Faculty of Health and Medical Science

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Comparing veterinarians’ attitudes to and the potential influence of pet health insurance in Austria, Denmark and the UK

Using an online questionnaire distributed via e-mail, which included a section on health insurance,…

Regulating Companion Dog Welfare: A Comparative Study of Legal Frameworks in Western Countries

This study compares legislation with an impact on the welfare of companion dogs in eleven Western…

Danish Dairy Farmers' Acceptance of and Willingness to Use Semen from Bulls Produced by Means of in Vitro Embryo Production and Genomic Selection

This cross-sectional study surveyed Danish dairy farmers' general acceptance of a set of a new…

Managing conflicting ethical concerns in modern small animal practice — A comparative study of veterinarian’s decision ethics in Austria, Denmark and the UK

This survey based study provides a first empirical insight into how veterinarians manage challengin…

Comparing Behavioural Problems in Imported Street Dogs and Domestically Reared Danish Dogs

The objective of this study was based on two survey, aimed at owners and veterinarians, to…

For the Sake of Production—And the Animal, and Me. How Students at Danish Agricultural Colleges Perceive AnimalWelfare

The purpose of this study was to examine how perceptions of animal welfare develop among prospectiv…

Moral Convictions and Meat Consumption — A Comparative Study of the Animal Ethics Orientations of Consumers of Pork in Denmark, Germany, and Sweden

The relationship between animal ethics orientations and consumer demand for welfare-enhanced por…

Exploratory behaviour towards novel objects is associated with enhanced learning in young horses

This study presents the first evidence of a link between object-directed curiosity and learning…

Breeding schemes for intervertebral disc disease in Dachshunds: Is disc calcification score preferable to genotyping of the FGF4 retrogene insertion on CFA12?

Approximately every fifth Dachshund is affected by disc herniation - a painful, hereditary conditio…

Development and consistency of fearfulness in horses from foal to adult

Understanding the development and consistency of behavioural responses across life stages is of bot…