PHR 106/406:
Human-Animal Interactions: Benefits and Issues
Human-Animal Interaction in Veterinary Science

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Dr. Lynette Hart
Professor, Population, Health and Reproduction

 

BIBLIOGRAPHIC SEARCHING ON
HUMAN-COMPANION ANIMAL RELATIONSHIPS
librarian lecture notes
23 January 2008

 

Useful Links
Databases

Sample Search Strategies

Relevant Links from Companion Animal Behavior Program main page

Animal-Assisted Therapy
Assistance, Therapy and Other Working Dogs
Center for Animals in Society
Human-Animal Interactions & Companion Animal Welfare
Pet Overpopulation
Feral and Stray Cats and Dogs
Human-Animal Interaction
HAI in Laboratory Setting

Databases

Select Bibliographic Databases
Complete List of UCD Databases
Melvyl - Catalog of UC Libraries

Ulrichs Periodicals Directory 

Examples

Family / animal cruelty

Ascione
family violence AND pets

PubMed, PsycInfo, Sociological Abstracts

 

Horse and dog, predator or prey relative to owner

Behavior, (pets, horses, dogs), owners

PsycInfo, Agricola, Biosis

 

Factors in shelter success

Agricola, PsycInfo, CAB
Anthrozoos, AnimalSheltering.org

 

Companion horse, regional differences in relationships

Definition, law, CA v MT

 

Therapeutic horse riding / hippotherapy

SVM site search
PubMed: hippotherapy, horseback riding, physical therapy, cerebral palsy

 

Working v companion animals (dogs) and horses

PsycInfo, Sociological Abstracts, Agricola

 

Reporting decisions

legislative, regulatory, economic considerations, ethical

Veterinarians and staff

PubMed: ethics, veterinary medicine, reporting

CABI: veterinary ethics reporting, animal (cruelty, abuse) reporting

AWIC, AVMA

 

 

Past

Zoos - human benefits; stress on zoo animals
PsycInfo - zoos AND (value OR benefit); zoos AND education; zoos AND (stress OR distress); zoos AND behavior (AND enrichment)
PubMed - zoos AND (stress OR distress); zoos AND animal behavior
GoogleScholar

Pet behavioral problems and relinquishment
reasons for animal relinquishment at shelters and subsequent separation issues
PubMed - pet relinquishment
PsycInfo - (pet OR dog) AND relinquish*
National Council on Pet Population, http://www.petpopulation.org/research.html
Animal behavior search suggestions below under Past examples

Animal recognition of humans; sensing human emotional states
human assumption of animal emotional states

Sheltered pets
Animal Sheltering.org http://animalsheltering.org/
Animal Sheltering Magazine
Agricola - (dog OR cat) AND shelter*

AAT and children
physiological changes occuring in children when interacting with animal; long term effects on child's life;
using pets to help kids cope with their problems
PsycInfo - (pet OR dog) AND children AND therap*; (pet OR dog) AND children AND physiol*
therapy-specific term, like depression, cerebral pasly, etc.
PubMed - same searching strategy, use Related Articles link when find one of particular interest.
Cinahl
Also suggestions below under Past examples

Exotic pet ownership
GoogleScholar advanced - exotic pets and ownership
PubMed - very different results with same search terms
CAB - veterinary perspective

Handling techniques to decrease fear and anxiety
PubMed, CAB - nothing
GoogleScholar - handling pets (fear OR anxiety)

Animal/pet behavior
Common Animal Behavior Problems page
http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/CCAB/behavior.html
templates on Human-Animal Bond and Companion Animal Welfare page,
http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/CCAB/compan%7E1.htm
both in Agricola and PubMed
Pet Overpopulation templates http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/CCAB/overpop.htm
Free-roaming Cats and Dogs pages http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/CCAB/strays.htm

PubMed: dog behavior therapy, look at Related Articles
And links under education
PsycInfo: pet behavior training; pet relinquish*, pets and family (ti or kw)

Animal welfare
Welfare dogs and cats page http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/Animal_Alternatives/welfare.htm

Training
Welfare dogs and cats page http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/Animal_Alternatives/welfare.htm
Related to behavior question

Rescue/rehabilitation, population control
Working dogs page http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/CCAB/dogs.htm
Service dogs page http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/CCAB/service_dogs.html
Overpopulation page http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/CCAB/overpop.htm

Pets and human health
PubMed: pets and stress
PsycInfo: pets and stress, pets and blood pressure
Cinahl useful; other terms such as depression, longevity

Service/guide dogs
Working dogs page http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/CCAB/dogs.htm
Service dogs page http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/CCAB/service_dogs.html

AAT in hospitals
PubMed: pets and elderly
Animal Assisted Therapy page http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/CCAB/paws.htm
templates in both Agricola and PubMed, with different results
Pets and Elderly page http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/CCAB/elderly.htm
Cinahl, useful nursing database

Pets and elderly
templates on http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/CCAB/paws.htm,  Animal Assisted Therapy page
Searches in both Agricola and Pubmed, note the differences in retrieval
Agricola via UCD platform provides a much better search capability
The nursing database, Cinahl is also a possible database

Behavior and position in family
   behavior and relinquishment; breeds and relinquishment
templates on http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/CCAB/compan%7E1.htm, Human-Animal Bond and Companion Animal Welfare
page. Searches in both Agricola and Pubmed
templates on http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/CCAB/overpop.htm, Pet Overpopulation page; look under PubMed, "dog behavior therapy", check Related Articles; check links under Education.
Check http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/CCAB/strays.htm, Free-roaming Cats and Dogs pages
Search also PsycInfo, keywords pet relinquish*
pets and family, limit to title; limit to kw

Pets and blood pressure/physical and mental health
pets and stress
Psycinfo pets and stress, pets and blood pressure
Try also Cinahl

AAT : autism, careers, special needs children
Children with Special Needs page, http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/CCAB/aat.htm, gives citations and suggested search terms
templates and links on http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/CCAB/paws.htm Animal Assisted Therapy page and
http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/CCAB/dogs.htm Working Dogs
Cinahl

Careers, work in the field
Might require simple Google searching, organizational searching and links
Google: animal assisted therapy career
Also, Cinahl : animal assisted therapy, keyword
ERIC, PubMed, PsycInfo : animal assisted therapy, keyword

Prisoners and animal training
Pubmed: prisons animals
Sociological Abstracts : kw prisons and pets
Eric : prisons and animals, then expand search to World Cat
Google: animal projects prisons, animal therapy prisons e.g.: http://www.pathwaystohope.org/prison.htm
GoogleScholar

Pet loss and grief
Pet Loss  http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/ccab/petloss.html
Expanded Academic ASAP  : pet loss;  pet euthanasia
PsycInfo: pet loss grief
Pubmed : pet grief
Cinahl

Zookeepers and animal bonds
 Human animal interactions in the lab, http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/Animal_Alternatives/LabHAI.html
Google: zookeepers animal bond
PsycInfo: zookeep*

Animals in the classroom
Animal Alternatives in Education page http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/Animal_Alternatives/index.htm
Pre-college science education, http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/Animal_Alternatives/precolle.htm
PsycInfo – animals classroom,  animals elementary education 
ERIC  title search animals elementary
For Organizations like HSUS: Google search
For exotics, training, careers: CAB, BIOSIS, Rehabdata, Wildpro, Zoological Record, Wildlife & Ecology

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images from CAS

 

1/23/08
UCDavis Center for Animal Alternatives Information
Companion Animal Behavior Program

Mary Wood