CALL FOR PAPERS Animal Histories: A Decade with Animals Animal History Group International Conference Online, Friday 11th December 2026 AHG26 The Animal History Group is an international network fo…

The call for SCAS Funded-Research closed on 6 July 2026, after receiving a record number of applications for Pump Priming Awards and Student Projects. We were also happy to receive several applicat...

Meet some of the feline family members of the eCATT founders

This is an open letter supporting the University of Exeter’s Anthrozoology PhD and MA programmes, staff, students and all affected by the proposed cuts. Students, alumni and friends of Exeter’s Anthr...

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

The event takes place ONLINE 4-5 September 2026 (based on participant feedback and in order to accommodate students who work weekdays, we chose Friday and Saturday this year and will attempt to cater ...

Welcome to Anthrozoology as International Practice The 2026 AIP Student Conference in Anthrozoology 2026 will take place on September 4 and 5. Registration opens on August 5th. Call for Abstracts Now ...

Dr. Emily Kieson. Learning from the Wild: How Social Lives of Free-Living Horses in Mongolia and Scotland can Inform our Practices at Home

The event takes place ONLINE 4-5 September 2026 (based on participant feedback and in order to accommodate students who work weekdays, we chose Friday and Saturday this year and will attempt to cater ...

Companion Rabbits: Scientific Insights into Behaviour, Welfare, and the Owner–Rabbit Relations

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Companion Rabbits: Scientific Insights into Behaviour, Welfare, and the Owner–Rabbit Relations

By SCAS Communications Officer, Judith Bellingham Animals, Stories, and Emotional Connection Stories have always helped humans understand the world passing on values, exploring emotions, an...

Emeritus Professor James Serpell talks to Dr. Sandra McCune about his research career and the development of Human-Animal Studies

Wild Companions: Domestic Cats and their Wider Environment Dr Sarah Crowley, Senior Lecturer in Human and Animal Geography at the University of Exeter, will join the next Critical Cat Café! Tuesday…

Programme for the 2026 Anthrozoology Student Conference Click here to register for the FREE conference Day 1 (of 3) Friday 27 March 2026  10.15-10.30 Virtual arrival  10.30-11.0…

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Humans have a fundamental need to belong to groups. However, this need for belongingness is often thwarted when they experience bullying or ostracism from their conspecifics, which may compel them ...

Cat to owner bonds – let’s talk about attachment! Professor Daniel Mills will join the Critical Cat Café to talk about the bonds cats form with their humans. Tuesday 27 January 2026(13:30-15:0…

Presenters: Dr Kris Hill & Dr Clare Thomas-Pino

Cat to owner bonds – let’s talk about attachment! Professor Daniel Mills will join the Critical Cat Café to talk about the bonds cats form with their humans. Tuesday 27 January 2026(13:30-15:0…

Cat Academic Think Tank

This 5-year postdoctoral position forms part of the ERC Consolidator project FRONTCAT (Frontier Cats: Reimagining Multispecies Governance and Care Ethics beyond Post-politics) and leads Subproject 1: ...

James Serpell is Emeritus Professor of Animal Welfare at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. He received his BSc degree in Zoology from University College London, and his P...

Are you on the eCATT mailing list (if you joined one of our Critical Cat Cafes you will be)? If so please check your email (and junk folder). If you want to be added, please share your email (or se…

The morning heat was lifting the mist over Sauraha when I heard the distant, unmistakable call of captive elephants, an echo of enforced stillness. Their confinement stood in stark contrast to the qui...

Situated at the intersection of tourism, migration, and human-animal studies, this paper is based on a transspecies ethnographic study of a colony of cats (Felis catus) living on the Costa del Sol,...