Dr. Harlander Flashcards
What is the difference in cats
Indoor cats: viewed more regularly, problems reported later
Outdoor cats: viewed infrequently, problems addressed right away
These cats have the same welfare the only difference is on human care.
The 3 elements of animal welfare debate?
- Science: the effects of humans on the animal from the animal’s perspective
- Ethics: the humans action towards the animal
- Laws (or Codes of Practice): result of science and ethics dictating how humans must treat animals
What is the difference between a conventional and an enriched cage?
An enriched cage has enrichment, entertainment fro the animal. Ball, chains, hay to nest with, etc…
What is the difference between free run and free range?
Free run: larger space but no access to outside
Free range: access to the outside
Where are chicken ancestors from?
Jungle in Asia
What are the 3 criteria for animal welfare?
- Physical
- Mental
- Natural
What areas were included in the Family Pen System for Pig Production?
- Manure area
- Rooting area
- Activity area
- Nesting area
- Individual sow feeding stalls
How do gestation stalls affect welfare?
Natural: no room for oral or social behavior
Physical: no room to move, ulcers, bar biting injuries
Mental: Little control over environment, frustration, pain, apathy
Physical as a criteria for animal welfare includes
ensure good physical health, condition, and functioning of animals
Mental as a criteria for animal welfare includes
minimize unpleasant “affective states” (pain, fear, ect…) and allow animals normal pleasures
Natural as a criteria for animal welfare includes
species-specific behavior and behavior that they are motivated to perform
What are the 5 freedoms?
- Freedom from HUNGER AND THIRST
- Freedom from DISCOMFORT
- Freedom from PAIN, INJURY AND DISEASE
- Freedom from FEAR AND DISTRESS
- Freedom to EXPRESS NORMAL BEHAVIOR
Affective State
In pain or distress
Emotions
a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one’s circumstances, mood, or relationships with others
Sensory pleasure
Pleasures that apply to the senses; eating, petting, ect
Pleasure
a feeling of happy satisfaction and enjoyment
Mood
a temporary state of mind or feeling
Suffering
the state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship
What is the difference between pleasure and emotion?
Emotions do not need a stimulus whereas pleasure requires a stimulus
What is the welfare concern with death?
Death is not a welfare concern but an inhumane death IS a welfare concern
What is the main difference between using live traps and snap traps for rats according to animal welfare?
How often the traps are checked
What is critical anthropomorphism?
a perspective in the study of animal behavior that encompasses using the sentience of the observer to generate hypotheses in light of scientific knowledge of the species, its perceptual world, and ecological and evolutionary history.
Self-consciousness
subject awareness of itself
Phenomenal consciousness
- sentience
- what is it like to see a colour or hear a sound?
What are the 3 welfare outputs?
- behavior
- physiology
- clinical health; production
What are the 4 areas of study fro behavior?
- Function
- Causation
- Ontogeny
- Evolution
What are the 4 quantitative behavioral assessments?
- Frequency
- Duration
- Latency
- Number of animals showing a behavior
What is the difference between inelastic demand and elastic demand
Inelastic demand: willing to sacrifice more (more motivated, ie food)
Elastic demand: not willing to sacrifice as much
Allostasis
maintaining homeostasis
What are the 3 physiological pathways?
- Neural axes: stress response via neural innervation of target organs
- sympathetic nervous system
- parasympathetic activation
- neuromuscular - Neuroendocrine: fight-or-flight response
- Endocrine axis: most chronic aspects of the stress response, greater intensity to activate
Glucocorticoids
The main glucocorticoids involved in regulation of stress responses is species specific
What is disease?
any deviation from or interruption of the normal structure or function of any part, organ, or system, of the body. Shown by symptoms.
What are the 10 behaviors that can be exhibited when an animal is sick?
- anorexia
- adipsia
- lethargy
- anhedonia
- hyperalgesia
- social withdrawal
- reduced grooming
- increased slow-wave sleep
- impaired learning/memory
- decreased libito
what is welfare input?
resource based measures
What is welfare output?
outcome-based measures
what are the 3 welfare input categories?
- Management/caretaker
- environmental, housing, food, ect
- animal genetic, early life experience
