Animal Welfare Worldwide, the Opinion of Practicing Veterinarians

N Endenburg; G Takashima; H A van Lith; H Bacon; S J Hazel; R Jouppi; N Y P Lee; K Seksel; S Ryan

doi:10.1080/10888705.2020.1717340

Animal Welfare Worldwide, the Opinion of Practicing Veterinarians

N Endenburg
, G Takashima
, H A van Lith
, H Bacon
, S J Hazel
, R Jouppi
, N Y P Lee
, K Seksel
, S Ryan

AISS Human Animal Relations./One Welfare

Animal Care Group of Lake Oswego, Lake Oswego, OR, USA.
The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, The University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Veterinary Centre, Midlothian, UK.
University of Adelaide
Wild at Heart - Wildlife Refuge Center, Lively, Canada.
Asia Animal Happiness Consultancy, Selangor, Malaysia.
Sydney Animal Behaviour Service, Seaford, Australia.
Companion Animal Surgery Pte. Ltd, Singapore.

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Abstract

The objective of this study was to investigate the animal welfare issues considered the most important by companion animal veterinarians worldwide. For this purpose, a global survey of several potential animal welfare issues was distributed via SurveyMonkey® in multiple languages. The distribution of survey responses differed by region. The main animal welfare concern reported worldwide was obesity, although there were differences across regions, possibly due to cultural and socioeconomic factors. Anthropomorphism (attributing human qualities or characteristics to an animal) was an issue in western countries but less so in Asia, Africa, and Oceania. There were significant differences between Asia and Europe, Africa, and Oceania in the importance and prevalence of convenience euthanasia. There were also age and sex differences in participant responses, with older veterinarians reporting fewer welfare problems than younger veterinarians, and female veterinarians reporting more welfare issues than their male counterparts.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	215-237
Number of pages	23
Journal	Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Volume	24
Issue number	3
Early online date	28 Jan 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10888705.2020.1717340
Publication status	Published - 23 Jun 2021

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge the financial support of the Animal Welfare Guidelines Group by Waltham®. The authors are also grateful to the two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments on the manuscript, which has undoubtedly helped the authors to improve the article.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

Animal welfare
geographic regions
global
veterinarians

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