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Going to the office - What's in it for the dog? 去办公室-里面有什么给狗的？

IF 1.5 3区农林科学

Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science Pub Date : 2023-10-13 DOI: 10.1080/10888705.2023.2268540

S Foltin, L M Glenk

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Handling End-of-Life Situations in Small Animal Practice: What Strategies do Veterinarians Contemplate During their Decision-Making Process? 在小动物实践中处理生命终结的情况：兽医在决策过程中会考虑什么策略？

IF 1.5 3区农林科学

Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science Pub Date : 2023-10-11 DOI: 10.1080/10888705.2023.2268516

E Deelen, F L B Meijboom, T J Tobias, F Koster, J W Hesselink, T B Rodenburg

{"title":"Handling End-of-Life Situations in Small Animal Practice: What Strategies do Veterinarians Contemplate During their Decision-Making Process?","authors":"E Deelen, F L B Meijboom, T J Tobias, F Koster, J W Hesselink, T B Rodenburg","doi":"10.1080/10888705.2023.2268516","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10888705.2023.2268516","url":null,"abstract":"This study researched end-of-life (EoL) decision-making processes in small animal practices in the Netherlands, focusing on strategies veterinarians contemplate during this process. Fourteen veterinarians were interviewed about animal end-of-life decision-making. The results of these interviews show that the decision-making process consists of three steps. The first step is to assess the animal's health and welfare. During the second step, veterinarians consider the position of the owner. Based on steps 1 and 2, veterinarians decide in step 3 whether their advice is to a) euthanize or b) contemplate one or more strategies to come to a decision or potentially alter the decision. These results can support members of the veterinary profession to reflect on their decision-making process. If veterinarians know what strategies their peers use to deal with EoL situations, this can help to reduce the stress they experience in such situations. In addition, veterinarians may find inspiration for new strategies in the study results. For the veterinary profession itself, the current results can be used as a starting point for describing best practices for EoL decision-making in small animal practice.","PeriodicalId":56277,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41221414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Perception of Brazilian Agricultural Sciences Students on Animal Welfare: A Profile-based Approach. 巴西农业科学系学生对动物福利的看法：基于个人资料的方法。

IF 1.5 3区农林科学

Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science Pub Date : 2023-10-11 DOI: 10.1080/10888705.2023.2268505

Maria Eugênia Andrighetto Canozzi, Susana Cardoso, Cristian Rogério Foguesatto, João Augusto Rossi Borges

{"title":"Perception of Brazilian Agricultural Sciences Students on Animal Welfare: A Profile-based Approach.","authors":"Maria Eugênia Andrighetto Canozzi, Susana Cardoso, Cristian Rogério Foguesatto, João Augusto Rossi Borges","doi":"10.1080/10888705.2023.2268505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10888705.2023.2268505","url":null,"abstract":"The agricultural professionals are ethically obligated to provide good care for the animals under their care. We analysed Brazilian agricultural science students' profiles based on their perceptions of animal welfare (AW). The survey included 239 students from agronomy, animal science, and veterinary courses in 44 universities. A factor analysis and a cluster analysis identified four students' profiles. \"The farm animal stewards\" group (n= 79) focused their perceptions of AW on basic health and functioning as a basis for meat, wool, egg, and dairy production, while the \"the industrial view\" group (n= 15), in the profitability and economic factors. \"The animal rights position\" (n= 76), in the face of conflicting interests (animals vs. owners), perceive that the animal's interest should prevail and give an equal treatment for all species. \"The balanced\" group (n= 69) incorporates concepts from animal and human to explain their perceptions. The students' perception of AW is multifaceted and influenced by value-based ideas about what is important or desirable for animals and all stakeholders. Scientific fields focusing on AW need to be emphasized within agricultural science curriculum.","PeriodicalId":56277,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41221415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Effect of harness design on the biomechanics of domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris). 挽具设计对家犬生物力学的影响。

IF 1.5 3区农林科学

Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science Pub Date : 2023-09-20 DOI: 10.1080/10888705.2023.2259796

Ellen Williams, Violet Hunton, Jacqueline Boyd, Anne Carter

{"title":"Effect of harness design on the biomechanics of domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris).","authors":"Ellen Williams, Violet Hunton, Jacqueline Boyd, Anne Carter","doi":"10.1080/10888705.2023.2259796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10888705.2023.2259796","url":null,"abstract":"Harnesses have become increasingly popular and whilst there are benefits to harnesses, the impact of harness design on canine biomechanics, and thus physical health and welfare is largely unknown. The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of three popular commercially available harnesses on canine locomotion in 66 domestic dogs. Dogs were filmed moving on a loose lead over a Tekscan Strideway gait analysis system. Stride length as a proportion of limb length (calculated as distance from the elbow to the floor), body weight distribution in the front versus the hind limbs (%), and minimum and maximum apparent angles of the lateral epicondyle of humerus (LEH) and greater tubercle of humerus (GTH) during the motion cycle were measured. Except for GTH angles, there were significant differences in all the investigated metrics. Differences varied across breeds/breed types. It is recommended that, when purchasing and fitting harnesses for dogs, owners and harness fitters treat dogs on an individual basis. The impact of pulling in harness on dog gait requires investigation as dogs may experience greater restrictions when pulling than during locomotion on a loose lead.","PeriodicalId":56277,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41162911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Effects of species-relevant auditory stimuli on stress in cats exposed to novel environment. 物种相关听觉刺激对暴露于新环境的猫应激的影响。

