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There is growing
interest in studying shelter dog welfare, specifically how to the stress of the shelter
environment. Human interaction, food enrichment toys, and synthetic dog appeasing
pheromones have all been found to reduce some stress-related behaviors and cortisol in
shelter-housed dogs. Several studies have found pressure wraps reduce stress-related
behaviors and some physiological sig... read morens of stress for homed dogs during acutely stressful
situations. This study investigated the efficacy of pressure wraps for use in treating
chronic stress in shelter dogs.
Keywords:
ThunderShirt™, shelter dogs, chronic stress,
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