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According to a 2021 study published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, roughly 3% of the planet's terrestrial surface is ecologically and faunally intact, meaning areas with healthy populations of native animal species and little to no human footprint. Many of these intact ecosystems were in areas inhabited by indigenous peoples.
A similar animal displacement happened after Hurricane Maria, with dogs being brought to New York for adoption, courtesy of organizations like the Sato Project, which has rescued and flown out ...
In some countries there is an overpopulation of pets such as cats, dogs, and exotic animals.In the United States, six to eight million animals are brought to shelters each year, of which an estimated three to four million are subsequently euthanized, including 2.7 million considered healthy and adoptable.
As a result, another trend is occurring among dogs 3 years old and younger: an increase in dog aggression towards other dogs. Of course, learning is lifelong and a dog past its formative years is ...
An animal shelter or pound is a place where stray, lost, abandoned or surrendered animals – mostly dogs and cats – are housed. The word "pound" has its origins in the animal pounds of the agricultural communities, where stray livestock would be penned or impounded until they were claimed by their owners.
Good animal welfare requires disease prevention and veterinary treatment, appropriate shelter, management, nutrition, humane handling and humane slaughter/killing. Animal welfare refers to the state of the animal; the treatment that an animal receives is covered by other terms such as animal care, animal husbandry, and humane treatment." [106]
The dogs in the study exhibited what scientists call emotional contagion, which is a person's (or animal's) unconscious tendency to mimic another's emotions. Study co-author Paula Pérez Fraga, a ...
Given the problems associated with free-ranging dogs, including spread of diseases (especially rabies, with dog bites and scratches being responsible for 99% of the global human rabies cases), [113] attacks on humans or other animals, and increased risk of road accidents, many places where there are free-ranging dogs have developed strategies ...