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Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science Pub Date : 2023-09-19 DOI: 10.1080/10888705.2023.2259803

Zhaowei Bian, Zhicong Fan, Tingting Xiao, Jiayi Yan, Ruiti Ren, Suijun Xu, Baichuan Deng, Lingna Zhang

{"title":"Effects of species-relevant auditory stimuli on stress in cats exposed to novel environment.","authors":"Zhaowei Bian, Zhicong Fan, Tingting Xiao, Jiayi Yan, Ruiti Ren, Suijun Xu, Baichuan Deng, Lingna Zhang","doi":"10.1080/10888705.2023.2259803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10888705.2023.2259803","url":null,"abstract":"Environmental changes like vet visit could cause stress in cats. Studies have attempted to develop stress management strategies targeting sensory systems. Even though species-appropriate music which includes cat affiliative sound (e.g., cats' purring and suckling sound) has been shown to relieve stress in cats. Little is known whether the cat sound alone works in stress management. This study was conducted to investigate the effects of species-relevant auditory stimuli on stress in cats exposed to a novel environment. During the 28-day experiment periods, 20 cats received four types of sound treatments which included silence (T1), purr of cats (T2), eating sound in cats (T3), and the mixed sound of T2 and T3 (T4) in a novel environment in random orders with intervals of 1 week between treatments. Cats' behaviors were recorded during each 10-min test. Results showed that T4 reduced visual scanning (P = 0.017) without significantly affecting other behaviors, compared with other treatments. Together, the two types of cat-specific sounds did not exert pronounced effects of relieving stress on cats exposed to a novel environment.","PeriodicalId":56277,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41141974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A pilot study into the effects of PTSD-assistance dogs' work on their salivary cortisol levels and their handlers' Quality of life. 一项关于创伤后应激障碍辅助犬工作对其唾液皮质醇水平和主人生活质量影响的试点研究。

IF 1.4 3区农林科学

Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science Pub Date : 2023-09-19 DOI: 10.1080/10888705.2023.2259795

Karoline Gerwisch, Karl Weissenbacher, Michelle Proyer, Rupert Palme, Ludwig Huber

{"title":"A pilot study into the effects of PTSD-assistance dogs' work on their salivary cortisol levels and their handlers' Quality of life.","authors":"Karoline Gerwisch, Karl Weissenbacher, Michelle Proyer, Rupert Palme, Ludwig Huber","doi":"10.1080/10888705.2023.2259795","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10888705.2023.2259795","url":null,"abstract":"Assistance dogs for people with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) support their handlers by performing tasks that are supposed to mitigate the effects of their mental disability. This study examined the Quality of Life (QoL) of PTSD-assistance dogs' handlers in Austria and Germany using a qualitative online questionnaire based on the Capability Approach. To correspondingly explore whether the involved assistance dogs experience distress triggered by their daily schedules, we measured their salivary cortisol values. These were compared to the cortisol levels of companion dogs without special tasks, as well as diabetic-signal dogs that have a similar workload. Our results showed that people suffering from PTSD-symptoms can improve their QoL with the aid of their assistance dog. However, being accompanied by an assistance dog creates new social barriers. Surprisingly, we found significantly lower salivary cortisol levels in PTSD-assistance dogs compared to the control groups. We conclude that a positive relationship between PTSD-assistance dogs and their handlers can reduce stress on both sides, and that training well tuned to the requirements of an assistance dog can prevent stress in their daily lives.","PeriodicalId":56277,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7616523/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41141949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Impact of mechanical vs. manual catching on stress, fear, and carcass quality in slower growing broilers. 机械与人工捕获对慢生长肉鸡应激、恐惧和胴体质量的影响。

