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Dog days of history : the incredible story of our best friends
\"Dogs, famous and infamous and otherwise, throughout history, for children.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Dogs
This book traces the evolution of the dog, from its origins about 15,000 years ago up to recent times. The timing of dog domestication receives attention, with comparisons between different genetics-based models and archaeological evidence. Allometric patterns between dogs and their ancestors, wolves, shed light on the nature of the morphological changes that dogs underwent. Dog burials highlight a unifying theme of the whole book: the development of a distinctive social bond between dogs and people; the book also explores why dogs and people relate so well to each other. Though cosmopolitan in overall scope, the greatest emphasis is on the New World, with an entire chapter devoted to dogs of the arctic regions, mostly in the New World. Discussion of several distinctive modern roles of dogs underscores the social bond between dogs and people.
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Empire of Dogs
In 1924, Professor Ueno Eizaburo of Tokyo Imperial
University adopted an Akita puppy he named Hachiko. Each
evening Hachiko greeted Ueno on his return to Shibuya Station. In
May 1925 Ueno died while giving a lecture. Every day for over nine
years the Akita waited at Shibuya Station, eventually becoming
nationally and even internationally famous for his purported
loyalty. A year before his death in 1935, the city of Tokyo erected
a statue of Hachiko outside the station. The story of Hachiko
reveals much about the place of dogs in Japan's cultural
imagination.
In the groundbreaking Empire of Dogs , Aaron Herald
Skabelund examines the history and cultural significance of dogs in
nineteenth- and twentieth-century Japan, beginning with the arrival
of Western dog breeds and new modes of dog keeping, which spread
throughout the world with Western imperialism. He highlights how
dogs joined with humans to create the modern imperial world and
how, in turn, imperialism shaped dogs' bodies and their
relationship with humans through its impact on dog-breeding and
dog-keeping practices that pervade much of the world today.
In a book that is both enlightening and entertaining, Skabelund
focuses on actual and metaphorical dogs in a variety of contexts:
the rhetorical pairing of the Western \"colonial dog\" with native
canines; subsequent campaigns against indigenous canines in the
imperial realm; the creation, maintenance, and in some cases
restoration of Japanese dog breeds, including the Shiba Inu; the
mobilization of military dogs, both real and fictional; and the
emergence of Japan as a \"pet superpower\" in the second half of the
twentieth century. Through this provocative account, Skabelund
demonstrates how animals generally and canines specifically have
contributed to the creation of our shared history, and how certain
dogs have subtly influenced how that history is told. Generously
illustrated with both color and black-and-white images, Empire
of Dogs shows that human-canine relations often expose how
people-especially those with power and wealth-use animals to
define, regulate, and enforce political and social boundaries
between themselves and other humans, especially in imperial
contexts.
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Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Mexico: past, present, and future
Rocky Mountain spotted fever, a tick-borne zoonosis caused by Rickettsia rickettsii, is among the most lethal of all infectious diseases in the Americas. In Mexico, the disease was first described during the early 1940s by scientists who carefully documented specific environmental determinants responsible for devastating outbreaks in several communities in the states of Sinaloa, Sonora, Durango, and Coahuila. These investigators also described the pivotal roles of domesticated dogs and Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato (brown dog ticks) as drivers of epidemic levels of Rocky Mountain spotted fever. After several decades of quiescence, the disease re-emerged in Sonora and Baja California during the early 21st century, driven by the same environmental circumstances that perpetuated outbreaks in Mexico during the 1940s. This Review explores the history of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Mexico, current epidemiology, and the multiple clinical, economic, and social challenges that must be considered in the control and prevention of this life-threatening illness.
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Once a wolf : the science behind our dogs' astonishing genetic evolution
\"An enlightening work of science that enriches our understanding of the power of human-animal cooperation, and shows how an ancient partnership with the wolf helped Homo Sapiens conquer the World.\"--Dust jacket flap.
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Progress towards eliminating canine rabies: policies and perspectives from Latin America and the Caribbean
Human rabies transmitted by dogs is considered a neglected disease that can be eliminated in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) by 2015. The aim of this paper is to discuss canine rabies policies and projections for LAC regarding current strategies for achieving this target and to critically review the political, economic and geographical factors related to the successful elimination of this deadly disease in the context of the difficulties and challenges of the region. The strong political and technical commitment to control rabies in LAC in the 1980s, started with the regional programme coordinated by the Pan American Health Organization. National and subnational programmes involve a range of strategies including mass canine vaccination with more than 51 million doses of canine vaccine produced annually, pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis, improvements in disease diagnosis and intensive surveillance. Rabies incidence in LAC has dramatically declined over the last few decades, with laboratory confirmed dog rabies cases decreasing from approximately 25 000 in 1980 to less than 300 in 2010. Dog-transmitted human rabies cases also decreased from 350 to less than 10 during the same period. Several countries have been declared free of human cases of dog-transmitted rabies, and from the 35 countries in the Americas, there is now only notification of human rabies transmitted by dogs in seven countries (Bolivia, Peru, Honduras, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Guatemala and some states in north and northeast Brazil). Here, we emphasize the importance of the political commitment in the final progression towards disease elimination. The availability of strategies for rabies control, the experience of most countries in the region and the historical ties of solidarity between countries with the support of the scientific community are evidence to affirm that the elimination of dog-transmitted rabies can be achieved in the short term. The final efforts to confront the remaining obstacles, like achieving and sustaining high vaccination coverage in communities that are most impoverished or in remote locations, are faced by countries that struggle to allocate sufficient financial and human resources for rabies control. Continent-wide cooperation is therefore required in the final efforts to secure the free status of remaining countries in the Americas, which is key to the regional elimination of human rabies transmitted by dogs.
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The Isle of Dogs : before the big money moved in
This is a rare documentation of London's docklands at a time just before Canary Wharf's development. When Mike Seaborne began photographing the Isle of Dogs in the early '80s he was struck by how it retained its traditional industrial character, despite the effects of Thatcher's reign. His black-and-white photographs reveal an eerily desolate landscape now home to financial heavyweights and epic skyscrapers like Canary Wharf. They show an area of East London now almost beyond recognition, just before the money moved in.
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Expectations Versus Reality: Long-Term Research on the Dog–Owner Relationship
In the framework of the early prevention of problems in the owner–dog relationship, it is important to have a broad perspective on the development of this relationship over time, starting before people actually acquire a dog. People who currently (or previously) own(ed) a dog can rely on their experiences when considering a new dog, while this knowledge is unavailable to first time dog-owners. In this study, we explore how self-efficacy, social comparison, perceptions about the (dis)advantages of ownership and commitment to the dog (so-called social cognitive factors), problematic canine behaviors, perceived costs, and satisfaction with the dog change over time. We examine changes from the motivational phase of relationship development (before acquisition of the dog) into the experience phase (six and twelve months after acquisition of the dog). We explore if patterns are different in experienced (previous (n = 73) and current (n = 80)) versus unexperienced (first time (n = 30) dog owners. The respondents filled in three online questionnaires—once before and twice after acquisition of their dog. From T0 (before acquisition of the dog) to T1 (having the dog for six months) participants (especially those with no ownership experience) had to adjust their perceptions about dogs and dog ownership. Experiencing the relationship for an additional year (from T1 to T2) barely changed the social cognitive factors, satisfaction, and perceived costs. A small decline in problematic canine behaviors was present among the experienced dog owners between T1 and T2. To conclude, perceptions about dogs and dog ownership change over time, but after testing these perceptions with reality, they become stable after about six months.
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