Current advances in assessment of dog's emotions, facial expressions, and their use for clinical recognition of pain

D Mota-Rojas, M Marcet-Rius, A Ogi… - Animals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary In several species, facial expressions have been associated with positive
and negative emotions to communicate their mental state. In dogs, the interpretation of these …

Analgesia: what makes cats different/challenging and what is critical for cats?

PV Steagall - Veterinary Clinics: Small Animal Practice, 2020 - vetsmall.theclinics.com
Pain affects feline health and welfare. As the fourth vital sign, it must always be assessed in
every physical examination. Knowledge of feline pain management has grown greatly. The …

Family member, best friend, child or 'just'a pet, owners' relationship perceptions and consequences for their cats

EMC Bouma, ML Reijgwart, A Dijkstra - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Describing the relationship with one's cat in human terms might reflect an underlying
anthropomorphic view of the relationship which might be associated with an owner's …

Explainable automated pain recognition in cats

M Feighelstein, L Henze, S Meller, I Shimshoni… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Manual tools for pain assessment from facial expressions have been suggested and
validated for several animal species. However, facial expression analysis performed by …

Owners' beliefs regarding the emotional capabilities of their dogs and cats

O Pickersgill, DS Mills, K Guo - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Understanding how pet dogs and cats are feeling is very difficult and
getting it wrong could result in welfare issues for the animals and the risk of injury for …

Identification of separation-related problems in domestic cats: A questionnaire survey

D de Souza Machado, PMB Oliveira, JC Machado… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Identifying and preventing the occurrence of separation-related problems (SRP) in
companion animals are relevant to animal welfare and the quality of human-pet interactions …

Understanding feline feelings: An investigation of cat owners' perceptions of problematic cat behaviors

L Powell, B Watson, J Serpell - Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Undesirable feline behaviors can detrimentally effects on the human-cat relationship, owner
satisfaction, and animal welfare. This study explored cat owners' perceptions of cat behavior …

The zoomorphic MiRo robot's affective expression design and perceived appearance

M Ghafurian, G Lakatos, K Dautenhahn - International Journal of Social …, 2022 - Springer
This article proposes design guidelines for 11 affective expressions for the Miro robot, and
evaluates the expressions through an online video study with 116 participants. All …

Feline faces: Unraveling the social function of domestic cat facial signals

L Scott, BN Florkiewicz - Behavioural Processes, 2023 - Elsevier
Lately, there has been a growing interest in studying domestic cat facial signals, but most of
this research has centered on signals produced during human-cat interactions or pain. The …

Perception of stress in cats by German cat owners and influencing factors regarding veterinary care

J Karn-Buehler, F Kuhne - Journal of Feline Medicine and …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives Visiting the veterinarian is generally perceived as a stressful situation for cats.
Previous studies have shown that the perception of stress may influence cats' healthcare. In …