Companion animal attitude and its family pattern in Kuwait

Society and Animals

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-28

  Al Fayez, Ghenaim ^b   Awadalla, Abdelwahid ^b   Templer, Donald I ^b   Arikawa, Hiroko ^a  

^a Forest Institute of Professional Psychology   (United States)

^b Forest Inst of Prof Psychology ^*

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EID: 0037903635     PISSN: 10631119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853003321618819     Document Type: Article

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