Animals, Volume 8, Issue 3 (March 2018) – 12 articles
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On encountering animals that appear to be suffering, we may be moved to estimate their welfare. Such an informal assessment may have merit, but will rely on our past experience, a gut reaction or an anthropomorphic estimate, all of which come with the risk of bias. A preferable approach requires a framework to ensure comparable consideration of the impact of the animal’s state from one context to another. A leading example of such a framework is David Mellor’s Five Domains model. This report describes the deliberations of a 4-day workshop that assessed the adverse welfare impacts of interventions across a range of 14 different contexts including husbandry, veterinary care and training. Using an adaptation of the domain-based welfare assessment model, a panel of 16 horse welfare professionals assessed perceived harm associated with 116 interventions commonly applied to horses and
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