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BEAVER-GOLAB

The veterinarian's guide to animal welfare

1° ed., 361 pagg., 10 ill., Academic Press, giugno 2023

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The Veterinarian’s Guide to Animal Welfare provides an overview of various aspects of animal welfare that are particularly relative to the veterinary profession. The book explores various ways of viewing and assessing welfare, as well as the numerous factors that influence perceptions. Emphasis is placed on contemporary issues across, and within, major species groups. The book's authors are internationally known experts in the veterinary aspects of animal welfare and have written numerous articles on animal welfare, behavior, euthanasia and the human-animal bond.

This book is written for the veterinary profession and was designed to be used as a textbook for animal welfare courses at colleges and schools of veterinary medicine. It complements the Model Curriculum for the Study of Animal Welfare (AVMA 2015) and its attendant course syllabus. This is an important resource for graduate veterinarians seeking to improve their understanding of the numerous aspects of animal welfare.

Key features

Specifically written for veterinarians and veterinary students
Addresses historical, cultural, and contemporary aspects of animal welfare
Complements the Model Curriculum for the Study of Animal Welfare developed by the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)

Section 1 – Concepts of animal welfare

Chapter 1 Introductory concepts

Introduction to animal welfare

Characterization of animal welfare
- Definitions
Factors that influence animal welfare
- Sentience
- Animal needs
- Animal wants

Frameworks for defining animal welfare

Five Freedoms
3Rs
Five Domains
Three Orientations
Ethical matrix
Quality of life
General Principles
Comparative

Scientific and sociological influences

Science
Sociological influences
- Ethics
  - Indirect theories
  - Direct but unequal theories
  - Moral equality theories
- Culture
- Law
- Economics

Chapter 2. Scientific components of animal welfare

The body
- Health
- Stress
- Adaptive abilities
Behavior
- Behavioral needs
- Abnormal behavior
The mind
- Sentience
- Affective states
- Motivation
- Cognition
Learning
- Associative learning
  - Classical conditioning
  - Operant conditioning
- Non-associative learning
- Complex learning

Chapter 3. Sociological components of animal welfare

Ethical thought applied to animals
- Deontology
  - Natural law theory
  - Divine command theory
  - Animal rights theory
- Consequentialism (teleology)
  - Egoism
  - Group consequentialism
  - Utilitarianism
- Virtue
- Contractarianism
- Relationalism
- Capabilities
Frameworks for ethical decision-making
Impact of history and tradition
- History and tradition
- Attitudes and beliefs
  - Religion
    - Atheism and humanism
    - Buddhism
    - Christianity
    - Hinduism
    - Islam
    - Judaism
  - Culture
    - Philosopher and ethicist
    - Scientist
    - Animal producer/owner
    - The public
  - Cognitive dissonance
- Human-animal interaction
Impact of outside forces
- Legislation, regulations, and treaties
- Economics and market forces
- Compliance and assurance programs
- The media and social media

Chapter 4. Assessing animal welfare

Animal welfare assessment programs
- Input- or resource-based parameters (engineering standards)
- Outcome- or animal-based parameters (performance standards)
- Combination of parameters
Human-related factors affecting assessments
- Opinions
- Training
- Records
Individual and population-based approaches
Risk assessment

Chapter 5 – Role of veterinarians in animal welfare

The veterinary profession’s role in animal welfare
- Legal oversight of the profession
- Professional policies and ethics relating to animal welfare
- Professional organizations
  - National veterinary organizations
  - State and local veterinary organizations
  - Professional practice-related organizations
Veterinary colleges
- Student education
- Institutional use of animals
Individual veterinarians
- Duty of care
- Client education
- Remaining current
- Compassion fatigue
- Differentiating personal from professional views
- Communication and mediating diverse views

