Module 9

Question 1

humane killing of an animal for its own benefit

Answer 1

euthanasia

Question 2

killing of animals intended for human consumption

Answer 2

Slaughter

Question 3

killing by using a method that causes rapid and irreversible loss of consciousness with minimum pain and distress to the animal

Answer 3

humane killing

Question 4

Common individual animals humanely killed

Answer 4

1. severely injured animals
2. aggressive animal
3. aged animals

Question 5

Common examples of humane killing of multiple animals

Answer 5

1. killed by animal shelters
2. planned population control
3. killed by law
4. killed because they have little or no market value

Question 6

Criteria for good death or ideal humane killing method

Answer 6

1. Rapid loss of consciousness
2. Safety of personnel
3. Feasibility
4. Aesthetic considerations for the operator and others
5. Method of euthanasia should not make the animal’s body a risk to other animals or humans

Question 7

a barbiturate used as anesthetics in low doses but depress the respiratory and cardiac center leads to death by anoxia in high doses

Answer 7

Sodium pentobarbital

Question 8

Administration of sodium pentobarbital recommended if vein is not accessible

Answer 8

Intraperitoneal pentobarbital

Question 9

Signs of effective stunning

Answer 9

1. Animal collapses
2. Gasping and gagging reflexes, but no rhythmic breathing or vocalisations
3. No corneal reflex
4. Fixed, fully dilated pupil
5. Relaxed jaw
6. Tongue hanging out
7. Body hangs straight down  there is no arching of the back or struggling;
8. the legs may move

Question 10

Signs of death from a free bullet

Answer 10

1. Animal collapses immediately
2. No rhythmic breathing
3. No corneal reflex
4. Twitching and convulsions may start shortly afterwards

Question 11

Main uses of animals for entertainment

Answer 11

1. killing, which may be ritualised
2. performing
3. zoos
4. tourism

Question 12

Use of horses as entertainment

Answer 12

racing, hunting, dressage,
show-jumping, eventing, rodeos

Question 13

concern our obligations to animals either by virtue of them having intrinsic value

Answer 13

Obligation-based or deontological frameworks

Question 14

concerned with the effects of our actions on us and other human beings, on animals, and on the species or ecosystem as a whole

Answer 14

Consequentialist frameworks

Question 15

means that when the animal does something we do not want, we do something unpleasant to him/her

Answer 15

Punishment-based training

Question 16

A reward where we remove something unpleasant for the animal

Answer 16

negative reward

Question 17

Type of reward with giving the animal something pleasant, e.g. food, a toy, touch

Answer 17

positive reward

Question 18

Enumerate some of the performances animals are used for entertainment

Answer 18

1. Dancing bears
2. Marine animals
3. Circuses
4. Fiestas / rodeos
5. Horses: racing, jumping, dressage, etc.
6. Dogs: racing

Question 19

Examples of breeds within which there has been selective breeding for aggression

Answer 19

1. pit-bull terrier
2. Japanese Tosa
3. DogoArgentino
4. Fila Brasileiro.

Question 20

a highly ritualized fight to the death between a bull and a human, called a matador

Answer 20

bullfighting