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Abstracts: Behaviour and adoptability of hoarded cats admitted to an animal shelter

October 3, 2022October 13, 2022adminLeave a Comment

Objectives: The aim of this study was to analyse the behavioural characteristics and success of adoption for previously hoarded cats. Methods: Shelter records and post-adoption surveys were analysed for hoarded cats ⩾6 months old at intake. A non-standard scoring system was used. Intake scores were allocated contemporaneously, and socialisation scores were applied retrospectively for three time points […]

Tick of approval

September 6, 2022September 6, 2022adminLeave a Comment

A $150,000 grant has been awarded to researchers at Western Australia’s Harry Butler Institute’s Centre for Biosecurity and One Health at Murdoch University, to better understand the movement and spread of tick-associated cattle diseases. A detrimental threat to cattle, bovine anaemia due to (BATOG) disease is caused by a blood parasite in the Theileria orientalis […]

Abstracts: Bestiality law in the United States

September 3, 2022September 6, 2022adminLeave a Comment

Societies have proscribed bestiality, or sex between humans and nonhuman animals, since the earliest recorded legal codes. In the early American colonies, religious prohibitions against bestiality provided the grounds for punishing those who engaged in such acts.

Abstracts: Anaesthesia of decapod crustaceans

August 31, 2022August 11, 2022adminLeave a Comment

Decapod crustaceans (crabs, hermit crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimps, prawns) are sentient beings, not only responding to noxious stimuli but also being capable of feeling pain, discomfort, and distress. General anaesthesia aims at producing analgesia, immobilization, and unconsciousness, while sedation reduces consciousness, stress, and anxiety, though without analgesia.

F2F: Sharing the wild with Chris Humfrey

August 29, 2022August 11, 2022adminLeave a Comment

Picture yourself back in your university days, living in shared accommodation with a bunch of other students. You may have fond memories of such times: of house parties, of meals involving way too many two-minute noodles of housemates who are great company but are not particularly good at cleaning up. Now imagine one of the […]