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ReviewAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2018

Spotlight on Assistance Dogs-Legislation, Welfare and Research.

Annika Bremhorst, Paolo Mongillo, Tiffani Howell, Lieta Marinelli

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Review in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed.

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  11. Understanding the Role of Therapy Dogs in Human Health Promotion.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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  15. Issues Regarding the Welfare of Assistance Dogs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022
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  16. Australian parents' experiences of owning an autism assistance dog.Health & social care in the community · 2022
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  17. What Patients Prioritize for Research to Improve Their Lives and How Their Priorities Get Dismissed again.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Annika BremhorstCompanion Animal Behaviour Group, Division of Animal Welfare, VPHI, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland. annika@bremhorst.de.
Paolo MongilloLaboratory of Applied Ethology, Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padua, 35020 Legnaro, Italy. paolo.mongillo@unipd.it.ORCID 0000-0001-8599-4005
Tiffani HowellAnthrozoology Research Group, Department of Psychology and Counselling, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Bendigo, VIC 3552, Australia. t.howell@latrobe.edu.au.
Lieta MarinelliLaboratory of Applied Ethology, Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padua, 35020 Legnaro, Italy. lieta.marinelli@unipd.it.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Assistance dogs are a very diverse group of working dogs that are trained to assist humans with different types of disabilities in their daily lives. Despite these dogs' value for humankind, research on their welfare status, cognitive and behavioural capacities, selection criteria for the best fitting individuals, effective training and management practices, and genetic issues are so far lacking. This review highlights the need to address these topics and to promote progress in legal issues around assistance dogs. The topic of assistance dogs is approached comprehensively by outlining the current status of knowledge in three different dimensions: (1) the legal dimension, outlining important legal issues in the EU and Australia; (2) the welfare dimension; and (3) the dimension of research, covering assistance dog selection and training. For each of these three dimensions, we discuss potential approaches that can be implemented in the future in order to support assistance dog working performance, to protect the dogs' welfare, and to improve our knowledge about them. Additionally, there remain many legal issues, such as the presence of assistance dogs in public areas, the resolution of which would benefit both the assistance dog and the owner with disability.

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assistance dogbehaviourcognitiondoggeneticsguide doglegislationselectiontrainingwelfare

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PMID30049995
PMCPMC6115927

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