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1 Evening Poster Session 7:00PM - 9:00PM Taste Baguette Drinks with posters Please note: Days 3 and 4: Posters will be up in the Kookaburra Room (Seminar Rooms 1.1/1.3) Abstract Listing Alphabetical W. Leigh Atherton The Influence of an Animal Assisted Therapy-Mindfulness Based Intervention on Anxiety in College Students. abs# 201 Lucy Bearman-Brown Attitudes of residents to feral wild boar (Sus scrofa) in the Forest of Dean, England. abs# 202 Lucy Bearman-Brown Animals on prescription the effect of animal handling sessions on student wellbeing. abs# 221 Simone A Blackman Considering Canines - The role of regulation in producing companions not commodities. abs# 203 Terri Brosnan The Development of a Unique Multidisciplinary Service Combining Occupational Therapy with Existing Equine Therapeutic Practices, showing improved outcomes in children between 2 and 18 years of age with a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder. abs# 204 Chris Calvert Dog rescue journeys in Romania as flows within a system: a schematic approach. abs# 205 Janne W Christensen Do you see what I see? Subjective assessment of nursing home visits with and without dogs by visitors and observers. abs# 248 Myung Sun Chun Pet demographic data analysis in a Social Survey in Korea. abs# 206 Kristy Donaldson Sit stay support dogs in court. abs# 207

2 Lisa Emmett Distract More Ruminate Less! Coping Strategies in Female Vets. abs# 244 Maija Esko Animal stories - learning with animals. abs# 208 Naroa Etxebarria The Painted Dog (African Wild Dog); Painted into a Corner. abs# 209 Angela Fournier Isolating the role of the animal: Experimental investigation of species in animal-assisted intervention. abs# 210 Erin Flynn Humane cities: social change through progressive animal welfare policies. abs# 216 Erin Flynn Factors that inform the outcomes for senior cats and dogs in animal shelters in the United States. abs# 217 Monica Anne Hamilton-Bruce Dying Before Your Pet: A Legal Literature Review. abs# 212 Tia Gitte Bondesen Hansen Animal Assisted Education - or just "hygge"-dogs in Danish primary schools. abs# 213 Benjamin L Hart Dealing with a canine companion s most disgusting behavior: dogs eating stools of other dogs or their own. abs# 214 Lynette A Hart Dogs placed by ADI or IGDF accredited facilities in North America and non-accredited U.S. facilities emphasizing history and roles. abs# 215 Roxanne Hawkins Psychological and behavioural disorders in ex-pet Capuchin monkeys: should primates be kept as pets? abs# 218 Mei-Mei Heng Yee Tan Interactions between Singapore s wild smooth-coated otters and people. abs# 219 Tiffani J Howell Factors predicting whether Australian cat owners keep their cat indoors: A Theory of Planned Behaviour study. abs# 220

3 Minna J Hsu Human-monkey conflicts in the Shoushan National Nature Park, Taiwan. abs# 222 La Toya Jamieson The behavioural and working impacts of changing a dog s handler. abs# 223 JoAnn Jarolmen The effects of animal-assisted activities on college students before and after a final exam. abs# 224 Lori L Jervis Animal affiliations, martin houses, and the making of backyard conservationists. abs# 225 Erin Jones Can attitudes towards Atlantic marine mammal species conservation be manipulated? abs# 226 Melanie G Jones Canine-assisted therapy in adolescent mental health treatment Current perspectives and future directions. abs# 227 Karen S Jove Social Skills of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Effects of Animal Assisted Therapy. abs# 228 Hazuki Kajiwara Ambivalent Responses of Pet Owners to the Animal Rescue Volunteers in Fukushima, Japan. abs# 229 Emily Kieson Equine-human interactions in therapy: A lack of research in horse-human bonding. abs# 230 Daisuke Kohari Does the flight response to human resemble between cow and calf? abs# 231 Melissa Laing Social work with vulnerable groups and their companion animals. abs# 232 Elizabeth Letson Examining the role of metaphor in animal-assisted learning: Human-horse interaction in eagala-model EAP. abs# 211 Deborah E Linder Parent and child perspectives on child-dog physical activity programs and the child-dog relationship. abs# 233

4 Shelby E McDonald Contextualizing children s maltreatment of companion animals in violent households: learning from children s explanations of their behavior. abs# 234 Alan G McElligott Public attitudes to animal sentience and welfare. abs# 243 Tomoha Mikayama The effects of animal-assisted interventions using dogs on first-year university students in Japan. abs# 235 Kana Mitsui Association between population of free-roaming cats and implementation status of subsidy project for neutering by local government in an urban city area in Tokyo. abs# 236 Mitsue Motomura Efficacy of trap-neuter-return (TNR) on population control, complaints and welfare of freeroaming cats. abs# 237 Casey O'Brien Native or nuisance? Landholder perceptions of southern hairy-nosed wombats (Lasiorhinus latifrons). abs# 238 Tania C Plueckhahn Investigating performance on the Kong test with domestic dogs. abs# 239 Nicholas J Rutter Training volunteer dog-owner teams to detect conservation targets. abs# 240 Kerry Sands Giving and receiving on the street an ethnography of greyhound street collections in south wales uk. abs# 241 James A Serpell Current standards and practices within the therapy dog industry: Results of a randomized survey of US therapy dog organizations. abs# 242 Emily Stone Vegan pets exploring the discourses and motivations behind plant-based companion animal diets. abs# 245 Christine Tardif-Williams Children s Mental State Talk about Companion Animals: Associations with Gender and Empathy. abs# 246

5 Deanna L Tepper Critical review of the potential influence of animal-assisted interventions on development of executive functioning. abs# 247 Asami Tsuchida How does a handler affect a participant in an activity with an animal. abs# 249 Vilja Vähä-Aho Canine-Assisted Work in Child Welfare in Finland. abs# 250 Carri Westgarth Imported rescue dogs: Reasons, methods and welfare. abs# 251 Katherine Whitehouse-Tedd A behavioural methodology evaluation of Human-Animal-Relationship assessments in zoos. abs# 252 Jessica K Woodhead Perceptions of Dog Breeding Practices, Breeding Dog Welfare and Companion Dog Acquisition in a Self-Selected Sample of Australian Adults. abs# 253 Mariko Yamamoto Influence of dog ownership on physical activity and social interaction of children attending special schools. abs# 254 Rachel Yerbury Human-dolphin interactions: Relationships, connections and the reinforcement of an ongoing nature relationship. abs# 255 Silke Zeller Animal abuse and cruelty in daily life. abs# 256

Evening Poster Session

Evening Poster Session Evening Poster Session 6:15PM - 8:00PM Taste Baguette Drinks with posters Please note: Days 3 and 4: Posters will be up in the Kookaburra Room (Seminar Rooms 1.1/1.3) Abstract Listing Alphabetical W. Leigh

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