DAVID SHEPHERDSON AND KATHY CARLSTEAD Center for Species Survival, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, Virginia, USA When it comes to maintaining mental health, or psychological well-being, zoo animal populations…
DANIEL M. WEARY University of British Columbia, Animal Welfare Program, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 12.1 Introduction Suffering is a central issue of animal welfare,…
FRANKLIN D. MCMILLAN Best Friends Animal Society, Kanab, Utah, USA Few concepts exhibit a wider disparity between their importance for well-being and their definitional clarity than distress. Despite its frequent…
JAMES W. YEATES Cats Protection, Haywards Heath, UK 7.1 Introduction Over the past two decades, the veterinary field has seen expanding awareness and discussions of animals’ quality of life (QOL)….
DEBRA F. HORWITZ Veterinary Behavior Consultations, St. Louis, Missouri, USA 1.1 Introduction The concept of mental health in animals has not necessarily been an important variable in understanding the animals…
IAN J.H. DUNCAN Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada 3.1 Introduction The foundations for feelings to be considered as the basis for animal well-being or welfare…
Cutaneous epithelial neoplasms can originate from any of the epithelial structures present in the skin and are classified based on the cell of origin and presence or absence of squamous…
• Neutrophilic • Macrophagic • Eosinophilic • Lymphocytic • Mixed (in the absence of a prevalent cell type) The recognition of the inflammatory pattern helps the pathologist to restrict the list of differential diagnoses and…
Clinical features • Relatively common in dogs, less frequent in cats. • Age: most commonly seen in adult animals. • They can occur in any location, but most commonly arise on the head…
Neoplasms included in this group originate from different cell lines, but have been historically grouped all together as they share similar cytological features. Round cell tumours include: • Mast cell tumour…
