In the Zürich Tages Anzeiger this morning there was an article today about

Dr.sc. Dennis C. Turner, BS, ScD, Director
Institute for applied Ethology and Animal Psychology

The Site of the Animal Psychology Organisation is unfortunately only in German but the lists of qualified Animal Psychologists might be useful to someone at some point.

His Home Page in English gives far less information useful for us here, but confirms the 'bona fide' nature of the set-up.

The NZZ on Sunday also had an article about Dr. Turner... I think he's been researching attitudes towards pets in French vs. German speaking Switzerland, and there was something comparing Muslim vs. Christian pet owners. I have to translate the article tho since my German is pretty crappy.