Commentary: Do people really care less about their cats than about their dogs? A comparative study in three European countries

Catarina Jota Baptista; Fernanda Seixas; José M Gonzalo-Orden; Paula A Oliveira

doi:10.3389/fvets.2024.1332301

Commentary: Do people really care less about their cats than about their dogs? A comparative study in three European countries

Front Vet Sci. 2024 Feb 7:11:1332301. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2024.1332301. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Catarina Jota Baptista^{1

2

3

4}, Fernanda Seixas^{1

5}, José M Gonzalo-Orden³, Paula A Oliveira^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Departamento de Ciências Veterinárias, Escola de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias (ECAV), Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal.
² Centro de Investigação das Tecnologias Agroambientais e Biológicas (CITAB-Inov4Agro), Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal.
³ Instituto de Biomedicina (IBIOMED), Universidad de León, León, Spain.
⁴ Egas Moniz Center for Interdisciplinary Research (CiiEM), Egas Moniz School of Health &Science, Almada, Portugal.
⁵ Associated Laboratory for Animal and Veterinary Sciences (AL4AnimalS), Centro de Ciência Animal e Veterinária (CECAV), Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal.

No abstract available

Keywords: caregiver; cat; dog; letter (to the Editor); pet care.

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Grants and funding

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was supported by National Funds by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) e and Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia (MCT). The authors of the research unit CITAB (CJB and PAO) received funding from FCT—reference of the project: UIDB/04033/2020 (10.54499/UIDB/04033/2020). The authors of the research unit CECAV-Al4Animals (FS) also received funding from FCT—references of the projects: UIDB/CVT/00772/2020 and LA/P/0059/2020. FCT supported CJB due to the PhD scholarship 2021.04520.BD. CJB also thanks FCT/MCTES for the financial support to CiiEM (10.54499/UIDB/04585/2020).