Canine euthanasia’s trend analysis during thirty years (1990–2020) in italy: a veterinary hospital as case study

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• What: The authors aim to investigate clinical data collected from an anonymized small animals` veterinary hospital to evaluate whether or not there was an increase in the prevalence of euthanasia of dogs over the last three decades. Based on the hypothesis that the enforcement of Law 189/2004 could have influenced the decisionmaking process surrounding euthanasia, this study has evaluated the euthanasia trend within a population of dogs examined in a small animals` veterinary hospital over a whole period of thirty years by comparing two terms, namely, before and after the enforcement of the Italian Law 189 . . .
  

   

  

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