The Shelter Crisis Is a Vet Problem Too
It's easy to frame the shelter overcapacity crisis as a humane-society problem. The animals are over there. The capacity issue is theirs to solve. Veterinary medicine has its own crises to manage. But a new report released this week pushes back on that mental separation pretty hard.
What Cats Are Teaching Us About Cancer
A landmark study just mapped the feline oncogenome. The findings could change how you treat cancer in cats and open doors for human patients too.
People can get just as emotionally attached to horses as they are to their dogs or cats.
New research shows that horses can be just as meaningful objects of affection for humans as other pets or close human beings. The way people get attached to their horse can now also be reliably assessed through a survey. The bond between humans and horses dates back thousands of years, and horses occupy a unique position in human life, falling somewhere between working animals and companion animals.
New study finds no lasting impact of pandemic pet ownership on human well-being
A new study challenges the belief in a universal “pet effect” on human well-being. Using data collected during COVID-19 lockdowns, researchers found no significant change in respondents' well-being when they acquired or lost a pet in their household. The findings suggest that, even during a time of extreme isolation, human-animal bonds may not be as emotionally transformative as we like to believe.
Study Finds Low Utility of Routine Preoperative Thoracic Radiographs in Dogs Without Thoracic Disease Symptoms
A recent study evaluated the necessity of routine preoperative thoracic radiographs in dogs scheduled for elective tibial plateau leveling osteotomy (TPLO) when there were no clinical signs or history suggesting thoracic or cardiopulmonary disease. The study, published in AJVR, aimed to assess the usefulness of this test in such patients.
Assessing emotions in wild animals
A world-first holistic framework for assessing the mental and psychological wellbeing of wild animals has been developed by UTS Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Andrea Harvey, a veterinarian and animal welfare scientist in the TD School at the University of Technology Sydney.