Is there a relationship between attitudes of shelter staff to cats and the cats’ approach behaviour?

One aspect of welfare that is measured in protocols used for the assessment of farm animal welfare is the human-animal relationship. The aim of the present study was to develop a ‘human approach test’ to measure the human-animal relationship in shelter cats and to investigate aspects of feasibility, reliability and validity of this test in a surveillance setting. Cat behaviour towards humans was assessed using a standardized approach in their...