The aim of this study was to analyze the relationships between four personality traits (calmness, trainability, dog sociability and boldness) of dogs (Canis familiaris) and dog and owner demographics on a large sample size with 14,004 individuals. German speaking dog owners could characterize their dog by filling out a form on the Internet. There were five demographic variables for dogs and nin...

Walking the dog, and other dog-related practices, have been suggested to be particularly car-dependent. Secondary data analysis presented finds associations between high energy use practices of car travel dog ownership. There is a strong association rate ownership km travelled per person. This relationship holds when controlling for income, level urbanisation housing type demographic variables.

Dog fouling is recognised as antisocial, unhealthy and illegal in England, yet it persists. Much action against dog happens communities impacts are largely unrecorded. Here, we repor...

The aim of this study was to analyze the relationships between four personality traits (calmness, trainability, dog sociability and boldness) of dogs (Canis familiaris) and dog and owner demographics on a large sample size with 14,004 individuals. German speaking dog owners could characterize their dog by filling out a form on the Internet. There were five demographic variables for dogs and nin...

anaplasma platys, previously known as ehrlichia platys,which causes infectious canine cyclic thrombocytopenia, has notbeen extensively studied in southeast asia. recent reports in theregion have been limited to ticks and dogs in thailand, and toticks in the philippines. in this report, dnafragments of a. platyswere molecularly detected in a dog in the philippines. apitbullpuppy exhibited pancyt...

canids are reservoir for some zoonoses helminthic disease. they are one of main public health problem. theaim of this study was to ascertain frequency of gastrointestinal helminthic infection of stray dogs in zabol city,southeaster of iran. in this descriptive study, 30 stray dogs were euthanized, intestine was removed by necropsy.then, the intestines was opened by scalpel and their contents pa...

Due to the lack of unequivocal scientific evidence, gonadectomy’s effects on dogs’ behavior are still debated. Since veterinarians differ in their opinion, there may be considerable diversity advice received by owners. This study aimed evaluate gonadectomy dog across time. Ninety-six owners (48 control dogs and 48 experimental dogs) were interviewed twice (T0 T1, nine months later) obtain infor...

Family dogs and dog owners offer a potentially powerful way to conduct citizen science to answer questions about animal behavior that are difficult to answer with more conventional approaches. Here we evaluate the quality of the first data on dog cognition collected by citizen scientists using the Dognition.com website. We conducted analyses to understand if data generated by over 500 citizen s...

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are the most common among gastrointestinal mesenchymal tumors, but its prognosis has not been accurately predicted by the current risk stratification guidelines, National Institutes of Health classification. In this study, we evaluated the predictive factors for GIST prognosis in a retrospective analysis of 332 patients. The data collected included tumor ...