IF 1.5 3区农林科学

Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/10888705.2023.2254226

Kristofer C Smith, Meghann K Pierdon

{"title":"Impact of mechanical vs. manual catching on stress, fear, and carcass quality in slower growing broilers.","authors":"Kristofer C Smith, Meghann K Pierdon","doi":"10.1080/10888705.2023.2254226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10888705.2023.2254226","url":null,"abstract":"This study evaluated manual and mechanical catching methods on slower growing broiler chickens on the day of processing. Ten catching events, five mechanical and five manual, were evaluated for animal welfare and an additional set of 241 catches, 128 manual and 113 machine, were analyzed to determine the effect on carcass quality. No significant difference in serum corticosterone concentration (CORT) was found between the catching methods (p = 0.9). Pre-catching CORT (15.07 ± 2.24) was significantly lower than post-catching (25.41 ± 2.22) (p < 0.001). Manually caught broilers had four times greater odds of tonic immobility (TI) than mechanically caught birds (OR 4.0, 95% CI: 1.54-10.54) (p < 0.001). Birds also had 77% lower odds of TI before being caught than after, irrespective of catching method. Manually caught birds had 19% greater risk of bruised wings (p < 0.05) and 23% greater risk of bruised legs (p < 0.05). Lower odds of TI and decreased risk of injury in the machine caught birds indicate improved welfare and carcass quality compared with manual catching. Overall, machine catching was found to improve welfare and carcass quality in these slower growing broilers.","PeriodicalId":56277,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10127103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A mixed-method analysis of the consistency of intake information reported by shelter staff upon owner surrender of dogs. 混合方法分析收容所工作人员在主人交出狗时报告的收容信息的一致性。

IF 1.5 3区农林科学

Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science Pub Date : 2023-08-23 DOI: 10.1080/10888705.2023.2250254

Lexis H Ly, Alexandra Protopopova

{"title":"A mixed-method analysis of the consistency of intake information reported by shelter staff upon owner surrender of dogs.","authors":"Lexis H Ly, Alexandra Protopopova","doi":"10.1080/10888705.2023.2250254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10888705.2023.2250254","url":null,"abstract":"Data collected by animal shelters can provide an overview of population numbers and recommendations for shelter management and community programming. While studies utilize data from shelter software, questions remain on whether such data are reliable. The objective of the online experiment was to determine the agreement in data input for surrender reason, breed, and color across shelter staff (n = 81) when presented with four complex narratives of fictional owners surrendering dogs. Additionally, we aimed to understand how staff select surrender reasons for data input through qualitative analysis. Out of 40 possible surrender reasons, the number of unique reasons selected for each scenario ranged from 12-16, suggesting a variety of possible data entries for the same surrender narrative. Agreement was also low for breed and color. Shelter staff described a variety of different methods of determining the surrender reason for input into shelter software, such as asking the owner for their most influential reason or inferring the underlying reason. Further research is required to understand how animal shelter data can be collected consistently in a way that can meaningfully inform shelter management decisions.","PeriodicalId":56277,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10108600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Use of proximity loggers to Estimate Affiliative and Agonistic Relationships among Group-housed Holstein calves. 使用接近记录器来估计群体饲养的荷斯坦小牛之间的隶属关系和拮抗关系。

IF 1.5 3区农林科学

Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science Pub Date : 2023-08-23 DOI: 10.1080/10888705.2023.2250262

Yehoshav A Ben Meir, Fernando Garcia, Miri Cohen-Zinder, Ariel Shabtay

{"title":"Use of proximity loggers to Estimate Affiliative and Agonistic Relationships among Group-housed Holstein calves.","authors":"Yehoshav A Ben Meir, Fernando Garcia, Miri Cohen-Zinder, Ariel Shabtay","doi":"10.1080/10888705.2023.2250262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10888705.2023.2250262","url":null,"abstract":"We used proximity loggers to map the social network of 15 group-housed suckling Holstein calves over a 70-day period divided into five trial periods. Tag ID, encountered tag ID, and encounter start time and length were collected from the proximity loggers. Use of 3D matrices and trendlines distinguished three encounter types: \"rapid decline\" (up to ~ 120 s), \"moderate decline\" (~120 to ~ 600 s), and \"exponential decline\" (longer than ~ 600 s). We hypothesized that a random encounter between two calves with an agonistic relationship would terminate quickly, whereas affiliative encounters would linger. Quadratic assignment with 5000 random permutations revealed a significant negative correlation between short encounters (\"agonistic\") and long encounters (\"affiliative\") matrices in periods 1 and 5 (r = -0.490 and -0.767, respectively), tendency toward negative correlation in period 3 (r = -0.141, p = 0.104), and no significant correlations in periods 2 and 4. These results were in accordance with the social network analyses revealing agonistic (short encounters) relationships in those periods. We suggest using this method in further studies on the effects of various factors on social network dynamics and its effect on health, intake, growth, and efficiency.","PeriodicalId":56277,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10056291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Population Estimates and the Effect of Trap-Neuter Return Program on the Free-Roaming Dog Population in Hong Kong SAR. 香港特别行政区流浪狗数量估计及陷阱-绝育回归计划对流浪狗数量的影响。

IF 1.5 3区农林科学

Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science Pub Date : 2023-08-05 DOI: 10.1080/10888705.2023.2240229

Hannah B Tilley, Shu Ping Ho, Fiona Woodhouse, Amanda Whitfort

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