About this episode

Tom discusses quality of life in shelter dogs with Dr. Karen Griffin, focusing on her research project.

In this episode Tom is joined by Dr. Karen Griffin to discuss quality of life in shelter dogs and how her current research project is exploring this topic. Focusing on adapting Maslow's Hierarchy the research group aims to better understand QoL in dogs pre and post adoption

People in this episode

Host: Tom

Guest: Dr. Karen Griffin

Topics covered

• quality of life
• shelter dogs
• research
• adoption
• Maslow's Hierarchy

Keywords

• quality of life
• shelter dogs
• research
• adoption
• Maslow's Hierarchy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Maslow's Hierarchy

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