Cat housing in rescue shelters: A welfare comparison between communal and discrete-unit housing

Animal Welfare

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 173-189

  Ottway, D S ^a   Hawkins, D M ^a  

^a ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Cat; Communal vs discrete unit housing; Group instability; Rescue shelter; Stress

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; CAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING; EATING; GROOMING; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM GROUP SIZE; REST; SCORING SYSTEM; SLEEP; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS;

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 0037738883     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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