Returning a recently adopted companion animal: Adopters' reasons for and reactions to the failed adoption experience

Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 187-198

  Shore, Elsie R ^a  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; CAT; COUNSELING; DOG; EXPECTATION; EXPERIENCE; FAMILY ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; UNITED STATES; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BONDING, HUMAN-PET; CATS; DOGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OWNERSHIP;

EID: 33644903236     PISSN: 10888705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327604jaws0803_3     Document Type: Article

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