Today therapy dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) service people more than ever and different categories of work places use therapy dogs to help their caretakers. Many studies have been made on the positive effects in patients when they are given contact with a dog, but very little have been done on how the dog experience its situation and what kind of behaviour a therapy dog shows during its working days. This work was made to investigate the behaviours that educated therapy dogs in Sweden showed when they were in contact with a caretaker and to find out if the dogs showed any signs of stress or some other kind of discomfort. To do this a survey was sent out to 17 educated therapy dog handlers in Sweden that together had 18 educated therapy dogs. The survey contained 39 questions about the daily work of the therapy dogs when they were together with caretakers and some questions about the therapy dogs spare time. A question about what kind of dog breed the therapy dog handlers had were also in the survey to investigate if some breeds were more usual as therapy dogs.

The purpose of this work was that with the help of a literature review have a single document with information on how the various species: brown bear (Ursus arctos), lynx (Lynx lynx) and the wolf (Canis lupus) living in the wild. The aim was also to show which stereotypic behaviours these different species have in zoos and the enrichments that is already being used and to make suggestions and recommendations on enrichment based on animal behaviour ecology. In zoos, some species thrive well while others have propositions to propagating problems, poor health and stereotypic behaviors. The brown bear, lynx and wolf, live both in the wild and in zoos in Sweden. As these animals have different ways of living in the wild, it is important to accommodate to each species, the way they are kept in zoos in accordance with their behavioural ecology.Brown bears are omnivorous and solitary living species with large energy needs so that they spend most of their day to actively feeding but also rest.

Med anledning av vargens (Canis lupus) återetablering i Sverige presenteras och jämförs de boskapsvaktande djuren hund (Canis lupus familiaris), lama (Lama glama) och åsna (Equus asinus). Boskapsvaktande djur används sedan länge i många rovdjurstäta länder, men i Sverige används idag främst rovdjurssäkra stängsel för att hindra varg från att riva får (Ovis aries). Stängsel är dock kostsamma och begränsar dessutom betesytan. Under 2006 hade 32 % av fårflockarna i USA hundar, 14 % lamor och 9 % åsnor som vaktdjur. En boskapsvaktande hund måste växa upp i en fårflock för att socialiseras med fåren.

Most studies regarding wolf (Canis lupus) predation on moose (Alces alces) have focused on the total annual consumption of moose within a wolf territory but few have tried to describe the spatial impact of wolf predation on a local scale. In this study I have analyzed wolf movement data, wolf predation, moose hunting statistics and moose hunter observations to investigate how wolf predation affects the human harvest of moose in Scandinavia. Since wolves prey on mostly juvenile moose during summer, analysis of their summer movement patterns is crucial to understand its impact on the human harvest later during autumn. In this study both reproducing (n = 45) and non-reproducing wolves (n = 12) reduced their movement range during summer to 66% and 67% of their annual movement range, respectively. Reproducing wolves increased their movement range from early to late summer while non reproducing wolves did not.

Lupus is the result of an investigative project in illustration. In my degree-work I have investigated the different guises of the wolf, which I have thenillustrated visually combined with some portions of text. The result, presentedin the form of a book of 36 pages, is narrated in a poetic and free style with meas a personal author. The images of the book tell the story of both the wolf of fleshand blood, as well as the wolf as a symbol. My work is produced with the hope thatby talking about the wolf in a way other than the standard, new ways of regarding apresently endangered but valuable animal, can arise..

Wildlife contributes with many benefits to humans but also brings economic costs. From being eradicated in Scandinavia the grey wolf (Canis lupus) is returning to South-Western Sweden and people are not used to its presence. In Scandinavia carnivores have to co-occur with humans in a landscape used for many different interests. Consequences of wolf establishments are e.g. competition for moose, depredation on sheep and attacks on hunting dogs.

Genetic parameters for four leg conformation traits in dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) are in this literature review summarized to investigate whether selective breeding could be useful to improve purebred dogs´ health and welfare. The four traits are leg length, leg weakness, hip joint and elbow joint conformation. When summarized, the genetic parameters are compared with genetic parameters affecting in pigs (Sus scrofa). Of the four traits, hip and elbow conformations were mostly studied in dogs. However, these traits were not widely studied in pigs.