Section 2 – Species-related issues in animal welfare

Chapter 6 - Multi-species welfare issues

Issues with housing
- Confinement housing
  - Environmental enrichment
  - Environmental control
  - Environmental quality
Management and handling
- Appropriate handling and training techniques
- Transport
- Non-therapeutic procedures
  - Cosmetic procedures
  - Performance enhancing
- Painful procedures
  - Tail alterations
  - Castration
  - Identification
  - Electroimmobilization
Welfare aspects of working animals
Implications of genetics for welfare
- Intentional and responsible breeding
- CRISPR-Cas9
- Xenotransplantation
End of life issues
- Euthanasia
- Culling
- Depopulation
- Slaughter
- Pest control

Chapter 7 - Aquatic animal welfare issues

Pain perception
Captive ownership of aquatic animals
- Aquaria
  - Marine mammals
  - Other aquatic species
  - Transport and handling stress
- Performing animals
- Farm-raised
- Transport and handling stress
Free-living aquatic species
- Finfish
- Other aquatic species

Chapter 8 - Companion animal welfare issues

Issues with housing
- Hoarding
Issues in transport
Management and handling
- Impact of anthropomorphism
- Cosmetic procedures
- Coloring and dying
- Obesity
- Training
  - Types of collars
Genetic and welfare
- Uncontrolled breeding

Chapter 9 – Equine welfare issues

Welfare challenges related to type of use
- Doping
- Issues with housing
- Issues in transport
- The show horse industry
  - Non-therapeutic procedures, performance enhancing
    - Soring
    - Other procedures
  - Abusive equipment
  - Popularity of futurities
  - Eventing
  - Horse show fads
  - Associated stressors
- The horse racing industry
  - Traditional racing events
    - Musculoskeletal injuries
    - Equipment
  - Bush tracks
  - Chuckwagon racing
  - Wild horse racing
- Working and competitive horses
  - Gymkhana horses
  - Endurance competition
  - Polo horses
  - Rodeo horses
  - Carriage horses
  - Police horses
- Horses not used in competition
  - Production of biological products
Unwanted horses
- Repurposing animals
- Federally owned horses
- Free-ranging horses
Donkey welfare issues
- Donkey skins

Chapter 10 - Laboratory animal welfare issues

Issues with housing
- Enrichment
Issues with transport
Use in research
- Researcher training
- Nonhuman primates used in research
- Reproducibility of research
- Repurposing animals
- Humane endpoints

Chapter 11 - Livestock welfare issues

Efficient vs effective livestock handling
Livestock transport
Cattle welfare issues
- Issues with housing
  - Stress due to temperature extremes
- Issues in transport
- Management and handling
  - Dairy calf management
  - Feedlot cattle management
  - Mixing of unfamiliar animals
  - Lameness
  - Longevity of dairy cows
- Painful and cosmetic procedures
  - Cosmetic procedures
    - Air injection
    - Disbudding and dehorning
  - Claw trimming
  - Ovariectomy
- Religious slaughter
- Cattle used in sports
  - Rodeo events using cattle
Poultry welfare issues
- Issues with housing
- Issues in transport
- Killing male layer chicks
- Beak trimming (debeaking)
- Dubbing and dewattling
- Induced (forced) molting
- Foie gras production
- Toe trimming
Sheep and goat welfare issues
- Mulesing
- Issues in transport
Swine welfare issues
- Issues with housing
- Issues in transport
- Management and handling
  - Problem behaviors
    - Tail biting

Chapter 12 - Wildlife animal welfare issues

Captive ownership of wild/exotic animals
- Hoofstock
- Exhibition animals
  - Zoos
  - Private collections
  - Excess animals
- Exotic pets
  - Appropriate care
  - Unwanted animals
Human-wildlife interface
- Deforestation
- Climate change

Bonnie Beaver

Professor, BS, DVM, MS, DACVB Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

Gail Golab

BS, PhD, DVM, MANZCVS, DPNAP, DACAW: Dr. Gail Golab is board-certificated in the Animal Welfare Chapter of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists and a Charter Diplomate of the American College of Animal Welfare.

Codice Articolo: ETOLO119
ISBN: 9780323910187
Peso: 700 g
Area: Tutte le specie
Disciplina: Medicina comportamentale
IVA: Esente IVA