Owner-companion dog interactions: Relationships between demographic variables, potentially problematic behaviours, training engagement and shared activities

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 102, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 65-84

  Bennett, Pauleen Charmayne ^a   Rohlf, Vanessa Ilse ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Canine; Dog behaviour; Dog training; Human animal bonding; Human animal interaction

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 33845191734     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2006.03.009     Document Type: Article

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