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Accumulating evidence suggests that assistance dogs, therapy dogs, and shelter dogs can support student wellness and learning. Whether readers are just getting started or striving to improve well-established programs, this volume provides evidence-based guidance on bringing college students and canines together in reciprocally beneficial ways.

For a happy relationship with your cat, go beyond the looks and make your pick based on demonstrated breed behaviour. This is the advice of the Harts, two experts in animal communication and behaviour, whose new book takes the process of selecting a cat to the next level by offering data-based behavioural profiles of a wide range of cat breeds.

Investigates what has changed in American community life, social mores, and the relationship between humans and dogs to make the question of whether dogs should be allowed off the leash in public places a major political issue. It details and evaluates the handling of three leash-law disputes, all of which were exceedingly divisive and emotionally intense.

Animal abuse as a predictor of abuse against humans has been documented extensively. Society's ever-rising violence has prompted experts to ask what alternatives are available to identify the early signs and stop the cycle. This is the authoritative, up-to-date compendium covering the historical, legal, research, and applied issues related to animal abuse and cruelty from scholars worldwide.

Dogs know when we are feeling down. They love it when we are happy and seeking friendship and fun, and they understand when we are feeling sad and desperate. This book presents a series of real-life tales of the positive effects dogs have had on people at the end of their lives, chronicling the visits by two therapy dogs, Woody and Katie.

Provides a practical guide for the safe treatment of dogs in situations when veterinary help is unavailable. Concise instructions and colour illustrations cover such procedures as bandaging an ear, splinting a leg, removing foreign objects from the eyes, and constructing a makeshift muzzle.

This volume covers the following topics: moral standings of animals, history of the methods of argumentation, knowledge of the animal mind, nature and value of regulatory structures, and how respect for animals can be converted from theory to action in the laboratory.

This study of dog ecology (and behaviour) and of human ecology (and behaviour) discusses the facets of the phenomenon of the urban free-roaming dog.

Provides a systematic study of dog ownership in a Caribbean society by investigating the Bahamian perceptions of 'pet' and 'responsible pet ownership' in the context of both dog overpopulation concerns and how 'image' dogs like Rottweilers and Pit Bulls have interacted with and altered the Potcake population.

Evidence is mounting that animal abuse, frequently embedded in families scarred by domestic violence and child abuse and neglect, often predicts the potential for other violent acts. In this work, contributors examine research and programmatic issues, and encourage cross-disciplinary interactions.

A presentation of historical , philosophical and research sources exploring the maltreatment of animals and interpersonal violence. Among the disciplines represented in the reading are psychology and psychiatry, criminology, veterinary science and anthropology.

A child can't be owned, but parents are legally responsible for their child's care. A painting and a dog can be owned; both fall under the jurisdiction of the law and in particular, property rights. But why should a dog, man's best friend, an animal with a mind and emotions, fall under the same category as a painting?

A mother's reflection inspired by hand-raising a litter of Pembroke Welsh corgis whose own mother died after a Caesarian delivery. Devastated by the loss of her companion and awed by the task of saving the puppies, the narrator is surprised to discover she enjoys this exclusive commitment.

A collaboration between an attorney and an animal protection advocate, this work utilizes the extremely controversial and high-profile "e;crush video"e; case, US v. Stevens, to explore how American society attempts to balance the protection of free speech and the prevention of animal cruelty. Starting from the detailed case study of a single prominent ruling, the authors provide a masterful survey of important issues facing society in the area of animal welfare. The Stevens case included various "e;hot topic"e; elements connected to the role of government as arbiter of public morality, including judicial attitudes to sexual deviance and dogfighting. Because it is one of only two animal rights cases that the US Supreme Court has handled, and the only case discussing the competing interests of free speech and animal cruelty, it will be an important topic for discussion in constitutional and animal law courses for decades to come.The Stevens case arose from the first conviction under 18 USC 48 (Section 48), a federal law enacted in 1999, which criminalized the creation, sale, and/or possession of certain depictions of animal cruelty. The US Congress intended Section 48 to end the creation and interstate trafficking of depictions of animal cruelty in which animals are abused or even killed for entertainment's sake. Proponents of Section 48 predicted that countless benefits to both humans and animals would flow from its enforcement. Opponents of the law argued that it was too far-reaching and would stifle protected speech. Critics of Section 48 appeared to have prevailed when the US Supreme Court struck the law down as unconstitutionally overbroad. Although a law tailored to address the Supreme Court's concerns was quickly enacted, the free speech/animal cruelty controversy is far from over.

