All Creatures Great and Small: A Review and Typology of Employee-Animal Interactions

SX Quan, C Lam, K Schabram… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Employees interact with animals in a myriad of ways in the context of work. Herein, we seek
to catalog this multiplex phenomenon in order to gain theoretical insights. Our article unfolds …

Curation subscription box services: Implications for the pet industry

M Jeong, K Yang, HJM Kim, J Min - Journal of Retailing and Consumer …, 2024 - Elsevier
With the recent surge of the subscription eCommerce industry, this study aims to identify the
key attributes and features that customers favor in curation subscription box services, and to …

Childfree and “bingoed”: A relational dialectics theory analysis of meaning creation in online narratives about voluntary childlessness

EA Hintz, CL Brown - Communication Monographs, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
We utilize RDT 2.0 to analyze 424 narrative accounts by voluntarily childless (“childfree”)
Reddit users of bingo-response interactions to explore how discourse constrains and …

Just like family: How companion animals joined the household

A Laurent-Simpson - Just Like Family, 2021 - degruyter.com
From homemade meals for our dogs to high-end feline veterinary care, pets are a growing
multi-billion-dollar industry in the United States. In Just Like Family, Andrea Laurent …

Disenfranchised guilt—Pet owners' burden

LR Kogan, C Bussolari, J Currin-McCulloch… - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Guilt is the unpleasant emotion associated with one's behaviors, thoughts,
or intentions, and it is based on the possibility that one may be in the wrong or others may …

Pet parenting in the United States: Investigating an evolutionary puzzle

S Volsche - Evolutionary Psychology, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Fertility rates continue to decline globally amidst the second demographic transition, marked
by urbanization, increased educational attainment, and most importantly, a new flexibility in …

Pet parenting: A systematic review of its characteristics and effects on companion dogs

M Barina-Silvestri, M Díaz-Videla… - Journal of Veterinary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Pet parenting is part of the pet-guardian relationship and involves caring for companion
animals by applying strategies and actions typically seen in the parent-child caregiving …

A measurement equivalence study of the family bondedness scale: measurement equivalence between cat and dog owners

WR Nugent, L Daugherty - Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
About 38.4% of US households include a dog, and 25.4% a cat, as pets, and a recent poll
suggested over 90% of pet owners feel their companion animal is a family member …

COVID-19: companion animals help people cope during government-imposed social isolation

E Johnson, S Volsche - society & animals, 2021 - brill.com
This research explores the impact of government-imposed social isolation orders on homes
with companion animals. Data were collected April through May 2020, the onset of the …

Amelioration of pet overpopulation and abandonment using control of breeding and sale, and compulsory owner liability insurance

E Bernete Perdomo, JE Araña Padilla, S Dewitte - Animals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Overpopulation and abandonment of pets are long-standing and
burgeoning concerns that involve uncontrolled breeding and selling, illegal trafficking …