Assigning Degrees of Ease or Difficulty for Pet Animal Maintenance: The EMODE System Concept
| Autor: | Catrina Steedman, Mike Jessop, Elaine Toland, Samantha Lindley, Clifford Warwick |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Class (computer programming)
History business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Five freedoms Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Tier 1 network Layperson Risk analysis (engineering) Environmental Science(all) Tier 2 network Animal welfare Perception Medicine Environmental Chemistry business Social psychology Welfare General Environmental Science media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. 27(1):87-101 |
| ISSN: | 1187-7863 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10806-013-9455-x |
| Popis: | Pet animal management is subject to varied husbandry practices and the resulting consequences often impact negatively on animal welfare. The perceptions held by someone who proposes to keep an animal regarding the ease or difficulty with which its biological needs can be provided for in captivity are key factors in whether that animal is acquired and how well or poorly it does. We propose a system to 'score' animals and assign them to categories indicating the ease or difficulty with which they can be kept as pets in accordance with welfare and public health and safety considerations. The 'EMODE' ('Easy', 'Moderate', 'Difficult', 'Extreme') system has two fundamental components: animal welfare—which considers the 'five freedoms' principles; and public health and safety—which considers management associated with risks from disease or injury to the keeper and to others. EMODE incorporates two tiers of assessment and guidance, and may offer a reasonable guide for the majority of relevant animals. EMODE Tier 1 provides a primary and general assessment of animals by class or group, and EMODE Tier 2 provides a secondary refined assessment of animals by species or breed. EMODE offers a user-friendly and versatile foundation concept for the future development of guidance for the layperson who may be considering acquiring a pet or for certain personnel when considering assigning species to restrictive lists of suitable animals |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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