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Welcome to the links page. On this page are general links as well as links you’ll find on the reading library page.
There is a lot of information on the internet about pets, animal behavior, pet loss and other pet related topics. On this page are the best one’s I’ve found.
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- Authors and Experts
Members of the media, organizations needing guest speakers, or those needing an expert witness are just a few examples of those that would benefit.
- Interview Guest Directory
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- Kindle Formatting: The Complete Guide
Formatting eBooks for the Amazon Kindle is a challenge for anyone, even a veteran eBook developer like me. From the time the Kindle was released I have tested the formatting on it in ways that no other developer has. In addition to formatting an array of books from a variety of genres, I have developed tests to find out exactly what the Kindle can do, and how to make books look their best on the device.
- Learn About Ebooks
The eBook formats explained below are the most common ones you will run into when developing standard eBooks. While there are other proprietary formats, these are the formats used on the majority of eBook devices and sold by the major retailers. For a quick overview of the formats compared to each other, here is an easy comparison table.
- The Best Writing Book I’ve Ever Read
Have you ever read a book that makes you realize how little you actually know about a subject? I thought I knew something about the writing craft. After all, I’ve been studying it since I was seventeen and writing about it on this blog for the last two years.
- The Soul of Your Pet: Evidence for the Survival of Animals After Death
- The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul
- The Spiritual Doorway in the Brain
- Bill Moyers Faith And Reason
"There are two ways to slide easily through life," the noted linguist and mathematician Alfred Korzybski once said. "To believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking."
- Can unbelievers have faith?
The Bible says that faith comes by hearing the Word of God. It also says that faith is a gift of the Holy Spirit. Unbelievers do not have the gift of the Holy Spirit. So how can they have faith?
- William Lane Craig - Reasonable Faith
Reasonable Faith aims to provide in the public arena an intelligent, articulate, and uncompromising yet gracious Christian perspective on the most important issues concerning the truth of the Christian faith today.
- Analyzing the Relationship Between Dog Ownership and Stress Levels
Transcript of Analyzing the Relationship Between Dog Ownership and Stress Levels
- Assessing the human-animal bond
Assessing the Human-Animal Bond: A Compendium of Actual Measures gathers in one place those measures presently used to study the human-companion animal bond.
- Attachment to Pets and Interpersonal Relationships
The goal of the present research is to investigate pet attachment and measure the connection between owner-pet attachment and interpersonal attachment characteristics of dog owners and cat owners, social support and loneliness. From a sample of 268 dog and 97 cat owners, significant differences on pet attachment appeared between pet owners’ gender, owners living location, kinds of pets and the length of ownership. The pedigree of pets influenced owner-pet attachment levels.
- Companion Animal Psychology
One of the key things that would help to improve the success rates of trainee working dogs would be wider recognition of the sum of all the parts that make a successful working dog. It’s not just the training methods used, it’s not just the genetics, it’s also the socialization and puppy raising process - Companion animals and human health
The welfare of therapy, assistance and even companion animals is important but tends to be overlooked because welfare issues in other animal sectors are so pressing. However, animals are not always guaranteed a good quality of life just because they play meaningful roles in the lives of people. - Do Animals Know Who they Are?
What do these animals make of themselves when they look in a mirror, see their reflection in water, hear their own or another's song or howl, or smell themselves and others? Is it possible that self-awareness — "Wow that's me!" — is a uniquely human trait? - See more at: http://www.livescience.com/39803-do-animals-know-who-they-are.html#sthash.yJSdICwb.dpuf
- How Social Trends Affect Pet Ownership
Research on Human - Animal Interactions Has Found Evidence that:1. Presence of pets is associated with de-arousal — e.g. short - term reductions in heart - rate/blood pressure; subjective feelings of calmness, relaxation.2. Pet ownership is associated with increased social interaction with others (social catalyst).3. Pet ownership is associated with fewer risk factors for cardiovascular disease.4. Pet ownership is associated with improved survivorship with cardiovascular disease.5. Pet ownership linked to less deterioration in health in response to life events and chronic stress.6. Pet ownership associated with sustained reductions in people’s physiological reactions to experimental stressors - Human-Canine Relationships: Dog Behavior and Owner Perceptions
Owning a dog has many physiological and psychological advantages; however, dog behavior can manifest itself in a variety of negative ways, including aggression. Research suggested that genetics and environment might play a role in aggression. It was demonstrated that owners can affect their dogs’ behaviors. - Metamorphic Relationships With Pets
Using depth interviews and participant observation, the predominant metaphors that emerge in pet owners' relationships with theiranimals are pets as pleasures, problems, parts of self, members of the family, and toys.
- Relationship of Pet Attachment and Self-Esteem among Adolescents in Hong Kong
This study was designed to examine the relationship between pet attachment and self-esteem among adolescents in Hong Kong. In this study, two hypotheses were formulated. Hypothesis one was adolescent pet owners who score higher on pet attachment scale showed significantly higher score on the self esteem scale. - Scientific American Self Awareness Article
Consciousness, most scientists would argue, is not a shared property of all matter in the universe. Rather consciousness is restricted to a subset of animals with relatively complex brains. The more scientists study animal behavior and brain anatomy, however, the more universal consciousness seems to be. A brain as complex as a human's is definitely not necessary for consciousness.
- Self-consciousness Definition
Self-consciousness is an acute sense of self-awareness. It is a preoccupation with oneself, as opposed to the philosophical state of self-awareness, which is the awareness that one exists as an individual being; although some writers use both terms interchangeably or synonymously.
- Service Animal vs. Companion Animal
The ADA defines a service animal as any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability.”
Companion animals not individually trained to perform any specific kind of task. Instead, the principal service that companion animals provide is simply that—companionship.
- Service vs emotional support animal (PDF)
A handy PDF chart of the characteristics of a service and companion pet.
- The Best Writing Book I’ve Ever Read
Have you ever read a book that makes you realize how little you actually know about a subject? I thought I knew something about the writing craft. After all, I’ve been studying it since I was seventeen and writing about it on this blog for the last two years.
- The relationship between empathy and pet ownership in late childhood
Many theorists have found companion animals to play an important role in the socio-emotional development of a child. The current study aims to extend this research byexploring links between empathy and pet ownership, pet attitudes and pet attachmentin late childhood.
- Animal Health Foundation
In 1966, after years of study and inspired by Don Mahan, Executive Director of the Southern California Veterinary Medical Association (SCVMA), the Council of the SCVMA approved the founding of the Animal Health Foundation of Southern California.
- Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement
We are all professionally trained volunteers in pet bereavement counseling, and are here for you.
- Mourning the Life of a Best Friend
Pet Loss Help. Org is devoted to supporting the grieving process of those who have lost companion animals.
- Pet Loss Grief Support
Here you will find personal support, thoughtful advice, The Monday Pet Loss Candle Ceremony, Tribute Pages, healing poetry, the Rainbow Bridge Poem & much more.
- Pet Loss Support
- Pet Loss Support Website
- Schoedinger Pet Services
Since 1995 Schoedinger Pet Services has provided a place to help people mourn, memorialize, and honor the life they shared with their beloved pet.
- Best Friends - Save Them All
For over 30 years, Best Friends Animal Society has been running the nation’s largest no-kill sanctuary for companion animals and building effective programs all across the country that reduce the number of animals entering shelters.
- Good News Network
Since 1997, people have turned to the Good News Network® as an antidote to the barrage of negativity experienced in the mainstream media.
- Vetstreet News
At Vetstreet Inc., we've spent more than 30 years helping veterinarians care for animals and communicate with pet owners.