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Chirotterofauna della grotta Sant'Angelo al Monte Raparo. Valutazione degli aspetti igenico-sanitari e stima della composizione e abbondanza delle colonie
No full textLa presente monografia offre interessanti indicazioni sulla colonia e lo stato sanitario dei Chirotteri presenti nella grotta Sant’Angelo al Monte Raparo, sita nel territorio del comune di San Chirico Raparo (PZ), presso l’omonima abbazia basiliana. L’importanza della grotta, situata in un contesto ambientale di gran pregio nell’ambito del Parco Nazionale dell’Appennino Lucano, rende indispensabili misure di protezione del sito, finalizzate alla conservazione della colonia di pipistrelli insieme alla valorizzazione turistico-religiosa dell’abbazia
The Shelter Dog in a One Health View. A Model Kennel in Southern Italy
No full textKennels are nowadays considered one of the main concerns of the human-animal relationship (1), since they're very often considered a sort of dump, rather than a shelter as such, for the animals, namely a place where dogs generally exile, thus representing a burden for society. Therefore, drawing up strategies for a new “kennel conception”, as an added value for human society, environment, and dogs (2) as well is mandatory. Accordingly, this shelter dog in southern Italy represents a multifunctional model structure, pointing towards the One Health perspective (3). Animal welfare and environment protection, together with human-dog relationship, represent the “backbone” of such a dog shelter conception (4). In this line, before entering the kennel, dogs should be initially subjected to a careful behavioral assessment and categorization by veterinary behaviorist, to guarantee the most suitable life conditions for the animals, increase the chances of adoption and, interestingly, allow them to be enrolled in educational programs, custom-designed to their aptitudes. In this respect, we enrolled 555 dogs of different ages, who followed a suited-4-month lasting training program between 2018 and 2020, with the aim of increasing the skills to be used in different human social contexts, such as supporting to the inmates, rescuing in the rubble, animal- assisted interventions and, even more, zooanthropology projects in schools. We documented a significant increase of the adoptions for both adult and old dogs, when compared to the age-matched untrained animals, who were housed in the same kennel from 2015 to 2017. Taken together, the present data highlight a crucial role for the training in improving physiological attitudes of the companion dogs, as well as their (maybe) wellbeing, thus harmonizing the human- animal bond. All these activities allow an improvement of the awareness degree, that is at the basis of the human-dog relationship, so reducing the risk aggression against humans and other dogs, along with the development of dysfunctional relationships. The strength of this “novel” shelter conception is represented by the environmental protection schedule, where the objectives, scheduled every three years, are the ongoing improvement and minimization of the environmental impact, which are technically and economically sustainable, actually. It is worth mentioning that the shelter makes use of chemical-physical purification areas and phytovaporation of wastewater, thus reducing environmental pollution of the area. Collectively, this innovative animal care-based strategy for dog kennels can prove successful only if we integrate the dog shelter concept into a wider scenario, including both human and environmental wellness
Influenza di due diverse metodiche di prelievo di sangue sui livelli ematici di glucosio nel bovino
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