Nematoden Toxocara canis är ett av de vanligaste endoparasitproblemen hos unga valpar, både i Sverige och i övriga europeiska länder. Vid kraftiga infektioner kan T. canis orsaka utmärgling hos valpar och i sällsynta fall obstipation med fatal utgång. Nematoden kan även orsaka skada hos människan då T. canis larver penetrerar olika organ.

I denna litteraturstudie sammanfattas ett flertal undersökningar av effekten av olika anthelmintika till hund och katt för behandling mot spolmaskarterna Toxocara canis, Toxocara (cati) mystax och, till viss del, Toxascaris leonina. Samtliga studier har publicerats mellan åren 1998 och 2011.T. canis drabbar hundar, T. (cati) mystax angriper katter och T. leonina har både hund och katt som huvudvärd.

Animals living in captivity are often subjected to various kinds of stress. Individuals within species can respond differently to the same stressor depending on differences in coping style and physiology. Active and passive coping is a common way to describe different coping styles in animals and it is likely that these strategies have a high heritability. Individuals with an active coping style are characterized by an urge of control and a higher level of aggression than individuals with passive coping style, who in general are more flexible and respond to stress by immobilisation to a greater extent. The aim of this bachelor?s thesis is to investigate the presence of different coping styles and personality types in dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) and horses (Equus ferus caballus) and to find fields of application for this information.

It is not easy to understand people?s fears since they are not always a logical reflection of the danger in certain situations. This study is an attempt to give a scientific view of the potential danger that certain animals in Sweden pose and compare this to Swedes? fear of these animals. A report shows that Swedes? have a certain amount of fear for being attacked by a wild animal in the forest and this fear has increased for certain animals over the last years.

The aim of this study was to describe how body language of humans affects the domestic dog (Canis familiaris) and how it can be implanted in the stressed situation that occur at an animal hospital. The subject is brought to notice because the author has experienced that dogs can get more stressed when a stressed and nervous owner is attending. Humans affect each other through posture, facial expression, voice and movement, and are often driven by their emotions, which can differentiate the verbal communication from the non-verbal communication. This occurs both consciously and unconsciously. Every human uses body language but not everyone knows how it is used or how to understand it.

Rovdjursfrågan i Sverige är en stor, het debatt och vi har valt att koncentrera oss på vargen. Det finns många olika åsikter om vargens vara eller icke vara i den svenska naturen och i detta arbete tar vi bl.a. upp några orsaker till de olika åsikterna. Vargen är ett väldigt skyggt djur som under naturliga förhållanden inte gärna närmar sig människor. Trots detta har den fått ett oförtjänt dåligt rykte.

Utvecklingen av autoimmuna sjukdomar beror på både miljömässiga och genetiska riskfaktorer och dessa sjukdomar uppstår när ett adaptivt immunsvar bildas mot kroppsegna antigener. Systemisk lupus erythematosus (SLE) är en autoimmun sjukdom, den är en komplex kronisk inflammatorisk sjukdom med spontan uppkomst hos människa. Både immunmedierad reumatisk sjukdom (IMRD) och steroidresponsiv meningit-arterit (SRMA) är exempel på SLE-relaterade sjukdomar hos hund. Syftet med studien var att jämföra de två SLE-relaterade sjukdomarna IMRD och SRMA, samt undersöka deras patogenes och etiologi. Hundar med IMRD har antinukleära antikroppar vilket inte ses hos hundar med SRMA.

Systemisk lupus erythematosus, (SLE) ingår i gruppen reumatiska sjukdomar och är en av ca 80 diagnoser inom området reumatologi. SLE är en kronisk , inflammatorisk, autoimmun sjukdom som orsakar inflammation i olika delar av kroppens organ. SLE förekommer i båda könen och alla åldrar,men sjukdomen är sju gånger vanligare bland kvinnor än hos män. Det oförutsägbara förloppet av denna kroniska sjukdom, dess symtom och eventuellt bieffekter av behandling kan betydande påverka patientens fysiska och psykiska välbefinnande.Tidigare studier har visade att patienter med diagnosen SLE hade ett behov av och efterfrågade kunskap om egenvård för att kunna nå en bättre livskvalitet. Förhoppningen var att om egenvård kommer i fokus i patientutbildningar för denna patientgrupp kan deras livskvalitet höjas.Föreliggande studie kartlägger vilken kunskap kvinnliga patienter i Uppsala län med SLE uppfattar att de hade om egenvård, samt hur mycket kunskap de uppfattade att de önskade inom egenvårdsområden.