11. Health Cost Savings. The impact of pets on the Australian health budget. | a...
level. The question of cat ownership is more difficult. The figures in Table 1 suggest that cat ownership may be even more beneficial to health than dog ownership, but due to smaller numbers the difference in doctor visits between cat owners
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12. Attitudes and care practices of cat caretakers in Hawaii | anthrozoology.org
so long as the cats are sterilized. Most respondents had been maintaining cat colonies for 2 to 4 years. All caretakers reported having attempted to socialize the cats and nearly half had been successful in homing cats. Most were
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13. The value of cat ownership to elderly women living alone | anthrozoology.org
were not. Attitudes towards cats were more positive in the city where cats were allowed, and more positive if pensioners owned a cat, or wished to own one. As positive attitudes towards cats outweighed negative ones, the City Authority which had
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14. Pet ownership & attachment | anthrozoology.org
This study analysed the catñhuman relationship paying attention to the quality of life (QoL) of 62 cats. QoL was assessed as being low, medium and high, using: (1) four questionnaires which investigated care, cat behaviour, cat and owner
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15. Anthropology, sociology, and history | anthrozoology.org
As a figure of magic, the cat has been prominent througout history; in Egypt it was ennobled as the cat-headed goddess Bastet; in the East, the souls of dead cats were enshrined by the Japanese; in Europe the cat became the emblem of black
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16. The role of cats and dogs in asthma and allergy - a systematic review | anth...
children or adults on cat and dog exposure, respectively, are included in this review and most of these studies suggested an inverse association between cat exposure and asthma and wheezing symptoms. As for cross-sectional studies, 26 and 21
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17. The role of cats and dogs in asthma and allergy - a systematic review | anth...
children or adults on cat and dog exposure, respectively, are included in this review and most of these studies suggested an inverse association between cat exposure and asthma and wheezing symptoms. As for cross-sectional studies, 26 and 21
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18. Pet ownership & attachment | anthrozoology.org
People†and “Cat Peopleâ€
Personalities of Self-Identified “Dog People†and “Cat Peopleâ€Gosling, Samuel D.;Sandy, Carson J.;Potter, Jeff
Anthrozoos: A Multidisciplinary Journal of
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19. Animals & social support | anthrozoology.org
were not. Attitudes towards cats were more positive in the city where cats were allowed, and more positive if pensioners owned a cat, or wished to own one. As positive attitudes towards cats outweighed negative ones, the City Authority which had
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20. Cats and Toxoplasma: impliCations for public health. | anthrozoology.org
increased the size of the cat population in the USA. Pet cat ownership grew from 50 million to 90 million animals, and animal welfare activists created feeding stations for abandoned and free-roaming cats. As many cat owners allow their cats to
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