A study was undertaken to establish how visiting tourists to Samoa perceived free-roaming dogs (Canis familiaris) and their management, additionally some factors that influence their perceptions were assessed. Questionnaires were administered to 281 tourists across Samoa over 5 weeks. Free-roaming dogs were seen by 98.2% (n = 269/274) of respondents, with 64.9% (n = 137/211) reporting that thei...

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...

Under the strict binary foot parsing (Kager 1993), stray elements may occur between bimoraic feet. The stray element may be associated to the preceding foot or following foot at surface level. Stray element adjunction is the mechanism for achieving surface exhaustivity. Each language has its own unique mecbanism of stray element adjunction in order to achieve surface exhaustivity. In Japanese l...

Asymmetry, the abnormality of an organism or a part it from its perfect symmetry, is represented by three different categories: fluctuating asymmetry, directional and antisymmetry. Fluctuating asymmetry attributes to random developmental variation morphological character, whereas one body sides be more prominent than other. Antisymmetry appears whenever side biological shows greater appearance ...

In this study, dog traffic in the animal shelter of Sivas province was investigated both quantitatively on basis years and reasons for abandonment, as well attitudes behaviors owners. besides records stray rehabilitation center operated by Municipality, survey data made with owners who left their dogs there were analyzed. According to four-year (2019-2022), average number staying Municipality A...

This study aims to report the incidence of Calodium hepaticum among dogs and cats, pets or stray animals, captured by the Zoonosis Control Center (CCZ) in Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Fecal samples from 108 pet dogs and eight pet cats, and from 357 stray dogs and 97 stray cats, captured by CCZ, were analyzed within the period from July 2010 to November 2012. Coproparasitological exams were pe...