Animal welfare and wild horses

Question 1

Ways to prepare for animal transport

Answer 1

Feedlot prior to boarding (sheep)

Question 2

What does overabundance of horse create

Answer 2

• On the horses themselves (starvation)
• On other wild animals (competition)
• On humans (e.g. vehicle collisions)

Question 3

How can we control wild animal density

Answer 3

Reduced density
• Some wild horses remaining in the environment
• This approach has traditionally been used (e.g. NZ)

Question 4

What are the non-lethal method to control population

Answer 4

Fertility control
Capture and domestication (“rehoming”)
Fecing(not effective)

Question 5

What are the ways to managed wild horses

Answer 5

Recreational hunting
Commercial poultry
Roping
Fertility control
trapping
Captivity
natural methods (predation)
biological method (disease but no management)

Question 6

What are the two mechanisms for fertility wild horses

Answer 6

Targeting the zona pellucida(an ovum protein)

Targeting GNrH

Question 7

What are the welfare orientations

Answer 7

The five freedom
The five domains
The harms model

Focuses on duration of suffering
Intensity of pain

Question 8

What are the concerns that animal welfare attributed from

Answer 8

Health functioning
natural living
Emotional states

Question 9

What is the Five domains

Answer 9

1.Nutrition
2. Environment
3. Health
4. Behaviour
5. Affective state
(four physical and one mental domain)

Question 10

What is the limitation of the five domains

Answer 10

• Only considered the consequences of intentional actions on target animals
• Qualitative and relies on expert opinion

Question 11

What is the harms model

Answer 11

1. Keeping domestic or captive wild animals
2. Causing deliberate harm to animals through activities such as hunting
3. Causing direct but unintended harm to animals (e.g. fencing)
4. Harming animals indirectly by disturbing ecological systems

Question 12

What are the four types of harms

Answer 12

Type 1 harms:
Keeping wild horses in captivity
Type 2 harms:
Shooting wild horses
Type 3 harms:
Trapping causes harm to non-target species that are trapped
Type 4 harms:
Ineffective population control harms native species in the same ecosystem

Question 13

What does relational ethic mean

Answer 13

it may be good for domesticated animals, but bad may be bad for wild life

Question 14

What are the main approaches the ethics

Answer 14

1. Consequentialism (shortening suffer and maximising benefits)
2. Deontology (animal rights)
3. Virtue ethics (compassion)