• Laboratory rats as pets: The potential role of neonatal handling schedule for their life in and after the lab 

      Chaniotanis, Ioannis; Diamantakosc, Evangelos; Rizou, Vaso; Moltsanidou, Eleni; Kotopoulis, Christos; Thavarajah, Miriam; Polissidis, Alexia; Kostomitsopoulos, Nikolaos (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 ...
    • Up the leash: Exploring canine handlers’ perceptions of volunteering in canine-assisted interventions 

      Rousseau, Camille X.; Binfet, John-Tyler; Green, Freya L. L.; Tardif-Williams, Christine Y.; Draper, Zakary A.; Maynard, Allison (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, ...