Research papers and articles of interest

Below you will find links to research papers and articles of interest.

Change the Humans First: Principles for Improving the Management of Free-Roaming Cats

Factors Associated with High Live Release for Dogs at a Large, Open-Admission, Municipal Shelter

Cage size, movement in and out of housing during daily care, and other environmental and population health risk factors for feline upper respiratory disease in nine North American animal shelters 

The impact of excluding food guarding from a standardized Behavioral Canine Assessment in animal shelters

Preliminary investigation of food guarding behavior in shelter dogs in the United States 

A case study in Citizen Science: The effectiveness of a Trap-Neuter-Return program in a
Chicago neighborhood 

Using free adoptions to reduce crowding and euthanasia at cat shelters: An Australian case study

Factors that influence intake to one municipal animal control facility in Florida: A qualitative study

An observational study of the relationship between Capacity for Care as an animal shelter management model and cat health adoption and death in three animal shelters

Cat admissions to RSPCA shelters in Queensland, Australia: description of cats and risk factors for euthanasia after entry

Community partnering as a tool for improving live release rate in animal shelters in the United States

Effect of interactions with humans on behaviour, mucosal immunity and upper respiratory disease of shelter cats rated as contented on arrival

No Better Than Flipping a Coin: Reconsidering Canine Behavior Evaluations in Animal Shelters

Evaluation of the predictive validity of the behavioural assessment for re-homing K9’s (B.A.R.K.) protocol and owner satisfaction with adopted dogs

Applied personality assessment in domestic dogs: Limitations and caveats

Adoption and relinquishment interventions at the animal shelter: a review

Effects of a geographically targeted intervention and creative outreach to reduce shelter intake in Portland, Oregon

Messaging Spay/Neuter - Lessons from the Gulf Coast Spay/Neuter Campaign

Frequency of lost dogs and cats in the United States and the methods used to locate them 

Search methods used to locate missing cats and locations where missing cats are found

Descriptive texts in dog profiles associated with Length of Stay via an online rescue network

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