medicina y Cirugía Animal, 2020)
Jealousy is a second-order emotion, its main function being to protect a valued relationship from a rival. A basic form of jealousy has been described in human infants, and its presence in non-human animals has recently ...