Accumulating evidence suggests that assistance dogs, therapy dogs, and shelter dogs can support student wellness and learning. Whether readers are just getting started or striving to improve well-established programs, this volume provides evidence-based guidance on bringing college students and canines together in reciprocally beneficial ways.

Animal abuse has been an acknowledged problem and scientific research provided evidence that the maltreatment of animals often overlaps with violence toward people. This book presents wisdom about the relationship between the maltreatment of animals and violence directed toward other human beings.

Focuses on research developments, models, and practical applications of human-animal connection and animal-assisted intervention for diverse populations who have experienced trauma. Physiological and psychological trauma are explored across three broad and interconnected domains.

Offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the heated debate about free-roaming cats. The debate pits conservationists against cat lovers, who disagree both on the ecological damage caused by the cats and the best way to manage them.

Details a determined effort, in the midst of war, to bring essential veterinary services to an agrarian society that depends day in and day out on the well-being and productivity of its animals, but which, because of decades of war and the disintegration of civil society, had no reliable access to even the most basic animal health care.

Explores the human-animal relationship through the narratives of eleven people living with HIV and their animal companions. The narratives, based on a series of interviews with HIV-positive individuals and their animal companions in Australia, span the entirety of the HIV epidemic.

Succinctly outlines how best to develop, implement, run, and evaluate animal-assisted intervention (AAI) programs. Drawing on extensive professional experiences and research from more than fifteen years, the authors discuss both best practices and best reasons for establishing AAI programs.

Inspired by the true story of a therapy dog. Moose shares his story about finding his forever home and learning how to become a registered therapy dog. In the final chapter, Moose reflects on his journey and describes his love for helping children become better readers. Along the way, readers learn about hard work and the importance of finding and pursuing one's dream.

Examines the interactions and relationships of dogs and humans in contemporary Polish culture and society, and explores how Poland's intense exposure to Western cultural patterns influenced the status of dogs after restoration of democracy in 1989. Based on thorough research and personal expertise, this is a great book for anyone interested in human-canine relationships around the world.

Although scholars in the disciplines of law, psychology, philosophy, and sociology have published a considerable number of prescriptive, normative, and theoretical studies of animals in society, Pet Politics presents the first study of the development of companion animal or pet law and policy in Canada and the US by political scientists.

Come, Let Me Guide You explores the intimate communication between author Susan Krieger and her guide dog Teela over the ten-year span of their working life together. This is a book about being led by a dog to new places in the world and new places in the self, a book about facing life's challenges outwardly and within, and about reading those clues-those deeply felt signals-that can help guide the way. It is also, more broadly, about the importance of intimate connection in human-animal relationships, academic work, and personal life.In her previous book, Traveling Blind: Adventures in Vision with a Guide Dog by My Side, Krieger focused on her first two years with Teela, her lively Golden Retriever-Yellow Labrador. Come, Let Me Guide You continues the narrative, beginning at the moment the author must confront Teela's retirement and then reflecting on the entire span of their relationship. These emotionally moving stories offer the reader personal entree into a life of increasing pleasure and insight as Krieger describes how her relationship with her guide dog has had far-reaching effects, not only on her abilities to navigate the world while blind, but also on her writing and teaching, her ability to face loss, and her sense of self.Come, Let Me Guide You is an invaluable contribution to the literature on human-animal communication and on the guide-dog-human experience, as well as to disability and feminist ethnographic studies. It shows how a relationship with a guide dog is unique among bonds, for it rests upon highly regulated connections yet touches deep emotional chords. For Krieger, those chords have resulted in these memorable stories, often humorous and playful, always instructive, and generative of broader insight.