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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 ...
Food Preference Predicts Speed of Approach on a Runway Task by Dogs
(Universidad de Córdoba, Departamento de Medicina y Cirugía Animal, 2019)
The effective and quick assessment of food preference is important when attempting to identify foods that might function as effective reinforcers in dogs. In the current experiment, more highly preferred foods were expected ...
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 ...
Biomedical Scent Detection Dogs: Would They Pass as a Health Technology?
(Universidad de Córdoba, Departamento de Medicina y Cirugía Animal, 2018)
Biomedical scent detection dogs identify the scent profiles of diseases, such as cancer, diabetes or pathogenic micro-organisms. What the field of biomedical scent detection has been lacking, however, is the assessment of ...
Impact of therapy dog visits on outpatient nurse welfare and job satisfaction
(Universidad de Córdoba, Departamento de Medicina y Cirugía Animal, 2018)
Interaction with a therapy dog can decrease blood pressure, heart rate, and improve heart rate variability; due to these responses, it suggests that human-animal interaction can alleviate the stress response. This study ...
Marking frequency during intraspecific socialization sessions is related to urinary cortisol levels in shelter dogs
(Universidad de Córdoba, Departamento de Medicina y Cirugía Animal, 2019)
The aim of this study was to determine whether behavioural indicators such as marking frequency and whether cortisol/creatinine ratio (C/Cr) are influenced by three socialization sessions. Six adult shelter dogs were ...
The oxytocin receptor gene, an integral piece of the evolution of Canis familaris from Canis lupus
(Universidad de Córdoba, Departamento de Medicina y Cirugía Animal, 2016)
Previous research in canids has revealed both group (dog versus wolf) and individual differences in object choice task (OCT) performance. These differences might be explained by variation in the oxytocin receptor (OXTR) ...
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, ...
Recent developments in Canine Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome
(Universidad de Córdoba, Departamento de Medicina y Cirugía Animal, 2016)
Canine Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome (CCD) is a neurodegenerative disease affecting aging dogs. CCD is an underdiagnosed disease that involves at least 14% of geriatric dogs, but apparently less than 2% of diseased dogs ...
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 ...