Who left the PETs out?—Who?—Who?

The Comparison of Personality characteristics and Clinical syndrome owners Pets keeper and People without Pets

Abstract Introduction: The aim of this study was to evaluate the Comparison of Personality characteristics and Clinical syndrome owners Pets keeper and People without Pets. Methodology: The research method was causal-comparative. The statistical population included all pets and non-domestic animals resident in the 20th district of Tehran in 2018. The sample consisted of 160 individuals with pet...

Are Pets a Healthy Pleasure? The Influence of Pets on Blood Pressure

Pet owners often describe their pets as important and cherished family members who offer solace in times of stress. This article considers evidence suggesting that pets influence human blood pressure. Studies on this topic extend current research testing the hypothesis that having other people around in stressful times can buffer the negative consequences of stress. The existing data suggest th...

What's happened to PETs?

‘Battered pets’: sexual abuse

This is the third in a series of papers describing a study of physical abuse in dogs and cats that is, abuse by deliberate physical injury (so-called non-accidental injury [NAI] or ‘battered pets’ by analogy with the well documented ‘battered-child syndrome’ [Kempe and others 19621). The study was based on the experiences of a sample of small animal practitioners in the UK. The first paper publ...

My Pets in India