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Nov 29, 2021 Global Dog Campaign Case Studies: Kabul, Afghanistan; Chennai, India; Heredia, Costa Rica

Posted at 09:56h In AHPPA (Asociación Humanitaria para la Protección Animal), Animals in Our World, Articles, BCI (Blue Cross of India), Companion Animals - Dogs, Mayhew Afghanistan, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Kabul, AfghanistanAfghanistan recently experienced a change in government, leading to chaotic scenes at Kabul airport as countries evacuated their personnel and individual Afghan citizens sought to leave the country. Dogs were also caught up in this chaos as some animal advocates sought, mostly unsuccessfully, to...

Nov 29, 2021 Dog Homelessness and Development of WBI’s Global Dog Campaign

Posted at 09:52h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Companion Animals - Dogs, Letter from the President, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

On November 30th, we are holding the first webinar on dog homelessness and WBI's Global Dog Campaign (GDC), and it seems an appropriate time to review the background leading up to this moment. In 1983, I started working on dog/cat welfare and demographics in the...

Global Dog Campaign | Photo credit: Blue Cross of India

Nov 15, 2021 WellBeing International’s Global Dog Campaign to End Dog Homelessness

Posted at 14:39h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Companion Animals - Dogs, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan

As the world begins to emerge from the pandemic, WellBeing International wants to refocus its efforts on the global concerns of the world's homeless dog population. We invite interested readers to join us on Tuesday (November 30) at noon (EST) for a free webinar reviewing...

Nov 15, 2021 “A Dog’s World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without Humans” by Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff

Posted at 14:02h In Animals in Our World, Book Review, Companion Animals - Dogs, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan

This book is an imaginative analysis of what might happen to the 800 million to one billion dogs in the world if humans suddenly disappeared. Still, there are probably few better scholars to describe and flesh out this imaginary dog’s world. Both authors -- Jessica...

Stray dogs of Pacifica Township in Chennai, India

May 18, 2021 The Stray Dogs of Pacifica Township, Chennai, India

Posted at 10:16h In Animals in Our World, Articles, BCI (Blue Cross of India), Companion Animals - Dogs, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan

Most of the dogs in India are homeless stray dogs who survive mainly on handouts from people. While the keeping of pet dogs is increasing (almost doubled in the past decade), only around 10% of households have pet dogs (compared to 35% in the US...

Man with dogs & cat | Photo credit: Budimir Jevtik

Feb 12, 2021 The Origin of the People and Dogs’ 20,000-Year Love Affair

Posted at 10:50h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Companion Animals - Dogs, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan

It seems fitting during Valentine’s week to address the mystery of how the dog became the dog and ended up as a devoted and beloved companion for billions of people over the span of 20,000 years or so. Several academic papers and one blog by...

Underdogs: Pets, People and Poverty (2020) by Arnold Arluke and Andrew Rowan, published by University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, 2020.

Jan 13, 2021 “Underdogs: Pets, People and Poverty” by Arnold Arluke, PhD and Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Posted at 10:29h In Animals in Our World, Book Review, Companion Animals - Dogs, Tales of WellBeing - By Dr. Kevin N. Morris

Underdogs: Pets, People and Poverty (2020) by Arnold Arluke and Andrew Rowan, published by University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, 2020.This book covers the growing movement toward creating affordable veterinary care programs in high-poverty and low-access communities. Its emphasis on the human aspects of such...

Dec 07, 2020 Ending Dog Homelessness Across the World

Posted at 09:05h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Companion Animals - Dogs, Letter from the President, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

There are many organizations, municipalities and individuals around the world dedicating time, resources and much attention and love to the well-being of dogs and ending dog homelessness. Often, these projects do not have sufficient resources to reach the number of dogs to have measurable impact...

Puppies | Photo credit: Blue Cross of India

Nov 02, 2020 Counting Dogs

Posted at 14:15h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Companion Animals - Dogs, HIS (Help in Suffering), WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan

Data on dog numbers and dog well-being will be an important part of evaluating impact of different approaches to dog and human well-being in particular communities. The world currently has somewhere between 800 million and one billion domestic dogs. As such, they are the most...

Jul 20, 2020 “Survival of the Friendliest” by Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods

Posted at 06:15h In Animals in Our World, Book Review, Companion Animals - Dogs - By Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods

Reviewed by Andrew Rowan - Brian Hare, a professor in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University and his wife, Vanessa Woods, an award-winning journalist and a research scientist at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience also at Duke University, have just produced a new...

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