Companion Animals: Health, Behavior, and Welfare (CAHBW) is an international, peer-reviewed, gold open-access journal dedicated to promoting research that enhances the quality of life of small companion animals.
The journal focuses on small companion species, including dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, and other small mammals (rodents), with a particular focus on addressing the limited publication space for small mammal research.
CAHBW focuses on three main areas:
- Health: disease, preventative healthcare, nutrition, physiology, and clinical research.
- Behavior: normal and abnormal behavior, cognition, human–animal interactions, animal–computer interactions.
- Welfare: welfare assessment, husbandry, ethics, and quality of life.
The journal welcomes interdisciplinary research, reviews, case studies, and short communications that contribute to evidence-based improvements in companion animals’ health, behavior, and welfare.
EiC's Message to Readers
I am excited to be involved in the new Companion Animals: Health, Behavior, & Welfare (CAHBW) journal focussing on small companion species, including dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, and other small mammals. This journal will welcome work on a range of topics within the fields of health, behavior, and welfare, and can contribute to our understanding of these areas in both our common companion pets, like cats and dogs, but also more understudied species like rodents and rabbits. I look forward to the journal publishing work of significant interest to our readers and advancing the field of companion animal health, behavior, and welfare.
Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Alison Wills
Chair of Hartpury's Ethics Committee, Hartpury University, Hartpury, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.
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