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ReviewAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2020

Psychological Stress, Its Reduction, and Long-Term Consequences: What Studies with Laboratory Animals Might Teach Us about Life in the Dog Shelter.

Michael B Hennessy, Regina M Willen, Patricia A Schiml

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Review in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Michael B HennessyDepartment of Psychology, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435, USA.
Regina M WillenHaloK9Behavior, Xenia, OH 45385, USA.
Patricia A SchimlDepartment of Psychology, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435, USA.

Funding

Mechanisms of neuroinflammatory burden following early-life stressR15HD100825 · NICHD · WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY · PI HENNESSY, MICHAEL B · 2020 to 2020
$450k
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development 1 r15 hd100825-01NICHD NIH HHS R15 HD100825
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is a long history of laboratory studies of the physiological and behavioral effects of stress, its reduction, and the later psychological and behavioral consequences of unmitigated stress responses. Many of the stressors employed in these studies approximate the experience of dogs confined in an animal shelter. We review how the laboratory literature has guided our own work in describing the reactions of dogs to shelter housing and in helping formulate means of reducing their stress responses. Consistent with the social buffering literature in other species, human interaction has emerged as a key ingredient in moderating glucocorticoid stress responses of shelter dogs. We discuss variables that appear critical for effective use of human interaction procedures in the shelter as well as potential neural mechanisms underlying the glucocorticoid-reducing effect. We also describe recent studies in which enrichment centered on human interaction has been found to reduce aggressive responses in a temperament test used to determine suitability for adoption. Finally, we suggest that a critical aspect of the laboratory stress literature that has been underappreciated in studying shelter dogs is evidence for long-term behavioral consequences-often mediated by glucocorticoids-that may not become apparent until well after initial stress exposure.

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animal welfarecortisolearly-life stressenrichmentglucocorticoidhypothalamic–pituitary–adrenalindividual differencesshelter dogsocial bufferingstress

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PMID33171805
PMCPMC7694980

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